Walking the Deeper Path
For those who move between the visible and invisible worlds — who find meaning in symbol and dream, honor the sacred, and are seeking a therapist who can meet them there.
Spirituality as a dimension of therapy
For many people, the healing journey is inseparable from the spiritual one. Not in a doctrinal sense, this work is not affiliated with any particular tradition and welcomes people of all backgrounds, including those with no religious framework at all. But in the sense that healing often touches something that feels sacred: the recovery of a sense of meaning, the rekindling of wonder, the experience of being connected to something larger than the isolated self.
I hold space for this dimension with both reverence and care. If spirituality, contemplative practice, or the sacred is part of your life and your healing, it belongs in the room. If it is something you are curious about but uncertain of, that curiosity is welcome too. And if it is not part of your world, the depth work is equally available to you through the psychological and mythic dimensions alone.
If you already speak this language
You know what it means to pay attention to a dream. To sense the archetypal current moving through a season of your life. To recognize when a pattern repeating in your relationships is not just personal history but something larger, a lesson the soul is working through, an initiation you didn't choose but find yourself inside of nonetheless.
You have probably spent time in other therapeutic spaces where this language had to be translated down, where the symbolic had to be explained, where the sacred felt like something to set aside at the door. You may have found it useful, even transformative. And you may also have felt something missing, the sense that the full dimensionality of your experience wasn't quite being met.
This page is for you.
The soul does not speak in diagnoses. It speaks in image, in dream, in the recurring pattern that will not let you go until you have learned what it carries.
What this work holds
I bring to this work a genuine reverence for the invisible dimensions of human experience, the unconscious, the symbolic, the archetypal, the sacred. I am not a Jungian analyst, and I hold these ideas with appropriate humility, as a committed student, a fellow traveler, someone whose own inner life has been shaped by these traditions and who brings them into the room as living orientation rather than formal method.
What that means in practice: I can sit with a dream and help you listen to what it is saying rather than what you think it should mean. I can recognize when a mythic pattern is moving through your life and name it with you. Not to reduce the experience to a concept, but to offer it the dignity of being seen in its larger context. I can hold the sacred as sacred rather than treating it as metaphor for something more clinically legible.
I can also work with the shadow, the parts of the psyche that have been disowned, projected, or living in the dark, not as pathology but as unlived life asking for integration. And I can sit with the genuinely numinous when it arises, without pathologizing it or rushing past it toward resolution.
The archetypal and the personal
One of the gifts of this way of working is that it holds both levels simultaneously. The personal and the archetypal, the biographical and the mythic. The wound that traces back to your mother also participates in the ancient pattern of the abandoned child. The relationship that keeps breaking the same way is also an initiation into something your soul has been circling. The loss that will not resolve is also a genuine descent, a Persephone moment, that has its own timing and its own eventual return.
Naming this does not bypass the personal work. It deepens it. It places the suffering in a larger container, one that has held many people before you, and will hold many after. In doing so, it begins to shift its meaning without diminishing its weight.
How this weaves into the work
These dimensions don't operate as a separate modality, they are woven into everything, emerging organically alongside the somatic and relational work when the material calls for them. The body knows what the psyche is working through. A constriction in the chest during a dream exploration is not a distraction from the symbolic material, it is part of it. The nervous system holds the archetypal as much as the personal.
Dreams & active imagination
Dreams can be brought into sessions as living material, listened to, followed, allowed to continue unfolding rather than interpreted and filed away. For those interested, active imagination and spontaneous imagery can also be worked with as doorways into the deeper self.
Shadow & integration
The disowned, the projected, the unlived. Shadow work is not about excavating darkness but about reclaiming wholeness. What we can't see in ourselves we tend to meet in the world. Bringing these parts into consciousness with curiosity rather than judgment is some of the deepest work available.
Myth & archetypal pattern
When your life resonates with a mythic structure, descent, initiation, return, the long night, naming that pattern can shift the meaning of what you're moving through. You are not just having a personal experience. You are living something ancient and universal.
Somatic grounding
Depth without grounding can become destabilizing. Somatic Experiencing ensures the work stays embodied throughout, so that when we go into genuinely difficult territory, we can always find our way back to the body, to the breath, and to the earth beneath us.
Who this work is for
This dimension of the work may resonate especially if:
You sense that your healing asks something of you beyond symptom management. A deeper reckoning with who you are and what your life means
You are drawn to dreams, symbols, mythology, or archetypal patterns as lenses for understanding your inner life
Spirituality, contemplative practice, or a sense of the sacred is part of how you move through the world, and you want a therapist who can hold that with you
You have a feeling of spiritual emptiness, a loss of meaning, or a longing for something you can't quite name
You are in the middle of a significant life transition, a loss, transformation, a threshold, and need support that honors its depth
You want therapy that engages the whole of you, not just the mind or the nervous system, but the soul
You have a spiritual practice or relationship with the sacred and want a therapist who can hold that with reverence
You sense that a pattern repeating in your life is both personal and archetypal , and you want to understand it at both levels
I offer this work via telehealth throughout California and in person in Los Angeles.
What sessions feel like
Sessions that draw on this dimension move differently. More slowly, more associatively, with more room for image and metaphor and the thing that can't quite be said in linear language. There is more silence. More willingness to not-know. More trust in what wants to emerge rather than what the thinking mind believes should be happening.
The body is always present. Somatic Experiencing ensures the work stays grounded and embodied rather than floating into the purely conceptual. Depth without grounding can become destabilizing. The integration of the somatic means we can go into genuinely difficult territory, shadow, grief, the numinous, and find our way back to the body, to the breath, to the earth beneath us.
This is slow work. It asks patience, genuine curiosity, and a willingness to be surprised by what the psyche offers. It rewards that patience with something that purely symptom-focused work rarely reaches: a felt sense of meaning, of being on your path, of the life you are living as genuinely, recognizably yours.
If something in you has been waiting for this.
This kind of work asks a particular kind of readiness, a willingness to go slowly, to listen to what is beneath the surface, and to trust the process even when it doesn't move in a straight line. If that resonates, I'd be honored to explore this with you.