Jungian Analyst, Creator of Jungian Somatics™, Somatic Expert, and Educator

My work is rooted in the meeting place between psyche, body, soul, and the numinous.

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 Analyst, the creator of Jungian Somatics™, a somatic expert, and an educator with decades of experience, 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 Analyst, 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.

I also specialized in conflict and trained in relational conflict resolution, which continues to inform the way I understand power, projection, rupture, repair, communication, authority, and the unconscious dynamics that constellate between people.

My earlier background in labour relations, working on both the labour and management sides, also continues to inform the way I understand power, authority, institutional life, collective conflict, systemic harm, and the impact of larger social structures on the body and psyche. This history grounds my work in an understanding that suffering does not arise only inside the individual. It’s also shaped by family systems, workplaces, culture, oppression, collective history, and the conditions we are asked to survive.

I have also studied acting and performance, 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 background continues to shape my work with people who are 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.

Clinical Depth, Trauma, and Jungian Somatics™

In addition to my analytic training, my work emerges from many years of clinical practice specializing in personal and collective trauma through an anti-oppressive lens.

This has shaped the way I understand suffering, embodiment, survival, dissociation, oppression, and the ways the psyche protects itself when a person has endured what was too much, too soon, or too alone.

At the same time, my work does not reduce people to trauma or to what has happened to them.

The soul also matters. Meaning matters. Dreams matter. Symbols matter. The numinous matters. Intellectual understanding matters too, but it must be joined with the body’s intelligence if transformation is to become lived rather than merely understood.

Jungian Somatics™ is the body of work I created to explore the relationship between the unconscious, the body, symbolic life, and embodied transformation. It recognizes that the unconscious speaks through symptoms, gestures, images, impulses, postures, dreams, spontaneous movements of the soul, and the felt intelligence of the body.

This work invites a different kind of listening.

What is the body carrying?
What image is trying to form?
What movement wants to happen?
What has been exiled from consciousness?
What part of the soul is trying to return?
What does the psyche know that the mind or body alone can’t yet grasp?

I have taught and presented Jungian Somatics™ in Jungian, academic, clinical, hospital, crisis, and community settings across Canada, the U.S., and internationally. My teaching and clinical work bring together intellectual rigour, symbolic perception, somatic intelligence, conflict work, embodied presence, and the numinous dimension of psyche.

I work with people who are longing for more than symptom relief. Many are creatives, clinicians, leaders, seekers, and high-achieving people who have built meaningful lives, but feel called toward a deeper connection with soul, creativity, authenticity, and embodied aliveness.

My work is an invitation to rediscover your own spark, to listen to what stirs in your depths, and to step into a more embodied, soulful, intellectually grounded, and fully alive way of living.

Teaching and Speaking

I have taught and presented Jungian Somatics™ in Jungian, academic, clinical, hospital, crisis, and community settings across Canada, the U.S., and internationally including:

Jungian Organizations

• The Jung Centre Houston - Faculty Member

• South African Association of Jungian Analysts

• Jungian Studies Istanbul

• Jung Society of Austin

• Southern Arizona Friends of Jung

• Minnesota Jung Association

• C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Edith Sullwold Memorial Lecture

• Calgary Jung Society

• C.G. Jung Foundation of Ontario

• Jung Society of Utah

• Jung Archademy

Academic and Interdisciplinary Settings

• London Arts-Based Research Centre, Alchemy Conference – demonstration of embodied spontaneous drawing

• California Institute of Integral Studies, Forever Jung Conference – experiential session on the embodiment of the religious function of psyche

Clinical and Professional Conferences

• Women’s College Hospital, Trauma Talks Conference – somatic approaches to trauma recovery in integrative care

• Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs Conferences – body-based tools for trauma processing and resilience

• Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, Programs for survivors of torture and political violence – somatic practices that restore dignity and safety

• Sexual assault counsellors and crisis teams at University of Toronto – embodied presence and boundary repair

• Social service and community organizations – renewal practices for caregivers and advocates