the mycelial self
“In difficult times, organisms find new symbiotic relationships in order to expand their reach. Crisis is the crucible of new relationships.”
– Merlin Sheldrake in Entangled Life
A wise dream voice once told me: “A woman matures when she is not focused on her own individuation journey anymore.” This paradox continues to guide my path. While Jung described individuation as a solitary descent and return, I am drawn to another possibility: that maturity, especially in the feminine, is not about heroic singularity but about ripening. Like the mycelial web, the feminine grows through connection, relation, and reciprocity.
“Is there another way?”
This question— a returning question posed in my very first dreams in analysis—shapes both my clinical work and my research. It invites me to explore ways of practicing analysis, mysticism, and imagination that honor interbeing and the ecologies of kinship and relationship.
Below a few of the strands and spores of my work and research.
Anima Mundi School
I founded the Anima Mundi School, a collaborative space where colleagues and students from around the world bring together depth psychology, storytelling, myth, spiritual ecology, and the creative arts. Our work is rooted in the imaginal and in cycles of myth and fairytale, exploring how the feminine is rising to consciousness in our time. Read more here →
Anima Mundi Dreaming
Over the past seven years I have co-developed a practice of collective dreamwork with my colleagues Gauri Raje and Laura Krusemark. This work draws on indigenous dreaming traditions and on imaginal psychology, creating ritual containers in which images, colors, and motifs can be shared and incubated. It is a practice of deep listening to what the earth, the collective and each individual within a group is speaking into the world. I teach this methodology in the 3 Year Training Ecologies of the Imagination.
Dreamwork art by Lolo Plouvier
Alchemy
Academic research: The Practice & Psychology of Alchemy
As part of my academic work, I completed a Research MA at the University of Amsterdam, where I focused on alchemy, mysticism, and Jungian psychology. My thesis explored the intersection of Jung’s psychology of alchemy with the living practice of laboratory alchemy (Spagyrics). Through both fieldwork and historical research, I examined how matter itself participates in transformation, and how alchemy may point us toward a more relational and feminist understanding of psyche, spirit, and nature. I occasionally give lectures and workshops on this topic called “Alchemy & the Poetics of Matter".