Shadow Work
Meeting the disowned parts of the self with steadiness, until fear becomes fuel.
Shadow work begins from a simple observation: we are not just what we identify as. The parts we hide, deny, project onto others — the parts we are embarrassed by, attracted to, suspicious of — are part of the same person. They contain energy, intelligence, and gifts we have refused to claim.
The work can be slow, gentle, occasionally destabilising, and almost always rewarding. The point is not to expose yourself but to re-include what was excluded.
Where it can help
Repeated patterns in relationships, strong projections onto people (loved or hated), unexplained irritability, a sense of life being lived at half volume, low-grade shame.
Dream Analysis
Reading the nightly language of the psyche — images, motifs and recurring rooms.
Dreams are not puzzles to decode. They are the psyche speaking in image-language, in a register the waking mind cannot easily suppress. Most of the dreams you'll remember are working on something — they are showing you what your conscious mind cannot yet bear to think about directly.
Anna's methodology
I ask you to bring a remembered dream to the session. We slow it down, image by image. The cat on the staircase is not "you" or "your mother" — it is the cat on the staircase. From the concrete image, its meaning unfolds. I do not interpret; we amplify together.
Where it can help
Recurring dreams, vivid dreams after a period of change, dreams that feel charged with meaning, disturbed sleep not explained by stress.
Jungian Psychoanalysis
Long-form depth work tracing complexes to their root and their gift.
Jungian analysis is a long, careful, attentive form of therapy. It takes place — usually — on a couch, in a regular weekly slot, over months and years. The frame itself is part of the work: same time, same place, same person.
Anna's methodology
I work on the couch, in the classical Jungian setting, two to three times a week at moments of intensity and weekly for the long middle. I am interested in the transference — what the room does to you, what you put on me — as the central therapeutic event.
Psychodrama
Giving inner voices a stage, so what was abstract can finally be lived.
Psychodrama is a method developed by Jacob Moreno in which inner roles and figures are made physical. You become the protagonist of your own situation; others in the room play the parts — an internal critic, a dead parent, the version of yourself at eight years old.
Where it can help
Stuck grief, unfinished conversations with people who are absent or dead, internal conflict that lives in the body rather than the mind, repeating roles in relationships.
Active Imagination
A waking dialogue with inner figures — the oldest technique of the analytic tradition.
Active imagination is Jung's term for a deliberate, half-trance inner dialogue. You bring an image to mind — usually from a dream, sometimes spontaneously — and you let it speak. You write it down, paint it, enact it; the unconscious responds.
Anna's methodology
I occasionally guide clients through active imagination in session, but mostly I teach the method as a between-session practice. We agree on a figure; you commit to twenty minutes, three times a week, for six weeks.
Individuation
The slow return to a life shaped by your own centre rather than inherited scripts.
Individuation is the word Jung used for the long, lifelong process of becoming who you actually are — distinct from your family, your culture, your gender role, your persona. It is not the same as self-improvement.
Where it can help
Mid-life questions, religious and spiritual searching, vocation crises, the feeling that you have done everything that was asked of you and yet something essential is missing.
Archetypal Psychology
Locating your story inside older, larger stories — myth as orientation, not escape.
Archetypal psychology, in the lineage of James Hillman, takes the figure seriously: it is not a metaphor for something else; it is the something else. The dream of a wounded animal is not "about" your feeling of vulnerability. The wounded animal is that vulnerability.
Where it can help
When you feel possessed by an intensity you cannot source — anger, grief, attraction, dread. When your life is repeating a cultural story you don't quite believe in.