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Nicholas Toko, Jungian Analyst-in-training
What is a Jungian Analyst?
A Jungian analyst is a specially trained therapist focusing on Analytical Psychology, founded by Carl Jung. They help clients integrate their conscious and unconscious mind to address emotional issues and promote long-term personal growth and meaning.
How can Jungian Therapy help you?
It is hard to overcome difficult emotions, to feel like life has no meaning or purpose, to feel helpless, to face hurdles and adversity in your ambitions, goals, aspirations and in relationships with others or to be unable to express how you are feeling. Talking to a therapist can bring relief, however, to find a way to access your own inner resources, to find your own inner strength can be a life changing experience free from distress or nagging thoughts, resilient, at peace with yourself and others.
The unconscious is an untapped source of energy, it can help you to improve your resilience, better understand yourself and others, develop more effective personal and work-based relationships, find creative solutions to long-standing problems, and a source of inspiration, knowledge and wisdom. The unseen and unknown unconscious can also have unintended and less constructive, even damaging consequences for you, the people around you and the workplace.
Jungian Analysis is a talk therapy which brings the unconscious mind into conscious awareness as part of the treatment of a person's emotional issues. Analysis offers you an opportunity to talk through worries, concerns, difficulties or needs with a trained professional in a confidential setting.
Therapy can help to alleviate emotional suffering and to help you better cope with life's ups and downs. It is directed toward an exploration of the unconscious in order to alleviate emotional suffering which may be felt to be no longer tolerable because of its interference with living.
What is the goal of Jungian Analysis?
The goal of Jungian therapy is a movement towards wholeness by bringing together the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. This means coming to terms with the unconscious, it's specific structures and their dynamic relations to consciousness as these become available during the course of analysis.
What can Jungian Analysis help with?
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Experiencing difficult emotions
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Seeking purpose or meaning in life
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Upsetting or traumatic experiences
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Difficult life events
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Life transitions
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Coaching
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An interest in Jungian analytical psychology or depth psychology for your own self development
I work with clients facing different types of issues e.g depression and anxiety, personality disorders, navigating difficult workplace dynamics, racial identity issues especially bi-racial or mixed-race identity, refugee/migrant/first generation life experiences and difficulties, social adversity and vulnerable community experiences (violence, drugs and gang culture), difficult family dynamics, childhood neglect and abuse, self-limiting beliefs, limerence, ambivalence, somatic and body symptoms, and working with men from African, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean/Latin, Asian backgrounds to help them navigate emotional issues unique to their particular lived and cultural experiences.
I also work with people interested in their own personal growth or psychological development: coaching for individuals and business executives, treating work-related stress and burnout, personal analysis for postgraduate students [MA/MSc/MBA/PhD], sports professionals, retired sports professionals seeking purpose and meaning in life post successful sports careers.
Analysis has been proven effective in treating psychic disturbances, life crises as well as helping those seeking a deeper meaning in life.
The work is about making conscious the unconscious, and uses the patient-therapist relationship as a way to work through issues of everyday life.
The focus of Jungian therapy lies in the process of individuation - fulfilling the uniqueness of one’s personality - so that one's inner and outer world come into harmony.
What happens in a Jungian Analysis?
Jungian Analysis is beneficial to all people regardless of their upbringing, nationality, culture, identity, and personal history. In fact, these factors play an important role in analysis.
It is an essential feature of Jungian analysis that in working towards a healthy mind, the unconscious is given a central voice, for example, through the analysis of a person's dreams, fantasies or imagination, personality type, and even drawing, painting, and sandplay.
We will work together on the problem that you are facing and within your personal and/or workplace context. My approach is to facilitate a meaningful, conscious, insightful and developmental relationship with yourself. We will also work creatively together with all aspects of your psychological and emotional patterns which aims to develop your awareness and bring change as you come to terms with your limits and potential.
Analysis. a long-term process which is directed toward an investigation of the client's unconscious, its contents and processes, in order to alleviate an emotional condition felt to be no longer tolerable because of its interferences with conscious living.
Coaching. a professional practice which facilitates the individuation process in organizational settings. A person becoming him/herself, whole, indivisible and distinct from other people or collective groups.
Dream analysis. dreams are recorded and brought to therapy for interpretation and to understand the meaning within the context from which they have arisen.
Active imagination. a process of 'dreaming with open eyes', which facilitates the engagement of the unconscious into conscious awareness.
Expressive therapy such as drawing, painting, sandplay. other creative ways to facilitate the engagement of the unconscious into the conscious mind, a non-verbal, therapeutic process that makes use of an individual's drawings, paintings, a sandbox using figures, and sometimes water, to create images, pictures or scenes of worlds which reflect an individual’s inner thoughts, struggles, and concerns.
Personality or psychological type. to become aware of one's personality type and others, to better understand the dynamic nature of their personality, and to open oneself up to personal growth.
What can you expect from Jungian Analysis?
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privacy
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confidentiality
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trust and integrity
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high standards of professionalism
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Jungian therapy and coaching requires long-term commitment and regularity. A minimum requirement is a weekly 50 minute session.
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each session is held in-person at the analyst's practice
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an in-depth discussion about what brings you to therapy
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cost of analysis, therapy or coaching is a fixed-fee payable after each session or on a monthly basis