What is Jungian Therapy ?

Jungian therapy, within analytical psychology, is a way of thinking about psychological development. It's an approach to healing, a way by which people develop their realized potential. You might think of this as the individual self we are each meant to become.

C G Jung's word for this kind of becoming is individuation. Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, was the first person to understand the presence of archetypal structures in individuals. By example, the father archetype in both men and women governs how we interact with the outer world, with the world of work, with authority, rules, and institutions. The mother archetype in both men and women governs how we relate, create, collaborate and nurture ourselves and each other. Jung's method asks that we "stay with the image with a self reflective ego attitude" until we make the unconscious conscious. Therefore the primary "tool" in Jungian-oriented therapy is the dream, or the image. My own life's passion as a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist is to explore the images that move through waking and sleep states, as these images hold the key to enchantment, to healing, and to development.