Healing in community,
rooted in resilience
Ginkgo Way is rooted in the idea that healing happens in relationship—with each other, with our bodies & with the natural world.
This work began with people:
real stories, honest edges, shared rebuilding.
Connection started there—and it’s where we keep returning. Like the ginkgo tree, our work is resilient, adaptive, and alive. Less clinical, more human. Less about fixing, more about remembering who you are.
Ginkgo Way is a space for that kind of healing—collaborative, embodied, and rooted in lived experience. We bring together therapists, coaches, and facilitators who do the work alongside you with honesty, humor & care.
We’ve been there too—the cracks, the questions, the moments of becoming.
That’s what makes this work personal.
Crack open.
Re-root.
Grow forward.
Every family has a story of resilience.
Jill’s taught her that healing isn’t about avoiding what’s hard—it’s about learning how to stay with it.
Jill has been cracked open more than once—by family, by loss, by life. Through it all, she’s come to believe we have to feel it to heal it.
That truth shapes everything she does: how she listens, how she holds space, and how she trusts what’s real, even when it’s messy. In her work as a therapist, coach, and facilitator, she’s seen that real healing begins when we stop performing and start relating.
This is the groundwork for Ginkgo Way—and the same ground we share with those who walk this path beside us.
The People Behind the Practice
A collective of practitioners grounded in somatic, relational & nature-based approaches. Together, we offer care that evolves with the people we serve—real, embodied & human.
Jill Krush, LPC, CAS, TEP, ACS
Founder of Ginkgo Way, known for her grounded presence, direct communication, and dry humor. Jill blends trauma-informed practice with lived wisdom to create spaces that are real, relational, and restorative.
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I’ve never fit neatly into one box.
My work lives in the overlap—where therapy meets coaching, where the body meets story, where growth happens in community. After years of formal training and lived experience, I’ve learned that what matters most isn’t the title or the training—it’s connection. Presence over perfection. Process over performance.This is the work of being human, together.
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Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Certified Addictions Specialist (CAS), Board-Certified Trainer, Educator, and Practitioner (TEP) in Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy, Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), Certified Somatic Coach, Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) provider, EMDR Level II, and Pilates Instructor.
Shawn Krush
Available for individual NARM coaching sessions and 1–3 day wilderness intensives
Recovery coach, outdoor educator & guide. Known for his calm presence and deep respect for nature’s wisdom, Shawn helps people reconnect to themselves through the healing rhythms of the natural world.
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I’ve spent most of my life outdoors — teaching, guiding, and learning what it means to listen to the land.
My work bridges wilderness and recovery, drawing from the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) and the principles of 12-Step practice.
Whether standing in a river with a fly rod or sitting in quiet reflection, I’ve seen how nature mirrors the process of healing: steady, honest, and alive. I blend mindfulness, movement, and trauma-informed care to help people rediscover trust in themselves, cultivate emotional and spiritual grounding, and find sustainable freedom in recovery.
At its core, my approach is simple — meet people where they are, honor their story, and let nature do what it does best: bring us back into relationship with what’s real.
Gabriel Krush
Recovery coach and operations partner. Gabriel brings a grounded, steady presence shaped by his own recovery work and more than a decade across helping and healing environments.
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For years, I’ve worked at the intersection of operational clarity, radical hospitality, and behavioral principles. My experience spans a wide range of recovery settings, and the throughline is simple: people need structures that support who they’re becoming.
With the support of my recovery coaching certification, I help individuals strengthen both the inner and outer frameworks that allow them to thrive in a world that’s always shifting.
Our work is collaborative by design.
We grow through relationship—within our team, with our partners & through the communities we serve.
We often co-create retreats, trainings, and projects with trusted colleagues who share a commitment to embodied, relational work. Each collaboration expands what’s possible and deepens our shared practice of collective care.
Healing multiplies when it’s held together.
The words of Mary Oliver remind us
to pay attention, to be astonished
& to tell about it.
They shape how we work—with curiosity, reverence & a steady respect for what’s real.
In every session or retreat, that same invitation is alive:
to slow down, notice what’s true & let awareness become its own kind of healing.