thoughts about depth psychology
Depth Therapy Journal Prompts
Make journal writing a ritual: make some tea, light a candle, or find a spot that feel set apart. Return to this process in a rhythm that feels right for you.
How do we discover our own inner pathway or process to individuation?
We’re surrounded by advice on mental health and wellness, but true well-being isn’t one-size-fits-all. Finding your own path toward wholeness is a deeply personal journey.
Initial consultation call with Laura
Something new can begin here. In our initial conversation, we’ll get clear on what matters most to you, and you’ll leave knowing how we can start working together.
The Quarter-Life Crossroads: Therapy for Emerging Adults in the Liminal Space
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
― Joseph Campbell
The Interior Troupe: Exploring Archetypal Psychology, Active Imagination, Sandplay, and IFS in Therapy
"Soul-making is not the same as personal development or self-improvement; it is the creative engagement with the images that life brings to us, and the realization that these images are a response to the soul’s need for expression."
— James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
Depth Oriented (Jungian) Therapy for Children
“Jungian play therapy is a dynamic, creative approach to counseling children that emphasizes symbolic meaning.” -Eric Green
Finding a Therapist & Why Depth Therapy Supports Lifelong Growth
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
-Joseph Cambell
Working with the Shadow and Golden Shadow in Therapy
In the The Red Book, Jung wrote, "I must learn that the dregs of my thought, my dreams, are the speech of my soul." In poet Robert Bly’s book A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self he encapsulates the shifting, shadowy parts of The Shadow in the image of “the long bag we drag behind us” that contains all the discarded parts of ourself. While we often think of the shadow as our repressed fears, rage, or shame, Jung and Bly also spoke of the golden shadow—the brilliance, creativity, or power we project onto others but struggle to own for ourselves.
Depth Psychotherapy for Teens
The cosmos in which we place youth and through which we insight youth will influence its pattern of becoming. –James Hillman
Sandplay both simple and profound. Why consider sandplay?
"Sandplay therapy utilizes a small tray of wet or dry sand in which you are invited to create scenes using miniature objects--a nonverbal communication of their internal and external worlds” (Labovitz Boik, and Goodwin 2000). I believe that we all have an intrinsic creative capacity that is essential to our feelings of aliveness. As a result of overwhelming experiences we can feel cut off from this capacity. Sandplay is a way to safely and in a protected, safe relational space, begin to renew contact with this process.