MY WORK

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day”

These last lines from Mary Oliver’s poem “The Summer Day” continue to awaken in me a sense of wonder, curiosity, and awe. In particular, the words “your one wild and precious life” resonate and reverberate within my soul. They call me to value this one wild and precious life that is dear to each of us. 

Perhaps you are like me and have been on a long journey exploring the expression of your natural authentic self. The extraordinary diversity of individual life necessitates we listen deeply to the calling inherent in each individual life. As a trained psychotherapist and Jungian Analyst my goal in working with individuals, couples, and families is to address the complexities of relationships while honoring individual authenticity and sovereignty. 

It is important to me to provide a therapeutic experience responsive to your desire to create a meaningful life for yourself—a life attuned to your particular inner compass. 

I have always been interested in people and psychology. Academically, I found my way first to the study of world arts and cultures and then to the study of psychology, particularly depth psychology, which acknowledges the reality of the unconscious, the wellspring of all creative life. Marriage and Family licensure and certification as a Jungian Analyst deepened my engagement with the unconscious, with my own process of becoming, and with that of others. 

My analytic work and practice is informed by the psyche and my studies in analytical psychology, alchemy, fairy tales, myth, and world arts and cultures. In practice for 30 years, I work with a Jungian understanding of the psyche and relational systems, using approaches in keeping with and in response to individual and family needs. My clinical work includes skilled dream work, use of Active Imagination, Sandplay, and typological and word association assessment. My research interests include the study of Jungian ideas, alchemical symbolism, archetypal motifs, individuation, and native healing practices. Additionally, I bring an interest in systemic processes to my work with families and organizational leadership in education.

I am a licensed Marriage Family Therapist, #MFC 35824, trained to practice psychotherapy with individuals, families, children and groups of people wanting to cultivate meaningful and fulfilling relationships. I am also trained to recognize developmental patterns and can distinguish natural growth patterns from pathology while exploring the purposive dynamism of your individual psyche. 

I am in private practice in Santa Barbara, and Ventura, California with expanded office hours online. 

In addition to working with individuals, couples, and families, I offer reading groups and seminars. I teach, consult, and present programs nationally and internationally on areas of special interest: archetypal healing motifs, dreams, active imagination, native cultures, and wisdom traditions, as well as the intersections between the arts, sciences, and depth psychology.