Towards Radical Holistic Wellness

As a mental health specialist with over twenty years of experience, Dr. Celestial is committed to helping high-achieving women of color nurture healthier relationships with themselves, their families, their communities, and the Earth. Her work focuses on healing trauma holistically–body, mind, and spirit. Dr. Celestial believes in our innate power to recover from distress and to embody joy and love. She is a gifted healer, bearing witness with intuitively-guided compassion to her clients’ transforming and becoming.

Dr. Jeannie Celestial is a licensed psychologist, consultant, and best-selling author.

Offering support & expertise in a multitude of ways.

Dr. Celestial’s
latest publications

Passionate about culture as a key vehicle for holistic wellness, Dr. Jeannie Celestial is one of the best-selling authors of The Filipino Instant Pot Cookbook. Along with Drs. Jan Estrellado & Lou Felipe, Dr. Celestial co-edited and co-authored Clinical Interventions for Internalized Oppression (Cognella, 2022)”.

Dr. Celestial
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  • Leny Mendoza Strobel, Ed.D

    "Jeannie integrates Kapwa psychology in her healing work. One of the most important aspects of the therapeutic relationship with diasporic Filipinos is the need to decolonize and reframe so many of the received narratives about identity and belonging. Jeannie walks her talk, so to speak, and I am proud and grateful that she does."

    Leny Mendoza Strobel, Ed.D
    Founding Elder, Center for Babaylan Studies
    Professor Emerita, American Multicultural Studies, Sonoma State University

  • Kendra F. Dunlap, LMFT

    "Jeannie E. Celestial is a thoughtful, experienced, and compassionate psychotherapist who offers her authentic self to those she serves. She believes in the intrinsic power of cultural, ancestral, and spiritual healing and incorporates this in her work, inviting people to bring the whole of who they are into the therapeutic relationship."

    Kendra F. Dunlap, LMFT
    Soul Harmony Psychotherapy

  • Jennifer Alcalde, Mentee

    "I first met Dr. Jeannie in 2016 at a Filipinx American student conference at UC Berkeley where she presented a workshop on the Filipinx identity and spirituality. Her talk shed light on parent-child dynamics and intergenerational trauma, which helped solidify my desire to pursue a career in mental health. Since then, Dr. Jeannie has been a mentor to me. She recognizes students as whole people with intersecting identities, which helps me feel seen and validated."

    Jennifer Alcalde, Mentee
    Clinical Psychology Graduate Student

  • Maria Hy

    “The pandemic and reaching a milestone birthday raised many existential questions for me. With Dr. Jeannie Celestial’s gentle consultation and guidance, we explored my emotions and past experiences as a child of Vietnamese refugees. She helped me make connections between growing up in my parents' Chinese restaurant and my current work style in medicine. Most importantly, I felt seen with compassion, the various facets of me: the good parts, the flawed parts, and the parts in progress.”

    Maria Hy, M.D.
    Obstetrician-Gynecologist