About Jen
Jen Berlingo (she/her) is a life coach, facilitator, and best-selling + award-winning author. She serves as a steadfast guide for clients worldwide as they move through profound transitions. Jen is also a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Colorado, a Nationally Registered Art Therapist (ATR), and a master-level Reiki practitioner.
She earned her master’s degree in transpersonal counseling psychology and art therapy from Naropa University, a Buddhist-oriented school for experiential and contemplative education. She has used coaching, transpersonal counseling, art psychotherapy, energy work, ceremony, and ritual to support people in becoming their most authentic, sovereign selves. Through her private practice, groups, and online programs, Jen has midwifed hundreds of clients through life’s turning points, as they rebirth and reparent themselves into more fully expressed, whole beings. Jen invites the often inconvenient, raw truth to come forward in service of alchemizing shame into self-compassion, creating genuine and deep connections, and summoning the courage to claim so much more.
Beyond guiding people through cathartic metamorphoses and quests for true alignment, Jen experienced her own transformative passage in her forties, where she was able to expand more fully into her queer identity. Through this journey, Jen became inspired to create a suite of offerings and write a book (buy your copy here) to accompany women needing fortitude when traversing the often fiery midlife portal.
Upon its publication, Midlife Emergence reached #1 in several Amazon categories, including midlife management, divorce, LGBTQ+ memoirs, LGBTQ+ parenting and families, adulthood and aging, and self-help, and won first place in the Spring 2024 BookFest awards in three categories: LGBTQ+, personal memoirs, and transformational self-help. The book was also named a finalist in the 18th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards in the Non-fiction LGBTQ+ category.
In addition to her longstanding healing work, Jen runs a successful online shop. There, she sells the oracle deck she created and self-published in 2016, the SoulSpace Oracle. She also channels custom soul essence portraits, painting commissions, and art prints for collectors worldwide. Jen shows her fluid, abstract art in her beloved town of Boulder, Colorado. There, among the sunny foothills, she can be found making bottomless bowls of popcorn and snuggling on the couch with her unconventional family, her coven of close friends, and her chatty rescue kitties, Jinx and Juju.
Credentials & Trainings
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Colorado
Master-level Reiki practitioner and teacher in the Usui tradition, Takata Lineage. Attuned: 2003
Hakomi practitioner, professional training in a body-centered, mindfulness-oriented psychotherapy practice
The Coaching Way with Tara Mohr, professional training in using a coaching approach to enhance personal growth work
Enneagram trainings from CP Enneagram Academy and the Open Heart Project with Susan Piver
Energy anatomy + the chakra system in-person training with Caroline Myss, 1999
Tarot training with Bakara Wintner via Everyday Magic University
Courting Your Medicine - 4 month deep-dive into nature-based ceremony and soul-work in the lineage of Bill Plotkin and the Animus Valley Institute. Participant in 2017, Teaching assistant 2019
Master of Arts, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and Art Therapy from Naropa University, 2005
Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, major in Communication Studies; minor in Gender Studies (psychology/sociology) from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 1996
