Depth Psychotherapy · Jungian Analysis
Just like rivers — our psyches, our minds, and our hearts continuously flow through the landscapes of our everyday existence. They twist and turn, get entangled with other people's thoughts and feelings, while slowly morphing into strangely predetermined paths and intuitive premonitions.
From a state of crisis, which often forces us to come into therapy, to a slow and paced introspection and self-reflection — we find ourselves on a life journey that takes us through different places, both light and dark. But if we choose to learn from these points of juncture, we can become empowered with self-knowledge that ultimately leads to self-acceptance.
Depth psychotherapy takes seriously the idea that what we don't know about ourselves is at least as important as what we do. Symptoms — anxiety, depression, recurring patterns in relationships, the persistent feeling that something is wrong or missing — are not obstacles to be removed. They are invitations. Signals from a deeper layer of the personality that is trying to be heard.
The work of analysis is to make that hearing possible. Not by force or technique alone, but through a sustained, attentive relationship with what is alive in the psyche — including what has been dismissed, repressed, or simply never had a chance to form.
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
— C.G. Jung
I use a multi-disciplinary approach to treatment, applying psychodynamic and attachment-based therapy combined with contemporary research on trauma and neuropsychology. I also turn to dreams, symbols, and archetypal motives, as they can provide deeper intuitive meaning and direction.
No single framework captures the full complexity of a human life. Jungian analysis at its best is not a rigid method but a living practice — one that draws from the full range of depth psychology while remaining attentive to the unique person in the room. What this means in practice varies from person to person, session to session, and moment to moment.
The unconscious speaks in images, in feelings, in the body, in dreams, in the sudden resonance of a myth or a piece of music. Learning to listen to this language — to take it seriously rather than dismiss it as irrational — is one of the central tasks of the work.
"Therapy is a collaborative space, where two people — you and your therapist — work closely together on understanding, redefining, and reimagining your past, present, and future."
— Elaine Sedelnikova
These are not rules or techniques — they are orientations. Commitments to a certain quality of attention, relationship, and respect for the complexity of psychic life.
Analysis is not a procedure performed on a patient. It is a relationship — and the quality of that relationship is not merely the container for the work; it is itself the primary medium through which change occurs. The space between analyst and analysand is where the unconscious becomes visible.
Anxiety, depression, repeating patterns, inexplicable reactions — these are not malfunctions. They are expressions of something in the psyche that has not yet found adequate conscious form. The task is not to suppress the symptom but to understand what it is trying to say.
In the Jungian tradition, the unconscious is not merely a repository of repressed material — it is a creative, generative dimension of the psyche that actively participates in our growth. Dreams, spontaneous images, and synchronicities are not noise; they are signals worth attending to.
There is no template for how analysis unfolds. Some things need to be approached slowly and with great care. Others emerge quickly. I follow the person rather than a predetermined protocol, trusting that the psyche knows more about what it needs than any clinical model does.
The psyche is not located solely in the mind. Feelings live in the body; trauma is held somatically; the breath, the posture, the quality of a voice — all of these carry information that words alone cannot convey. My work includes attunement to the body as a source of psychic knowledge.
Individuation — Jung's term for the central aim of analysis — is not about becoming a better or more successful version of oneself. It is about becoming more fully and genuinely oneself: including the difficult parts, the contradictions, the wounds. Wholeness includes shadow.
Therapy is a collaborative space. I bring my training, my experience, and my own ongoing relationship with the unconscious. You bring your life — your history, your symptoms, your dreams, your questions, your resistance. Neither is sufficient alone.
People come to analysis at many different moments and for many different reasons. There is no single right time, and there is no single right reason. What matters is that something has prompted you to consider whether a deeper engagement with your own inner life might be useful — or even necessary.
Some common points of entry:
A personal crisis — loss, rupture, transition — that has disrupted the familiar sense of who you are.
Persistent symptoms — anxiety, depression, mood disturbance — that have not responded adequately to other approaches.
Recurrent patterns in relationships, work, or creative life that seem to repeat no matter what you do differently.
A feeling of being unseen — by others or by yourself — and the wish to understand why.
Curiosity about inner life — a desire to know yourself more deeply, even without a presenting crisis.
Analysis does not follow a fixed script. But there is a general rhythm to how the work unfolds — a movement from surface to depth, from symptom to meaning, from isolation to relation.
A first meeting of 50 minutes to talk about what brings you here, what you've tried before, and what you're hoping for. No commitment is required. The consultation is also a chance to sense whether working together feels right — for both of us.
We establish a regular time — once or twice weekly, depending on what feels appropriate. Early sessions are often devoted to history: your story, your symptoms, your significant relationships. Dreams are welcome from the beginning.
As the work continues, it typically opens into deeper layers: the complexes formed in early life, the unconscious patterns shaping present experience, the archetypal images that carry personal and collective meaning. The material often surprises both of us.
The long-range horizon of Jungian analysis is the process Jung called individuation — the gradual emergence of a more authentic, more whole self. This is not a destination that is reached and completed; it is a direction, a quality of attention to one's own becoming, that can be cultivated throughout a lifetime.
An initial consultation is a 50-minute meeting — no commitment required beyond that single hour. It is simply a chance to talk, to sense whether the work and the relationship might be right, and to see what becomes possible.
