Jungian analysis and psychotherapy is a place where people have the opportunity to deeply explore their own mind and motivations in a setting that is supportive, empathic and non-judgmental. This work allows exploration, understanding and growth.

A green lion consuming the Sun is a common alchemical image and is seen in texts such as the Rosary of the Philosophers. The symbol is a metaphor for aqua regia (the green lion) consuming matter (the Sun), gold.

This approach allows my patients to organically move to the areas that they need to in order to move forward in their lives. I encourage people to bring the everyday events of their life to our sessions. Then, in session, to just relax and let their mind and emotions fluidly “choose” what they “need” to talk about without too much “thinking about” what “should” be talked about.

Over time, the ritual, routine and repetition of our work and the thinking and feeling about it in between sessions, leads to a deeply reflective process being activated. The process often seems to take on “a life of its own”. Together we explore dreams, fantasy life, internal thinking processes and conversations, internal reactions to everyday and past events and, importantly, past and present relationships. I also work with the body by asking about the bodily reactions to the things that we talk about during our sessions. We also explore the relationship to me as the therapist as this can often repeat some of the relational patterns that have been set up over a lifetime.

Gradually and patiently, we tease out the meaning and understanding of the internal processes, patterns and external outlook to life’s events. As you can imagine, this is not a short term process. How long the work takes depends on the individual.