Jungian Therapists in Santa Barbara, CA

Finding yourself at a challenging crossroad? Aware that it is time for a change but uncertain how to start? I can help. Whether your goal is improved self-esteem, relationships, wellness, stress-management, creative output or a better sense of direction, I offer guidance and tools that quickly help to get you on the right path. Using a combination of archetypal analysis and hypnotherapy, I help clients understand their personal narrative and transform their lives with increased ingenuity, healthier living and/or improved relationships.

I am a clinical psychotherapist with a Jungian orientation. I work well with intuitive, feeling, creative types; high functioning individuals who can present really well, and whose problems aren’t very apparent to others. I treat anxiety and depression; both long-term conditions and new unexpected episodes due to stage of life transitions and life stressors. (eg Covid related, relationships, job loss, co-occuring medical conditions). I have treated addiction and substance use issues in both residential and intensive outpatient settings. I also work as an educator & mental health consultant (see: parent consultation for child).

We are born with seeds of promise and life potential. However, life also comes with experiences and emotional trauma that can damage, block or inhibit that potential. The results of which can take forms such as depression, anxiety, low self esteem, vulnerability to abuse and relationship issues etc.. These struggles can be debilitating, soul destroying and often isolating. I am British born and have been in private practice as an analytically trained Jungian Psychotherapist for over thirty years. The Jungian depth perspective seeks to get to the root cause of your suffering and help create a connection to inner resources.

I am a certified Ecotherapist, and CBT-I practitioner, my goal is to help you reach a balance with life and nature. You may be struggling with Insomnia, depression, anxiety, loss, negative patterns impacting daily life, or the inability to make time out in nature. My goal is to help you find balance with everyday life and nature. I hope to help you find purpose within yourself by seeing symptoms as symbols of deeper meaning. Within a safe therapeutic container of non-judgement, ecotherapy, dream analysis, narrative therapy, creativity, and direction we can increase your awareness of desires, fears, patterns, and strengths together.

Are you longing for joy, passion, creativity and a sense of wholeness? Do you want to be energetically free from physical and/or emotional pain? Do you want to recover fully from an eating disorder or disordered eating that is affecting the quality of your life? Do you want to lose or gain weight? Do you want to be more creatively expressed? Does anxiety and fear hold you back from developing meaningful relationships? Perhaps you are suffering from infertility? Feelings of loss and longing? Feeling stuck? I would love to work with you, to help you move from inside out.

I provide a safe and caring relationship. With trust as our foundation, together we explore what is calling for clarity, change, or comfort. I help you to identify and disengage from old destructive patterns, habits, and beliefs. I also help you to find and anchor new ways of being your authentic and joyful self in the world. If we are in harmony with ourselves we are much better equipped to foster healthy relationships with others. I help you get beneath anxiety, sadness, guilt, and shame to feeling honor, respect, and love--starting with yourself.

Hello, I see you as more than the trauma, the grief or struggle that brings you to therapy. I see you as more than ego or persona; the image we present to the world and I see you as much more than any diagnosis or label. I believe a lot of our distress and suffering comes from the fact that we are alienated from our true selves, we have lost connection to an aware relationship with ourselves. I work well with people who want to become more conscious, more aware, who want to better understand themselves.

Hello and thanks for looking up my profile. I am a licensed psychologist, a professor of psychology, and a frequent speaker....I am both a clinician and an academic. I am strongly psychodynamically oriented, influenced by both psychoanalytic (in the intersubjective tradition) and Jungian styles. I work well with articulate, curious, and thoughtful people who take their internal lives seriously...or who want to learn to do so. Good therapy with high functioning people is often more about surrendering and unlearning than "trying to change." I encourage moral courage, self-expression and meaning-making.

Psychotherapy is a path to understanding the Self. My background is in family systems and Jungian psychology. I work with individuals around issues of anxiety, depression, creativity, and trauma. Depth therapy often includes work with dreams, art, and sandplay. In addition, I use EMDR for trauma when addressing issues of PTSD. I specialize in sexual abuse with adults as well as other kinds of trauma. I enjoy working with people from diverse cultures and orientations. As a supervisor for 25 years, I enjoy working with interns on their way to licensure. Buddhist mindfulness practice informs my life and work.

I am a Certified Jungian analyst trained in Zurich, Switzerland and a Certified Psychoanalyst with the California Medical Board with over 19 years of clinical experience.

Depth psychotherapy looks into issues and patterns of behavior at a deeper level. “Symptoms,” however, can show up in myriad ways. Addiction • depressed and down • stuck or unable to get out of a rut • anxious or worried • unable to relax or feel at ease • racing thoughts • overwhelmed • feeling lost • at a quarter- or mid-life crisis • struggles in relationships • challenges with emotional or sexual intimacy • facing an affair • contemplating divorce or separation • creative blocks or self-sabotage • grief or loss of a loved one or stage of life. Perhaps it is a desire to experience more aliveness and connection — more juice.

Conflicts and feelings can challenge and confuse us: sadness, anxiety, depression, family, business and relational issues, creative blocks, and aging. I value helping you navigate these deeper concerns in a caring and safe environment; working together to develop a meaningful relationship with your self and others.

It's possible to access your inner wisdom and feel a sense of safety and belonging in this world; to hear your soul's calling and respond; to live into your deepest truths. When change is desired, the psychotherapy process transforms overwhelming fears, frustrations, and responsibilities into guides that keep one true to one's authentic path. I am here to journey with you; to help you create a place for your most sacred aspects of self so that you can feel more connected to yourself, to others, and to the world.

Many of my clients are those who tend to give too much, disconnect from their own needs and desires, feel depressed and anxious, and/or experience chronic pain. They are often highly sensitive and imaginative, helpers and healers, with literary, artistic, or philosophical leanings. They are all seeking to heal inner conflicts and relationship problems rooted in early attachment wounds or traumatic experiences. Most importantly, my clients have come to recognize it's time to do their inner work in order to create the outer life they want, and they continue to grow and deepen into their innate wisdom long after therapy has ended.

Hello, thank you for finding me on Psychology Today. Much of my work is with children, adolescents, families (parenting) and adult individuals. I have experience working with trauma, abuse, grief, loss, long term illness, anxiety, depression, ADHD and other childhood emotional disorders. I view my clients in a holistic sense, taking into consideration their symptoms, life stressors, emotional/physical developmental changes/stages, past/recent trauma(s), family dynamics, parenting styles from childhood -past/present, as well as coping skills and interpersonal relationships and support systems.

Dr. Anna Selena Cho, was born in Los Angeles and has personal experience living bi-culturally. Dr. Cho was traditionally trained in visual arts in her early developmental years and eventually obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy and Art Therapy at Phillips Graduate University, and her Doctorate in Applied Clinical Psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Cho has developed programs with organizations wanting to further expand their learning standards towards socio-emotional integration.

I believe effective psychotherapy must be tailored to fit individual client needs to foster the path towards well-being. Traumatic experiences, the voice of the inner critic, emotional dysregulation, and social/environmental stressors fragment a sense of self, exiling our inner strengths and resources. I strive to locate those inner resources and help clients reclaim a sense of wholeness and creative life force through exploration and implementing best-practice tools.