Nurturing the Imaginal Garden of the Individual and Collective Psyche
A practice that synthesizes a multi-disciplined therapeutic approach for the individual with the
most contemporary methods of Jungian psychology, archetypal disciplines, and psychoanalysis.
I am a certified Jungian Analyst with the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and a licensed psychotherapist. I practice a form of psychotherapy incorporating the most contemporary methods of Jungian psychotherapy, relational psychology, psychoanalysis, and symbolic thinking.
Whatever brings you to seek a consultation—curiosity, hope, spiritual quest, loss, anxiety, or relationship concerns—I believe these issues reflect your deeper being, signaling an opportunity for development and insight. Questions and concerns about our life often arise when existing and often limiting beliefs and attitudes are ready for change. Consultation provides an introspective dialogue uniquely tailored for you to discover your strengths and to explore the patterns that get in the way. Jungian analysis and psychotherapy encourage the light of awareness to help you develop your true self.
Yvonne Smith Tarnas PhD MFT
MFC#48043
The therapy often consists of multiple methods to fit a patient’s unique needs and aims. In my work with you, we will explore your beliefs and patterns that have inhibited you from living the life you seek. As a Jungian analyst, I pay attention to many different aspects of what you tell me, both past and present, in the form of symbols and patterns, images and dreams, to assess where your inner self is attempting to grow and be creative. Therapy provides a supportive and collaborative relationship that focuses on you – we observe, clarify, and challenge ideas and internal structures of passivity and attitudes that fear change. Together we focus on what compels and excites and is most alive in you to evoke curiosity, hope, and growth.
Relationships are a rich source for discovering our deepest selves, yet we must often also confront disappointment
and conflicts. Often we do not appreciate the value of our differences, and our beliefs and fantasies interfere with our ability to enjoy one another. In couples therapy, I will guide you both through a practice of active listening and reflective feedback where I help you and your partner learn how to expand and newly discover your capacity for intimacy. The tools you acquire in your
couples’ work can be relevant to every relationship in
your life: family, work, and friendships.
Please email me at archetypalpsych@gmail.com for further information and available session times.
Jungian Oriented Psychotherapy
The Symbolic Process
Jung Institute of San Francisco
October 2023
San Francisco
2182 Greenwich St
San Francisco, CA 94123
Marin
119 Ward Street
Larkspur, CA 94939
415-706-6173
"One must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
