Dr Dietrich completed Dr Andrew Weil’s Integrative Medicine Fellowship in 2010 and the Integrative Health Coaching Program in 2016 at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, (now the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine). Janet was in the first group of health coaches to be recognized as certified by the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching in 2017.

Janet’s personal mindfulness meditation practice has spanned seventeen years. Her rigorous professional training began in 2012 through the Center for Mindfulness, founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn at UMass Medical School in 1979. She has been teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) since 2017. Janet attained Teacher Certification in MBSR through the Mindfulness Center, Brown University-School of Public Health in 2020. Additionally, Thich Nhat Hanh influences her understanding of mindfulness. She attended silent retreats lead by him in 2003 and 2007 and stayed at his Plum Village monastery in France for a week in 2018.

In 2015-2017, Janet was one of four teachers for the “Mindfulness Practices for Stress Reduction” program for health care professionals in Billings. This program offered six hour-long sessions taught as part of a federal DE-STRESS grant through Yellowstone County “Healthy by Design”. Janet also presented on mindfulness at the Montana Osteopathic Medical Association annual meeting (2013), medical grand rounds at St Vincent Healthcare (2018) and Billings Clinic (2017), Montana Judges’ Association Conference (2017) and Courts of Limited Jurisdiction (2018) as well as Rocky Mountain College’s Wheatley Lectures (2019).

Hiking, skiing and snowshoeing, visiting art galleries, enjoying a fire in the fireplace and baking cookies largely define Janet’s idea of a good time with her family and friends.