What if dreams don’t just belong to us—but move through us? In this way, we explore dreams not as puzzles to decode, but as mirrors reflecting deeper layers of our presence in the therapeutic field. Whether we’re working with a client’s dream, our own, or a symbolic image that arises between us, dreamwork becomes a… [Read More]
Essential Soul Care: A Psychospiritual MODEL
When people first hear the phrase Essential Soul Care®, they often ask me, “Is it a theory? A therapy? A spiritual practice?” The truth is, it’s all of these in spirit, but most accurately, Essential Soul Care® is a model—a structured, integrative way of approaching personal growth, healing, and transformation. Orientations, Modalities, and Models—What’s the… [Read More]
Coaching Through a Neo-Jungian Lens
As coaching matures as a profession, many practitioners are seeking ways to move beyond surface strategies and performance goals into the deeper territory of meaning, identity, and transformation. A Neo-Jungian lens offers coaches a powerful way to meet this hunger. Rooted in Carl Jung’s psychology yet adapted for today’s pluralistic and spiritually diverse world, Neo-Jungian… [Read More]
Shadow Work and the Therapist’s Interior Landscape
When we step into the role of therapist, coach, or healer, we carry more than theory and technique. We carry the fullness of who we are—our stories, our lived experiences, our values, and yes, our shadow. Shadow in therapy is not just with regard to the client. It’s the therapist too. The shadow, as Carl… [Read More]
Virtual Alchemy and the Inner Child
What if healing didn’t require a couch or a softly lit room—but instead unfolded in a meadow full of poppies and shasta daisies, where a girl named Wendy turned twelve in a world crafted entirely by imagination? When an inner child shows up inworld, the potential for virtual alchemy exists. Listen to a case study… [Read More]
When Structure Meets Soul: Evolving as a Clinical Supervisor
A student recently asked me a question, causing me to reflect on evolving as a clinical supervisor, giving me pause in the best possible way: How do you balance structure and creativity in your supervision practice, especially when working with clinicians who may be resistant to expressive or nontraditional approaches? The truth is, there’s no… [Read More]
Soulful Without a Steeple: On Being Spiritual But Not Religious
As I listened to the final lecture of Pacifica Graduate Institute‘s Graduate Certificate in Contemporary Analytical Psychology and Neo-Jungian Studies, I realized how much I have gained over the past year of coursework. This final lecture spoke to Carl Jung teasing out religion from spirituality. One of the discussion questions asked. “Are you SBNR (spiritual… [Read More]
Attuning to Archetypes as Therapists and Coaches
In this month’s peer supervision, we turned toward the archetypal field—those universal patterns, images, and energies that move through us and our clients, often beneath conscious awareness. Archetypes are not static labels or fixed identities. They are living, breathing forces. They shape how we show up in the room—how we listen, respond, hold, challenge, or… [Read More]
