About
I offer online psychotherapy and Jungian analysis both in Canada and internationally. I have clients from 10 Canadian provinces and 10 countries; my youngest is 24 and my oldest 88. My praxis includes clients presenting with trauma, depression, anxiety, LBGTQ2 issues, relationship issues, somatic concerns, midlife orientation, career and developmental milestones, intergenerational patterns and spiritual guidance. I also serve as a supervisor and offer ongoing classes in fairy tale analysis and ancestral “re-membering.”
Dedicated to understanding Traditional teachings within the context of contemporary Canadian society, I have trained and worked as an educator, counsellor, psychotherapist, Jungian analyst and administrator. I am interested in universal patterns and structures in nature, literature, myth, ceremony and ritual.
Experience
Past positions include Training Analyst and faculty member with the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich; Director of Studies, Fairy Tale Certification Course Developer, and faculty with The Assisi Institute: The International Center for the Study of Archetypal Patterns; Managing Editor of The Assisi Journal; and faculty with JungArchademy.
Bollingen Tower, Jung's 50 Year Death Memorial, 2011 (photo credit: Dr. Lance Owens).
Inspiration
Words, nature, dreams and story are my sacred texts. They inscribe and articulate the pattern and the meaning of our lives. As a literature teacher and a Jungian analyst for close to 40 years, my professional experience is vast and varied. My personal passions include writer, iconographer, grandmother and steward of 100-acres of woods in Ontario, Canada.
Passion
My whole life I have been interested in indigenous ways of knowing. I trained extensively with tribal Elders, and I am initiated in indigenous teachings and traditions, namely Mohawk, Annisaabe and Zimbabwe. When I was 8 years old, a copper skinned Micmac woman, unbidden, announced to my mother that, “This one, she is an old soul.” I have been trying to live into what that declaration means.
Find Meaning
An Elder taught me that the last lap of life is where meaning is revealed and consolidated. We are asked to gather the stones strewn upon the path of our days and polish them to gemstones.
With our last breath, as we place the heart-stone on the cairn our lives have made, the vista granted is of the past that beckons and the future that follows. We die unto those who have gone before us, and we leave a legacy for those who follow in our footsteps. These profound and intuitively true Traditional teachings whisper to me at this current threshold.
“At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.”
―Carl G. Jung