I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#140256) specializing in self-esteem and identity, providing psychotherapy for individuals located in California. I’m often moved by the ways in which psychotherapy can support the depth and magic of one’s interpersonal and transpersonal experience. Many of my clients are highly sensitive, creative individuals working to more-consciously engage their inner world. Sometimes this arrives as a depression, a relational rupture, a conflict of identity.

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In our world, these experiences are vulnerable to being pathologized, two-dimensionalized and flattened into a diagnostic stasis. The world of archetypal psychology, however, might welcome these “arrivals” to more-fully observe their potency and poetry— how might their presence evoke consciousness? In what ways could they be informing your personal myth? How might this personal myth protect you? Where does it fit itself into the larger tapestry of your ancestral wisdom? How else might it approach you? Aurally, visually, in dreams or in waking imagination? The instinctive nature in which one might be able to answer points us toward soul. The right psychotherapeutic relationship can allow for a ritualizing of this psychic data, to be engaged with curiosity and reverence. Where meaning can be made, soul can be tended to.

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