ABOUT

ABOUT

 

🌱 BIO

Hi, I’m Jo-e Sutton.

I’m a Board-Certified Holistic Health Counselor, educator, and author. My work is rooted in helping people navigate the complex intersections of physical health, emotional life, relationships, spiritual foundations, as well as finding joy, meaning, and peace in the small, daily habits that shape our lives.

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I don’t just come to this work through training, I come to it through lived experience. I’ve heard of this idea of emotional math… When we share love, it multiplies. When we share pain, it divides. I believe in a personal approach to growth. 

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Over the years, I’ve supported individuals and families through chronic illness, mental health challenges, neurodivergence, addiction, and the often, invisible strain of caregiving. My own life has required me to develop a deep capacity for compassion, resilience, curiosity, and most importantly, self-care, especially as the mother of a son who has experienced severe neurodivergence and brain metabolic disorders.

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I’ve spent decades walking alongside others in recovery spaces, including, and more importantly, my own.

For more than 25 years, I’ve been an active participant in Al-Anon, a path that has profoundly shaped my understanding of boundaries, self-responsibility, and the importance of loving without losing oneself. This remains a daily, often moment to moment practice that informs how I live my own life and support my clients.

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👩🏻‍⚕️PROFESSIONALLY

Professionally, I am a certified holistic health counselor, trained through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City, in partnership with Teachers College, Columbia University. With advanced immersion studies in health coaching and personal transformation and decades of personal experience. I also have master’s level studies in Traditional Oriental Medicine from Emperor’s College in Santa Monica, California.

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👩🏻‍🏫As a trained NAMI Family-to-Family educator, I teach and support other family members who are navigating the complexities of loving someone with neuro-divergence (aka... mental health conditions.) I have participated in the ground breaking use of treating mental health conditions as brain metabolic disorders, using the ketogenic diet.

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I have decades of experience in linguistics, transformational technologies, sociology, meditation, shadow work, mindfulness, tai chi, nutrition, herbology, and hands on, intimate connections with thousands of humans from every walk of life. 

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☯️In my private practice, I take a whole-person approach. I support clients through nourishment, nervous system regulation, emotional patterns, communication, relationships, trauma, transitions, loss, grief, spiritual perspectives, and sustainable self-care.

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🧘🏻‍♀️My work is not about quick fixes or rigid protocols. It is about helping you understand your own habits, to translate your bodies communication and survival systems. Together, with techniques, frames of reference and practical applications, we practice growing a nurturing, trusting relationship with your innate wisdom to respond with mature, appropriate and dignified care.

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📚I have authored multiple eBooks, classes, and workshops on holistic health, digestion, and whole-food living, and I continue to create resources to inspire people to love their way to health.

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👭🏻 WHY THIS IS SO PERSONAL

This work is not theoretical for me.

Life has asked me, again and again, to grow deeper levels of resilience, compassion, and self-responsibility, and I continue to answer its call. I must, or I would fall into despair. Through my son’s mental health journey, my own multiple life and health challenges, my personal healing journey, and the years I've spent supporting others in recovery spaces, I have come to understand how complex, layered, and deeply human the healing process really is.

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🩸There were many times I felt stretched beyond my capacity; where my sense of stability, identity, and hope were challenged and shattered. What shattered was my will, my belief that I could control outcomes, and the bloody knees that hit the pavement when I realized I was not as strong as the river of life. I was never meant to be. What carried me through was numerous awakenings that led me to meet and remember the power beneath all of life. No matter the heat and pressure, there is something within us that remains intact. That knowing lives at the center of my work.

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🌱 HOW I WORK

🧚🏽‍♀️My work is both intuitive and practical. One of the many powerful tools, strategies and perspectives I use, is a distinction I created called DreamCrafting. It is a powerful technique to help people rewrite painful experiences and meet them with satisfying inner relief and reframing. It helps bridge the gap in relationships with people, life and circumstances. It's power lives in the inner shift in perspective to the wildly mysterious forces in life and develop peace through a growing relationship with your own inner wisdom.

 

🙏🏽My podcast and writing partner, new thought leader, Kelly Sullivan Walden, and I are co-writing the DreamCrafting book... stay tuned. In the meantime, you have access to its wisdom, through me directly. 

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🍥HUMAN DESIGN

Since 1999, I have been a Human Design Analyst, along with decades of lived experience, to support people through their own personal hero’s journey of being human. Human Design reveals the process of un-becoming our conditioned, protective patterns and inner judgments of ourselves and supports us to become our Selves.

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🧗🏻In my LEVEL-UP approach, we apply simple, sustainable perspective shifts and behaviors that gently change the ratio of effort to ease in your life. Over time, you begin to rely less on fear-based choices and conditioning and more on your inner wholeness and wisdom. As that happens, peace and presence begin to outweigh pain and performance. This ratio change is like the change in direction of a ship on water. Each inch of shift, changes the  ships trajectory entirely. 

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It is one of the greatest privileges of my life, to walk alongside my clients in this process.

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 WHO I HELP

Many people come to me through the doorway of the body, as it acts as the check engine light of our biology. Some of us can miss the gentler indicator lights that our bodies provide as communication and we only respond when the mechanism is in advanced distress. No matter where you are in your response time, I believe the body holds the wisdom and together, we sleuth the mystery of its messages and needs. Then we create a plan… I help create questions for your doctors, think outside the box for diagnostics, come up with supplemental and dietary protocol and lifestyle changes, and build on the excitement of prevention over cure. I support individuals experiencing physical manifestations of stress and imbalance, including digestive challenges such as IBS, reflux, constipation, diarrhea, colitis, and difficulty digesting life itself.

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🧭I have worked with people navigating:
   • chronic illnesses, autoimmune conditions and cancer
   • metabolic and blood sugar imbalances
   • thyroid disorders, asthma, diabetes, and skin conditions
   • neurodivergence and mental health challenges
   • caregiving stress and complex family dynamics
   • relationship struggles and self-responsibility

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🍎I also enjoy working with people who are proactively wanting to prevent or reverse preventable disease, restore balance, refine their self-care, and increase vitality, clarity, and peace. Whether you are struggling, rebuilding, or refining, personalized and compassionate care, support and accountability can make all the difference.

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✨ WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

Each client's needs are different. We meet on Zoom or phone once, twice, or four times a month, depending on needs and finances. Each person receives a totally unique protocol based on the tier of need and the aspect of life that requires immediate attention. 

 

🧱I pay attention to building a foundation that change can rest upon, with supportive diet and nutrition, hydration, exercise and sleep habits, emotional stability, connection, values and a purpose driven core.

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🚰 We work at both the deepest and most practical levels of life. This might include something as practical as what type and temperature of the water in your glass and dish to hold your supplements, and where, all the way to what drives the deeper meaning of your life and values. 

 

🕊With guidance, encouragement, and self-responsibility rooted in compassion, you begin to build a relationship with yourself that supports lasting change.

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💫 AN INVITATION

At the heart of everything I do is this:

I believe healing happens when we learn to listen to ourselves with curiosity and respond with compassion, patience, and a willingness to grow.

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If you are navigating something difficult, or simply feel ready for a deeper level of alignment in your health and life, I would be honored to support you.

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Contact me to accept my offer for a complimentary consultation so we can explore whether we are a good fit. Please take me up on it if you are so moved. I look forward to inspiring you to Love Your Way To Health.

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Warmest Reflections;
Jo-e 💕