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A Jungian approach to

Integrative Therapies and Healing Practices

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Jungian Psychology: A Path to Wholeness

What You Can Expect as a Client

As a client working within this framework you’ll experience a blend of therapeutic techniques that go beyond traditional talk therapy. Sessions are a supportive space to dive deep into the layers of your psyche, where you’ll:

Explore Dreams and Symbols

Your dreams are rich sources of unconscious material. We’ll work together to explore the symbols that arise in your inner and outer life, helping you gain insights into unresolved conflicts and potential paths forward.

Uncover Unconscious Complexes

Many struggles—whether they manifest as anxiety, depression, or difficulties in relationships—stem from unconscious beliefs and emotions that center around an archetypal core and are developed early in life. By identifying and working through these, you’ll have the opportunity to break free from limitations and unfulfilling patterns.

Integrate the Shadow

Jung believed that everyone has a “shadow”—the parts of ourselves that we deny, avoid, or reject. Often, these aspects hold valuable energy and potential for growth. Together, we’ll explore your shadow and work toward integrating these hidden parts into your conscious life allowing you to become more whole and authentic.

Discover Activated Archetypes

Archetypes are universal patterns or themes that arise in myths, stories, and within ourselves. Through the lens of Jungian psychology, we’ll explore the archetypal roles and narratives that shape your life and how they can provide guidance on your journey toward self-discovery and integration. Jung wisely said that “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

Find Meaning in Life Transitions

Depth psychology views major life transitions—such as career changes, relationship shifts, or personal crises—as opportunities for growth and transformation. We’ll work together to uncover the hidden opportunities within these liminal places.

Integrating Jung with other Therapeutic Approaches

An integrative approach means that Depth Psychology is combined with other therapeutic modalities such as Internal Family Systems (IFS), cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness practices, EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), and a range of Somatic therapies. This dynamic framework allows you to address both the conscious and unconscious aspects of your experience offering a well-rounded path to healing.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are Carl Jung

Contact me to explore how I can support your emotional healing.

UPCOMING RETREAT is open for applications

BilateralDepth™ Integration Journey through Cambodia

Jan 3-11, 2027

A Different Kind of Retreat 

Cambodia is a land shaped by profound beauty, rupture, and resilience. This retreat offers a carefully held container for engaging that complexity through a depth psychological lens and ethical cultural immersion. It is an invitation to witness history, psyche, and place in an embodied relationship.

Overview

In a world marked by increasing pace and polarity, this journey offers something intentionally different. It sits at the intersection of intentional travel and facilitated inner work—neither a standard retreat nor a curated tour.

This is a thoughtfully guided experience where cultural immersion and personal insight are woven together, held within a rhythm that supports reflection, inner work, and integration.

Rather than a series of repeated interventions, the experience is structured around a number of deeply held core practices of facilitated experiential learning, allowing depth, continuity, and meaning to emerge over time.

  • BilateralDepth™ workshop
  • Depth informed reflective workshops
  • Family constellation workshop  
  • Cacao ceremony
  • Jungian Dreamwork Workshop 
  • Intuitive paint and pour
  • Somatic movement 
  • Meditation
  • Yoga Nidra 
  • Mysore Ashtanga yoga practice

Each element is offered within a container that supports integration. Daily life weaves together extended cultural excursions, facilitated depth work, and creative integration.

This retreat approaches Cambodia not as a destination, but as a relationship. Participants are invited into a way of traveling rooted in listening. Through guided cultural engagement, excursions deepen an understanding of Cambodia as a living system—shaped by community, resilience, and adaptation.

  • Phenom Phen Night Market
  • Tuol Sleng (S-21) Genocide Museum and Killing Fields 
  • Silk island day trip 
  • Angkor Wat & Bayan temple 
  • Engage APOPO’s Landmine Rats non-profit  
  • Waterfall hike in Phnom Kulen National Park
  • Bantey Srey Temple
  • Siem Riep Circus
  • Butterfly Sanctuary 

Phnom Penh: Historical Orientation & Witnessing  

Our journey begins in Phnom Penh, with a guided city tour and grounded orientation to Cambodia’s modern history and the impact of the Khmer Rouge. This includes visits to Tuol Sleng (S-21) Genocide Museum and the Killing Fields which are approached with great care. Next we will spend a gentle day on Silk Island, just outside Phnom Penh, wandering quiet village paths, watching silk woven by hand, and feeling the pace of life slow. One night is devoted to the richness of the Mekong River night market, while the remainder of our evenings unfold at The Bale—our Phnom Penh sanctuary—where shared dinners and depth workshops support the kind of integration that allows insight to become embodied change.

Siem Reap & Angkor: Sacred Architecture & Living Systems 

In the second chapter, we arrive at Navutu—our retreat accommodations in Siem Reap. Nearby, the Angkor temples reveal themselves not as monuments, but as living spaces of reflection and imagination. At sunrise, Angkor Wat’s stone corridors and carved faces hold a quiet field.

The experience extends beyond Angkor into the surrounding life and landscape: an evening at the Cambodian Circus, a waterfall hike through Phnom Kulen National Park, and a visit to a butterfly sanctuary—restoring movement, play, and connection to the land. Time spent with APOPO’s Landmine Rats, a locally led Cambodian nonprofit, deepens this relational approach, offering lived insight into trauma recovery, education, and community resilience at a systems level.

Cambodia is a land of profound beauty and depth. Home to Angkor Wat — considered one of the great wonders of the world; it carries ancient wisdom, artistry, and a spiritual presence that can still be felt today. It has also lived through immense darkness, including the Khmer Rouge genocide. What is extraordinary is that alongside this history, the Cambodian people remain known for their warmth, generosity, joy, and deep humanity. To witness how light and resilience live alongside grief and loss is a powerful lived experience.

In a time when the world feels increasingly stretched between extremes; violence and compassion, fear and hope, disconnection and longing — this journey offers a grounded way of being with complexity. Held in a safe, well-facilitated container by experienced professionals, this retreat invites participants to slow down, reconnect, and learn from a rich culture that embodies integration, dignity, and heart.

Meet the Facilitators:

Ankea Phem, Catherine Smith, Michelle Kucera-Jewell, Michael Jewell

Pricing includes: lodging, daily depth integration workshops, guided tours and entrance fees, – dinners, – lunches, transportation Jan 4-10, Mysore ashtanga yoga practice, daily somatic movement, cacao ceremony, intuitive paint and pour, bilateral depth integration and dream Process, family constellations workshop, Jungian Dream workshop. 

Pricing does not include: airfare, visa, transport to and from airports, travel insurance (required), private sessions with facilitators

$4,800 per person

$3,800 per person when you sign up with a companion and share a room.      

 

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL

Payment due in full by July 1, 2027 for eligibility to enjoy the Early Bird discounted rate 

$4,500 per person

$3,500 per person when you sign up with a companion and share a room.    

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“Catherine made all the difference in my journey through depression and back to health. I have loved the way she integrates mindfulness practices with her therapy to help me navigate day to day challenges.”

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