Jeanne Marie Ketchel, CSW
Jeanne M. Ketchel, (1954-2001) was a psychotherapist who practiced individually and conjointly with her husband, Chuck, until her death in 2001. Jeanne received her master’s degree from Hunter College School of Social Work. Her early career was as a therapist treating children in school health programs for private and parochial schools in Stamford, Connecticut. She later directed a preschool program for children with special needs in Amenia, New York. As a therapist in private practice she continued to specialize in the treatment of children, using the projective technique of play and sand tray therapy to help children access their unknown selves in problem resolution.
Jeanne had a first-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, which she taught to children and adults. A lifelong dancer and classically trained in ballet, Jeanne possessed advanced choreographic skills and visceral learning, which enabled her to instantly master long series of body movements in the Magical Passes of Carlos Castaneda, which she practiced for seven years, until her death.
After her diagnosis with cancer in 1994, Jeanne assumed total responsibility for her own healing. This conviction sent her on many adventures throughout the world, as well as beyond this world, as she began to experience her self-awareness apart from her physical body. Ultimately, her healing required that she die, leaving her body to begin her new life as an energy body, in infinity, still deeply connected to this world. Since her death the evolved Jeanne Marie Ketchel, together with other members of her soul group in infinity, has been engaged in the mission of awakening the inner spirit in humans on earth. She has three children with Chuck in this world.
Chuck Ketchel, LCSW
Chuck Ketchel, a licensed Clinical Social Worker has practiced as a psychotherapist since 1984 and is certified in EMDR therapy and hypnotherapy. He studied at Hunter College School of Social Work where he received a master’s degree. His earliest mentor was Dr. Efren Ramirez who recommended Chuck, in 1972, as a trainer for drug counselors at the Training for Living Institute in NYC right after graduating from high school, and where he worked until the program lost funding due to the fiscal crisis in New York City in 1975. Dr. Ramirez had been his therapist and was the first to introduce him to existential psychology, Carl Jung, and Carlos Castaneda. Chuck and his wife Jeanne, also a psychotherapist, practiced marital therapy jointly until shortly before her death in 2001. They also trained professionals in marital treatment therapies and conducted seminars for couples wishing to tackle the deeper challenges in marriage, to achieve real intimacy and partnership. Chuck has also trained professionals in the use of active imagination and EMDR as therapy treatments. He is a first-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and has practiced the Magical Passes of Tensegrity under the tutelage of Carlos Castaneda, his cohorts, and apprentices since 1995.
Chuck’s major treatment specialty is in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), where he leads his patients through the healing process of recovering and integrating dissociated parts of themselves as they journey to wholeness. Among other techniques, Chuck utilizes active imagination, conscious dreaming, EMDR, hypnosis, and Recapitulation Therapy to help his patients contact and face their lost selves. Through his work with PTSD Chuck has learned that dissociation experiences, through trauma, have the secondary value of teaching people how to have out of body experiences; that is, to access their energy body, which opens the gateway to infinity. For patients inclined to explore their evolutionary potential, this is a goldmine. Chuck and Jeanne always pondered and explored infinity throughout their thirty-year relationship. After Jeanne was diagnosed with cancer, in addition to exploring alternative cancer treatments throughout the world, they became interested in further exploration of out of body experiences in preparation for Jeanne’s entrance into infinity. Chuck lives and practices in New York’s Hudson River Valley with his wife, Jan. They share the joy of loving, respecting, and launching the three children he and Jeanne brought into this world and Jan’s two children from a previous marriage, as all five of them grow and evolve, taking their own journeys.
Jan Ketchel, CH
Jan Ketchel, a certified consulting hypnotist, is also an artist and writer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. In the early 1970s, working under her maiden name, Hughes, she illustrated children’s books for G. P. Putnam’s Sons Publishers in New York City, then moved to Stockholm, Sweden where she lived for six years. While there she traveled, learned to speak fluent Swedish, and worked as a freelance artist for magazine and book publishers.
Upon returning to New York City, her freelance illustration career continued in the publishing and advertising fields as she contracted with such companies as Scholastic Books, Parent’s Magazine Press, and on national advertising campaigns for American Express, Pepperidge Farm, and Lever Bros., among others. Eventually, she went into book editing and production, working for Matthew Bender and Applause Theatre Books. She also wrote and illustrated Noah and the Ark, a children’s book that was published in 1986. She has written articles for local publications and worked as a publicity writer for individual businesses, artists and arts organizations. For many years she ran a studio and gallery, and had a business painting children’s furniture, faux finishes and murals. Her own artwork, in private collections world wide, has continually evolved to the point of abstraction, and has been shown locally, nationally, and internationally in both solo and group shows.
In 2002, a few months after Jeanne Ketchel’s death, Jan began receiving personal messages of guidance from her. Jeanne appeared to her in holographic like visions, dreams, and channeled messages that Jan documented and embraced as guidance during a time of change in her own life. As the messages changed, from very personal and specific ones to more universal guidance, it became clear that Jeanne had a mission. Jan made the decision to become involved in the mission of Jeanne Marie Ketchel, to awaken the sleeping spirit in all of us, and has unwaveringly documented and passed on what she has learned. To assist in this endeavor, Jan certified as a consulting hypnotist and entered into clinical practice with her husband, Chuck. Jan and Chuck share the joy of loving, respecting, and launching the three children he and Jeanne brought into this world and Jan’s two children from a previous marriage, as all five of them grow and evolve, taking their own journeys.