Jungian Analysis for Women
Many of the women I speak with are creative, intelligent, capable and accustomed to carrying a great deal. They have often had other forms of therapy, but run into recurrent issues, existential questions and a wish to explore a deeper self.
Jungian analysis offers a place in which the different strands of your life can be brought into relationship, so that change arises from greater connection with what is actually there.
I work particularly with women in which transformation is not a question, but an innate request. We might be dealing with work and identity, (inter)cultural or generational shifts; the wish for a child, pregnancy or motherhood; relationships, sexuality and intimacy; separation, bereavement or loss, creativity, or the bodily and psychological changes of perimenopause and menopause.
These passages can bring unresolved experiences and familiar patterns close to the surface. Alongside the immediate difficulty, we intuit that we do not seek to simply feel better, but to live in a way that feels honest, embodied and one’s own.
The feminine as a way of knowing
A woman’s individuation moves labyrinthian: circling, returning and deepening until something that could not previously be lived begins to find form.
In my work, the feminine does not refer to a fixed image of how a woman should be. Nor does it mean that receptivity, imagination or relationship belong exclusively to women. It names a form of consciousness that remains attentive to the body, to feeling and image, to the cyclical movement of change and to the ways in which our lives can be embedded in sustainable, reciprocal relationships.
The task is not to replace the masculine with the feminine, or visa versa. Feminine wisdom requires a supporting masculine: clarity and boundaries without domination, deepening without losing a sense of self, and the capacity to act in service of what has been inwardly recognized.
How we work
Jungian analysis makes room for dreams, bodily responses, emotions, creative expression and imagination, as well as the circumstances of everyday life. These are not treated as instructions with one fixed meaning. Together, we remain curious about the associations and emotional charge gathered around them, and about what begins to unfold through the analytic relationship.
Sometimes this work leads towards an outward decision; at other times it changes how an experience can be understood and carried.
This work may be relevant when:
A relationship or emotional pattern keeps repeating.
A creative, psychological or spiritual longing or wish has become difficult to ignore.
You feel consistently annoyed, angry or down/depressed.
You sense that earlier trauma or relational experience continues to shape the present.A work/life balance that no longer sustains.
Issues surrounding intimacy and/or sexuality.
Motherhood or an unfulfilled wish for a child has unsettled your sense of self.
You are moving through separation, bereavement or another defining transition.
You feel outwardly capable but inwardly depleted, divided or without direction.
Changes in the body have brought questions of identity, sexuality or mortality closer.
Beginning Jungian analysis
Sessions are available in Dutch and English, online and in person in Vorden and Zutphen. If you are considering working with me, a brief introductory call offers space for practical questions and for us both to consider whether beginning an analytic process would be appropriate. You are also welcome to book a session where space is available.
