About Jane

C. G. Jung wrote that the deepest aim of his work was not simply the treatment of neurosis, but “the approach to the numinous.” This speaks to the centre of my own work. I’m interested in what happens when we move beyond symptom management alone and begin to listen for the deeper intelligence of the psyche, the symbolic life of the body, and the soul’s longing to become more fully alive.

As a Jungian Psychoanalyst, Registered Psychotherapist (IAAP/CRPO/CAPT), and creator of Jungian Somatics™, I bridge analytic depth, intellectual rigour, and the wisdom of the body. My work brings together Jungian analysis, somatic intelligence, dream work, symbolic imagination, trauma-informed clinical experience, anti-oppressive practice, and the living intelligence of the unconscious.

Before becoming a Jungian Psychoanalyst, my work was shaped by a long apprenticeship to the body. I trained in many movement modalities and spent years working with people through embodiment, somatic exploration, trauma-informed practice, and clinical care. I have worked with people impacted by sexual assault, sexual abuse, developmental trauma, torture, life-threatening illness, chronic health issues, institutional stress, oppression, and collective trauma. This has shaped the way I understand suffering, embodiment, survival, dissociation, power, shame, grief, and the ways the psyche protects itself when a person has endured what was too much, too soon, or too alone.

This taught me to listen not only with my mind and body, but through my heart and soul. I learned to notice subtle shifts in breath, tissue, gesture, posture, sensation, affect, and presence. I came to understand the body not as an object to be fixed, but as a living field of intelligence, memory, feeling, symbol, and soul.

Earlier in my life I worked in labour relations and specialized in conflict and relational conflict resolution, on both the labour and management sides. That background continues to inform the way I understand power, projection, rupture, repair, communication, authority, and the unconscious dynamics that constellate between people. It also grounds my work in an understanding that suffering does not arise only inside the individual. It is also shaped by family systems, workplaces, culture, oppression, collective history, and the conditions we are asked to survive.

I also studied acting and performance early in my life, which deepened my understanding of authenticity, presence, embodiment, voice, expression, and the ways we learn to perform versions of ourselves in order to belong, succeed, or survive. This continues to shape my work with people seeking a more truthful relationship to their own soul, creativity, and embodied presence.

Jungian Somatics™ emerged from these many streams: years of clinical practice, teaching, movement work, personal analysis, embodied inquiry, anti-oppressive practice, conflict work, and serious study of Jungian theory. It is a way of listening to the psyche not only through words and concepts, but through sensation, movement, image, dream, symptom, gesture, posture, voice, expression, and felt sense. It honours the body as a symbolic field and recognizes that the unconscious often speaks through the body long before it can be understood by the mind.

At the heart of my work is the cultivation of mystical aliveness: a state of being in which we reconnect with vitality, meaning, soul, and the felt preciousness of life.