Jungian Analytic Psychotherapy: A Depth-Oriented Approach
Who I Work With
I work with people who are ready to move beyond symptom management and into a deeper process of self-knowledge and growth. Some come driven by a desire for an expanded connection with their creativity and vitality or for a deeper sense of purpose in life. Others through suffering, loss, rupture, or life events that shake the foundations of their world, their relationships, or their sense of self.
People who work with me tend to be curious about the deeper meaning in their suffering and symptoms. Through depth work, suffering can become generative, a place for transformation and renewal. The therapeutic container helps to create a space where your psyche can reveal what is needed to create long-lasting change.
A Therapy That Respects Your Autonomy
One of the most vital aspects of therapy is fostering genuine autonomy and self-direction. It takes courage to live the life that is uniquely yours to live, yet no one else can live it for you. I can't tell you what choices to make or what you should believe, but together, we will help you develop the capacity to listen inwardly for the signals from your unconscious that can guide you to greater wholeness and better alignment with the person you are meant to be.
Holding Tension — Finding the Third Way
So much of human experience lives in tension: the desire for growth and the desire for safety; the longing for connection and the need for independence; the pull toward certainty and the pull toward possibility. These tensions rarely resolve cleanly, and I don't try to force them to. Instead, I aim to hold the tension alongside you while we look together for the third way—the path that transmutes or balances what feels irreconcilable.
What to Expect from Jungian and Depth Psychotherapy
I meet with people at least once a week at a regular, recurring time. My approach is both gentle and intense. It's gentle in the sense that change will be self-paced. Growth emerges from a sense of autonomy and insight, and it will be guided by your own psyche, not something imposed on you. It's intense in the sense that real insight requires a willingness to look honestly at your pain: how it lives in your relationships, your body, your worldview, and your sense of self.
Part of my work is to draw attention to patterns that repeat, defenses that have outlived their usefulness, conflicted needs, and the influence of the unconscious. I may bring in knowledge of the nervous system or human development when it feels useful, but even within the universal, there is infinite individuality. No two people are exactly alike. No tool works for everyone. Everything we do will be shaped around you.
Our most important instrument throughout this process is the relationship we build together. That's why all of my work begins by establishing trust, connection, and a shared sense of what we're working toward. This is depth-oriented, psychoanalytic therapy. It's not a formula-driven approach, but a genuine and collaborative exploration.
Although most people seek therapy when they are in pain, this process can also be energizing and even exciting. Most importantly, it's all in service of helping you grow more fully into yourself and toward a greater sense of wholeness and aliveness.
Expressive & Creative Modalities in Depth Therapy
Creativity can be a powerful therapeutic tool. There are times when an experiential or symbolic approach reaches places that words alone can't. Some of the expressive modalities I draw on include:
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Sandtray therapy — using miniature figures and a tray of sand to give form to what lives inside. What can be difficult to say in words often finds its shape here, made visible and workable in three dimensions.
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Active imagination — a Jungian practice of entering into dialogue with the figures, images, and voices that arise from the unconscious. Rather than analyzing from a distance, you meet them directly — and something shifts in the meeting.
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Art — no artistic skill required. Visual expression bypasses the inner critic and the habit of explanation, sometimes revealing what we didn't know we knew.
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Dream analysis — dreams speak in the native language of the psyche: image, symbol, and story. Bringing them into the therapeutic space opens a conversation with the parts of yourself that only emerge when the conscious mind steps back.
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Story and journaling — we are meaning-making creatures, and narrative is how we make sense of our lives. Writing and storytelling can help bring order to chaos or gently loosen a story that has grown too rigid.
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Somatic tools — the body holds what the mind has not yet processed. Working with breath, sensation, and physical awareness brings the whole person into the room, not just the thinking self.
Fees and Location
I offer in-person therapy sessions at my office in Williston, VT, where people have access to specialized tools like sandtray and expressive art materials. For those located outside the Chittenden County area, I provide secure telehealth sessions across Vermont.
Individual sessions are $200. I am primarily private pay and do not work with commercial insurance panels. If you have out-of-network benefits, I'm happy to provide superbills you can submit to your insurance for reimbursement. I reserve a small number of slots for sliding scale fees or individuals on Medicaid.
Ready to Begin?
If you're looking for the kind of growth and exploration I've described here, I'd love to talk about whether I'm the right person to help you pursue that change. I start with a free introductory call that allows us to explore how I can help. From there, we can decide if we want to schedule an initial 50 minute session. Both the call and the session are exploratory, with no commitment required, to help us determine if this process is the right one to help you achieve the growth your psyche is calling for.
About Me
I'm a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and an analytic training candidate with the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York. I've worked in private practice in Williston, Vermont since 2017. Before I was a therapist I was a bookseller, and I've written poetry and stories since childhood, so I tend to listen for story and image.
I believe symptoms, dreams, and images are the psyche's own language, and that suffering can become the raw material for transformation when worked with symbolically. My work is to help you learn to read that language and follow what it points toward, through conversation, dreams, sandtray, art, and active imagination, into a life that is more fully your own.
I meet with people in person in Williston and by telehealth throughout Vermont. Read more about me →
