Psychoanalytic therapy, or analysis, is the most in-depth form of psychotherapeutic work. Analysis is often an intensive process in terms of time and emotional impact but can lead to profoundly transformative changes in behavior, quality of life, and self-understanding.  

Analysis is founded on the premise that we each have an unconscious part of our psyche which greatly influences our thoughts, feelings, and relationships. Analysis is the process of bringing our unconscious patterns, behaviors, as well as the disinherited and unlived parts of ourselves more into consciousness. Jungian analysis, based on the work of Carl Jung, differs from many other forms of analysis and psychotherapy in several important ways:

– Jungian Psychology is founded on the belief that the human psyche, if given proper conditions, has a natural tendency to heal and move towards wholeness.

– The practice of analysis supposes that our difficulties and symptoms are not merely the result of traumas in our past, but are flickering attempts by our psyche to step into the person we are becoming.

– Our individual human experience rests upon what Jung called the Collective Unconscious, the archetypal dimension of inherited memory that connects us to all beings.

Analysis is not just a method of decreasing symptoms or solving problems, but is a path to a more authentic, vital, and complete version of ourselves and a clearer vision of our place in the world. Jungian analysis uses dreams, fantasies, symptoms, and daily life experiences to uncover and understand the unconscious influences which shape our experience. In addition to classical Jungian Analysis, I also have been trained in Jungian Sandplay Therapy. For in-person clients, this is a holistic, non-rational form of therapy that reaches a profound level of the psyche and is a wonderful adjunct to traditional analysis.