Jungian Analysis
I offer Jungian analysis as a depth-oriented, psychodynamic approach that invites a sustained dialogue between consciousness and the unconscious. It's a process of psychological and spiritual development, grounded in the understanding that when the psyche receives the right support and holding, it can move organically toward wholeness.
People often come to analysis to discover deeper meaning, enrich their creative voice, rekindle spiritual aliveness, explore how to get unstuck in areas of their lives, or navigate difficult life transitions. Analysis provides a steady container where these experiences can be explored symbolically, reflected upon, and understood beyond the intellect.
Rather than aiming to fix or manage symptoms, I approach the psyche as a living system that communicates through dreams, symbols, and embodied experience. Along with talking, our work may include creative expression, movement, music, dream interpretation with a somatic orientation, and embodied active imagination- ways of engaging the unconscious through direct experience. Through this ongoing exploration, clients develop an inner relationship that strengthens vitality, authenticity, and a greater capacity to respond to the demands of the soul.
Jungian analysis works best when it is taken up as a primary process rather than one support among many. My approach emphasizes depth, continuity, and engagement with personal psychological material over time, rather than episodic or additive forms of inner work.
A Embodied Orientation
My approach includes a somatic dimension within the analytic process. I understand the body as a vital partner in Jungian analysis, a threshold into the unconscious and a mirror of the soul's language. Sensations, symptoms, posture, and breath often carry meaning that deepens insight and supports a growing capacity to hold ourselves with greater complexity. This embodied orientation brings immediacy and groundedness to the analytic dialogue.
How Jungian Analysis Differs
Jungian analysis differs from other psychodynamic approaches in both its focus and training. While many therapies emphasize behavioural change or symptom reduction, analysis is oriented toward transformation, cultivating a relationship with the unconscious and allowing the symbolic life of the psyche to guide personal growth.
Becoming a Jungian Analyst is an initiation into the unconscious that requires both intellectual discipline and embodied transformation. Training typically takes four to eight years and is deeply personal and academically rigorous, designed to ensure that analysts have spent many years exploring their own unconscious before sitting with another person's.
A central requirement is extensive personal analysis. Candidates spend hundreds of hours in the patient chair themselves, entering their own dreams, complexes, wounds, defenses, shadow, and symbolic life, studying the unconscious not only as a concept but as a lived experience. Training also requires years of supervision and control analysis with senior analysts, often weekly or twice-weekly, so that clinical work is carefully examined through the lens of transference, countertransference, the analytic relationship, and ethics.
The academic requirements are equally serious. Candidates spend years immersed in Jung's Collected Works alongside mythology, religion, fairy tale, alchemy, symbolic language, psychopathology, and archetypal psychology.
My own training included a major thesis, symbol papers, almost 400 hours of Jungian seminars, and rigorous oral and written examinations. Progression wasn’t guaranteed by grades alone. It was determined through interviews and careful assessment by committees of senior analysts, who evaluated psychological, clinical, and ethical readiness.
This rigour matters because Jungian analysis is learned both intellectually and through the body, and asks us to walk through the fire of our own psyche first — so that we can sit with another person's suffering, dreams, symbols, complexes, body, and soul with humility, steadiness, discernment, and depth.
Who This Work Is For
This work is best suited for individuals who have a baseline of emotional stability and a readiness to engage long-term with the deeper layers of the psyche. It isn't designed for those in acute crisis or for individuals whose current trauma symptoms or emotional dysregulation haven't yet been stabilized enough to safely hold what analysis tends to surface. Where that stabilization work is still underway, it's worth making sure it's in place — whatever form that takes for you — before beginning analysis itself.
Jungian analysis is a long-term, depth-oriented process that asks for steadiness, curiosity, and the capacity to reflect inwardly. Over time, it invites patience, insight, and a commitment to the ongoing process of becoming whole.