Hey y’all
I’m Clay, a professional counselor and Jungian Analyst in training. I do Jungian analysis, as well as intuitive work like symbol exploration and divination.
I could not imagine myself as a healer - wounded or otherwise, I did not have dreams of being a therapist, or felt that I could help anybody.
Actually, it was the opposite.
For a long time, I was a "problem child." I lived with the heavy sense that I was lesser than, convinced that I couldn't succeed in school or be anything positive in the world. I spent those years caught in painful cycles, drinking and fighting, myself and others.
When I was 21, my world hit a wall. A drunk driving accident left me in a coma for three months. I spent the next several years bedbound, undergoing intensive therapy to relearn how to walk, talk, and function.
I was forced into a world that I could no longer deny. I was terrified to look at myself, where I was and how I got there. I was miserable and hopelessly stuck.
My recovery became a search for meaning. I plunged into Western and Eastern philosophy, seeking a roadmap. I knew I wanted to work with "at-risk" youth - a population that included me - and decided to become a counselor.
During my graduate training, I met a Jungian analyst who changed the trajectory of my life. She planted a seed in me: the idea that becoming myself was not just possible, but one of the most important things I could ever do. That encounter felt "synchronous.” A positive tug from the universe that I was finally moving in the right direction. It was a feeling of meaning I had never allowed myself to experience before.
Analysis showed me where to go if I was going to find my meaning and trust it, allowing me to process the painful cycles I was caught in. Analysis helped me to feel into my life. To hold myself, and the symbols, dreams, and synchronicities in my life as valuable.
This opened the door to practices like dream interpretation and active imagination, and systems like the I Ching and tarot. Engaging with these practices has helped me identify, trust, and move toward wholeness.
Today, after a decade as a counselor and in my own analysis, I am in the final stages of an arduous 10-year process to become an accredited Jungian Psychoanalyst. That process guided me into myself and left me with a passion on helping others meet, and find, their most whole selves.
How We Work Together
For everyone, there are present problems in our life today that circle our earliest experiences and relationships. Traumas big and small enlarge and twist those cycles in our lives.
The more we can feel and process, the more we untwist ourselves, allowing our energy and ourselves to flow more smoothly through life.
My work is about helping you untwist and process those cycles. Whether we are interpreting a dream, using the I Ching or tarot cards for guidance, or engaging in Jungian Analysis.