Jerred Endsley, LCSW, is an evidence-based psychotherapist, Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, meditation instructor, clinical researcher, and certified Reiki Master. He began practicing mindfulness at a young age and has spent his career translating contemplative wisdom into practical, evidence-based care for anxiety, trauma, grief, perfectionism, and serious mental illness. Jerred earned his BA in Psychology from Purdue University and his MSW from Boston College. He completed a two-year post-graduate clinical fellowship with a Harvard Medical School affiliate, where he provided CBT and DBT in intensive settings, supervised psychiatry and psychology trainees, and contributed to research on cognitive remediation and recovery-oriented care with Harvard Psychiatry. He was honored by trainees and faculty for teaching and supervision excellence.

After relocating to Colorado, Jerred worked with incarcerated youth and then joined the Veterans Affairs Western Colorado Health Care System. As Local Recovery Coordinator, he developed recovery-oriented services, implemented DBT group therapy, created mindfulness and nature-based programs for staff and Veterans, and convened multi-state education summits. He has presented widely on mindfulness, self-compassion, clinician well-being, psychosis-informed care, non-ordinary states and trauma-responsive practice for national VA programs, regional partners, Grand Valley Yogafest, and community organizations.

Jerred founded Mountain Mindfulness Psychotherapy & Holistic Healing in Grand Junction, Colorado, a solo practice dedicated to careful, compassionate, and practical psychotherapy. His clinical work integrates mindfulness and compassion-based approaches with CBT, DBT-informed skills, ACT, and recovery-oriented care. He offers mindfulness instruction for individuals and groups, nature-based interventions, and psychedelic harm-reduction and integration, with education aligned to Colorado’s legal framework. He is also engaged in advanced facilitator training to deepen safe, ethical work at the intersection of contemplative practice & natural medicine.

In higher education, Jerred served as Interim BSW Program Director and Assistant Professor at Colorado Mesa University, guiding accreditation processes, mentoring faculty and students, and teaching ethics, research, clinical skills, macro practice, group interventions, mindfulness, and mental health. Across settings, his approach is the same: grounded science, contemplative insight, and a commitment to human dignity & compassion.

At the heart of Jerred’s approach is a direct-path understanding of consciousness. He points clients toward the simple fact of awareness that is already present, the still peaceful background that notices thoughts, sensations, and emotions without being defined by them. From this ground, he teaches practices that reduce reactivity and increase freedom, weaving contemplative traditions with evidence-based care. His guiding conviction is that within every person there is a seed of light that cannot be damaged, and that healing grows as we recognize this and relate to experience with compassion and truthfulness.

Jerred emphasizes that compassion is both nurturing and fierce, that peace is our natural state when resistance relaxes, and that within each person is a seed of light that cannot be damaged. His work invites people to look within, settle the body and mind, see clearly, and live from values with steadiness & care