Jungian Psychotherapy
Jungian psychotherapy was developed by swiss psychologist Carl Jung. It’s a form of Psychoanalysis that uses techniques to explore areas of people’s unconscious self.
What is Jungian Psychotherapy?
Carl Jung believed that mental health issues occur when you can’t live as your true self. The goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to bring unconscious parts of your personality to the surface and align them with who you think you are.
This form of therapy is rather flexible, but Carl Jung developed core tenets that are the foundation for analytical psychotherapy:
- Archetypes
- Complexes
- Symbols
Each of these are employed to understand who you are and what your unconscious self is trying to communicate. The unconscious is viewed as a guide for personal growth, leading you toward what you need to work through as your story develops.
Ways of Exploring the Unconscious
Exploring and drawing out the unconscious parts of yourself is not easy. It requires a level of personal intimacy. However, Carl Jung utilized several creative-driven activities to help bring out those thoughts.
Not every session of Jungian psychotherapy will utilize these activities, but they are common techniques, even outside of Jungian therapy. Each of these require you to build trust with your therapist, but have the potential to teach you more about yourself.
Art
Art is a conduit you can use to express how you feel beyond words. While you create art you may add symbolism that you didn’t know was connected to your life.
Dream Analysis
Your dreams could hold significance for trying to better understand your unconscious self. Your therapist may ask you to keep a dream journal that you’ll interpret together.
Active Imagination
It’s believed that this practice helps clients interact with the images that their mind produces and therefore gives a glimpse into the unconscious.
Word Association
This practice helps clients bring forward unconscious thoughts by making them speak the first thing that comes to mind when hearing a word.Before you have time to think, your unconscious thoughts affect your behaviors.
What We Treat
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Mental Health
We diagnose and treat a wide variety of mental health disorders, including trauma effects, dual diagnosis, depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and codependency.
Addiction
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