Jungian Analysis
Jungian psychoanalysis for me is a feminine practice, it is a way to soak our rigid patterns and fossilised memories and bring them to life. By soaking (in) them repetitively, we dissolve and transform our old self just like the alchemists did during their repeating solve et coagula processes. But beyond the deeply symbolic thinking that Jungian work allows, for me psychoanalysis is a profoundly relational and human experience.
What is Jungian analysis?
Jungian psychoanalysis is a form of depth therapy. It works with what Jung called the unconscious—the layers of experience, memory, and imagination that shape us, often outside of our awareness.
We each have our conscious life (like a boat on the surface of the ocean) sailing across the vast waters of the unconscious. In analysis we dive below the surface. We do this by working with dreams, images, sandplay, drawings, and also with symptoms such as depression, anxiety, anger, or trauma.
The way I work is both psychological and somatic. This means the body and its felt awareness are an important part of the process. My practice is also relational: the dialogue and encounter between analyst and analysand are central to how change and transformation unfold.
My specialisation is working with what I call feminine consciousness—in both women and men. This is about healing, strengthening, and integrating the ecologies of the feminine within psyche, body and our everyday lives. In practice, this often means developing a deeper embodied presence, finding new ways of relating, and allowing more fluidity in patterns of living and being.
A deep influence on my way of working has been the contributions of Dr. Donald Kalsched. His insights into trauma and the soul have shaped how I listen to both the protective and the wounded aspects of psyche, and how I hold the tension between the symbolic life of the imagination and the concrete realities of human experience. His presence and work have deeply guided and mentored my own, giving me a way to hold analysis as a profoundly human encounter.
While my background includes research in alchemy and mysticism, I hold these dimensions in a grounded and relational way. I offer a space where the symbolic life of the psyche and the practical realities of everyday living are both taken seriously, and where transformation emerges through the living relationship of analysis.
“The analyst’s chair is submerged in the waters of the shared unconscious, yet her role demands that she keep her head above its depths. While her mind remains alert during the analytical hour, her body is fully immersed—attuned to the currents of the client’s unconscious, her own, and the vast collective unconscious that encompasses all of life and death.
However, our work only gains salt and depth if we have touched the dark night sky at the bottom of this deep dark vast ocean.“— Farânak Mirjalili
When I first arrived in Küsnacht at the C.G. Jung Institute, I found this chair sitting quietly in the lake across the institute’s building. It is then that I immediately saw “the analyst’s chair” and knew I had found a second home for my ongoing work.
I am currently completing my second round of analytical training there and work in supervision with senior analysts and renowned Jungian experts, while being in ongoing analysis myself.
I am fluent in English, Dutch and Persian and can conduct analysis in any of these languages. Sessions are 50 min and take place in either Hilversum center or online via Zoom.
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