Jungian Analysis

Please note that I don’t offer a referral service to other practitioners.

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, the Jungian Somatics™ Dream Method, 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 Somatic 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 both deeply personal and academically rigorous. It is 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. We study the unconscious and also experience it directly through our own intensive personal analysis. Training requires years of supervision and control analysis with senior analysts, often on a weekly or twice-weekly basis. This means clinical work is carefully held and examined through the lens of transference, countertransference, dreams, complexes, symbolic material, ethics, and the analytic relationship.

The academic requirements are extensive. Candidates spend years immersed in Jung’s Collected Works, as well as mythology, religion, fairy tale, alchemy, dreams, symbolic language, psychopathology, ethics, transference, complexes, and archetypal psychology.

My own training included a major thesis, symbol papers, almost 400 hours of Jungian seminars and two rounds of rigorous oral and written examinations. Progression was not guaranteed by grades alone. It was determined through interviews, examinations, and careful assessment by committees of senior analysts, who evaluated psychological, clinical, and ethical readiness.

This rigour matters because Jungian analysis is learned intellectually, embodied, 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 emotional stability and a readiness to engage long-term with the deeper layers of the psyche. It’s not designed for those in acute crisis or for individuals currently living with significant trauma symptoms or emotional dysregulation.

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.

Session rates are available upon request.

All sliding scale spaces are currently full.

I work with clients weekly or bi-weekly in a longer-term orientation. I work on a structured schedule and don’t offer short term sessions or sporadic scheduling.