“What door is opened into soul through our wounds?”

- James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology

“Psychological health is not merely the absence of symptoms; it is the positive presence of inner capacities and resources that allow people to live life with a greater sense of freedom and possibility.”

                                                                                         - Jonathan Shedler

“the essence of this work can be expressed as facilitating a relationship to suffering that helps one bear it in a new way”

- Kara Swedlow, MA, MFTi

In its Greek origins, the word psychotherapy comes from psyche + therapeia and means tending soul/spirit. In a depth psychological approach, client and therapist explore unconscious contents of the psyche. We look beyond the outer problematic behavior and thoughts to become familiar with the inner world. Via the imagination psyche/soul can be gleaned from symptoms, gestures, dreams, associations, fantasies, and spontaneous images. Symptoms such as depression, anxiety, compulsions, and rage can point or pull people in directions that their soul needs  to move into health and vitality. 

Laurie Chandler, MA, Marriage and Family Therapy Registered Intern (IMF #64780)

chandlerdepthpsych@gmail.com     415.562.7768

    Supervised by Peggy Handler, LMFT, MFC 32077  * New Perspectives Center for Counseling, San Francisco