Dr. Jessica Plancich Shinners, MA, LMFT, Ed.D.

Jessica is a social architect, community builder, and leadership expert who teaches leaders and organizations how to operate at their highest potential and resiliency by truly serving people, planet, purpose, and profit.

With a Master’s in clinical psychology, a doctorate in Organizational Leadership (Ed.D. Pepperdine University), and 25-year psychotherapy practice, she applies a whole human approach to consulting that nurtures body, mind, and spirit so the wisdom of the heart can be awakened. After years of witnessing the limitations of Western psychology, Jessica sought training in Eastern approaches to healing and wellness. With certifications as a yoga and qi gong instructor and massage therapist, she utilizes a holistic and somatic approach to her work. 

After over a decade of service in community mental health, she began being asked to apply these principles to organizations and sought a doctorate in organizational leadership from Pepperdine University and rigorously researched the art and science of advancing leadership consciousness. The outcomes from this study have become the underpinning of her work with organizational leaders and the missions they serve from the inside out.

In following the pursuit of advancing awareness, she recently sought certification through Vancouver Island University to become a psychedelic-assisted therapist and practicum training through the esteemed Roots to Thrive program in British Columbia. She is closely allied with inter-disciplinary experts who are embarking into the psychedelic reawakening with great care and integrity as a tool to support some of the most challenging socio-emotional and mental health challenges we face today.

Her penchant for social entrepreneurialism has led Jessica to consult for nonprofits, grassroots movements, start-ups, major corporations, and their leaders, helping align them with their core values and serve the greater good. The co-founder of an eco-village in San Diego, CA (theemeraldvillage.com), she is steeped in collaborative thinking and decision making, incorporating what she has lived, learned, and tested herself. The reclamation of our communities at the local level, she believes, is the solution to the panoply of problems we find ourselves in – ecologically, economically, and socio-politically.  

Jessica has had the honor of learning from countless teachers- whether clients, mentors, professors, or guides. She humbly recognizes that so many of the healing traditions she has studied were gifts given from native people with an unencumbered connection to creation. Jessica strives to deeply embody and pay homage to their wisdom by passing it on to her clients.