“Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.
I will meet you there.”
- Rumi
there is a field.
I will meet you there.”
- Rumi
Welcome. I’m glad you’re here!
My name is Cathy. I am an Inner Depth Work Jungian-based Life Coach located in Charlottesville, Virginia. For over 50 years, I have been exploring the questions my Psyche (soul) is asking. Through decades of education, training, and certification, I have landed as an Inner Depth Work Jungian-based Life Coach. I enjoy hearing and reflecting on peoples Stories and their history, and reflecting back to them what I hear and see—which is to bear witness to their Soul and the story they are in.
It is my life’s passion and love to journey with others in their path toward wholeness, deep connection with their life, and awakening their consciousness. Carl Jung, who established depth psychology and whose teachings permeate our culture, often likened the Soul unto a house. In this house there are many rooms, hallways, aspects, and features. Some of them we visit often, others we haven’t touched in years. Together, we will explore the self as a house, recognizing and owning that it is a whole entity and that all parts belong, even the rooms you haven’t entered since a young child. Especially those rooms. That’s where the gold is found.
As a Life Coach, I utilize a variety of “wisdom tools” such as the Enneagram, dream exploration, poetry, guided contemplative exercises, and above all, deep listening and reflection to my client’s deepest, truest self. By this illuminating process, a person comes into a newfound relationship with themself. The work we do together is liberating, healing, and arguably, addresses the most important task of our lives: becoming our truest, most whole self.
It is my life’s passion and love to journey with others in their path toward wholeness, deep connection with their life, and awakening their consciousness. Carl Jung, who established depth psychology and whose teachings permeate our culture, often likened the Soul unto a house. In this house there are many rooms, hallways, aspects, and features. Some of them we visit often, others we haven’t touched in years. Together, we will explore the self as a house, recognizing and owning that it is a whole entity and that all parts belong, even the rooms you haven’t entered since a young child. Especially those rooms. That’s where the gold is found.
As a Life Coach, I utilize a variety of “wisdom tools” such as the Enneagram, dream exploration, poetry, guided contemplative exercises, and above all, deep listening and reflection to my client’s deepest, truest self. By this illuminating process, a person comes into a newfound relationship with themself. The work we do together is liberating, healing, and arguably, addresses the most important task of our lives: becoming our truest, most whole self.
Combining Depth Work and Life Coaching
Depth work centers around recognizing, honoring, and inquiring into a person's wholeness. Particularly, depth work directly explores a person’s inner landscape of the “psyche” (the Greek word for “Soul”). Carl Jung developed a time-honored approach to help humans access this psyche and glean from its wisdom, shine light and consciousness on its hidden aspects, and to above all, connect with this central aspect of self to grow into the fullness of who we are. Over the past century, many teachers have come and refined and added nuance to Jung’s approach.
This approach uses images, dreams, myths, archetypes, parables, reflections, questions, somatic (body+mind) experiencing, and interactions with wild natural phenomena to assist a person unearth their whole self.
Jungian Coaching puts the psyche/souls desires at the heart of the work. We each have a unique drive and path for our individuation before us, mostly the process of psychological growth and wholeness (not perfection). All of us have longing to connect to our deeper Self and Jungian coaching offers this renewed connection and transformation process to a wholeness of Being. I myself through years of this process work and development have experienced this, and I offer that work to others for a long-term transformation of who we are at our core—letting go and releasing who we are not or have outgrown!
Through Jungian depth work and coaching, I help others with deep thought provoking processes and aid in creative processes that inspire them to maximize their best human self, no only for themselves but also for the families, communities, and workplaces on our paths. My role as a coach is to help you feel reconnection to your life’s purpose. This renewed connection had a long-term transformative effect on the well-being and performance (energy).
This approach uses images, dreams, myths, archetypes, parables, reflections, questions, somatic (body+mind) experiencing, and interactions with wild natural phenomena to assist a person unearth their whole self.
Jungian Coaching puts the psyche/souls desires at the heart of the work. We each have a unique drive and path for our individuation before us, mostly the process of psychological growth and wholeness (not perfection). All of us have longing to connect to our deeper Self and Jungian coaching offers this renewed connection and transformation process to a wholeness of Being. I myself through years of this process work and development have experienced this, and I offer that work to others for a long-term transformation of who we are at our core—letting go and releasing who we are not or have outgrown!
Through Jungian depth work and coaching, I help others with deep thought provoking processes and aid in creative processes that inspire them to maximize their best human self, no only for themselves but also for the families, communities, and workplaces on our paths. My role as a coach is to help you feel reconnection to your life’s purpose. This renewed connection had a long-term transformative effect on the well-being and performance (energy).
Curious? Head here to check out what the next steps are and to schedule a free, half an hour discovery call with me.
Who is Depth Work and Life Coaching for?
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are”
C.G. Jung
C.G. Jung
To truly know one’s soul and purpose on this planet in an intimate way is the inheritance of every human being. I recognize throughout history that this work has been done with and for the people who have the privilege and resources to access it, and that this is unjust. It is my hope that psyche/soul could be the unifying ground that all varieties of people can stand on and embrace one another at great depth. I recognize that the color of my skin has given me a particular subjective experience of our culture that is blind to the experience of many others. I am committed to engaging these realities and more as I learn along the way. As a life coach and human soul, there is no gender, skin color, life circumstance, cultural stigma, orientation, ethnicity, or -ism, that I am not willing to journey alongside with. If you are a person of color, LGBTQ+, or generally identify as a person who has been marginalized in any way by our culture—you and your whole story and self are welcome here.
My hope is that this work will spread to all communities and peoples.
As Carl Jung said, “no one can make history/herstory who is not willing to risk everything for it, to carry the experiment with her own life through to the bitter end, and to declare that her life is not a continuation of the past, but a new beginning.”
My hope is that this work will spread to all communities and peoples.
As Carl Jung said, “no one can make history/herstory who is not willing to risk everything for it, to carry the experiment with her own life through to the bitter end, and to declare that her life is not a continuation of the past, but a new beginning.”
“Until you make the unconscious
conscious, it will direct your life
and you will call it fate.”
- C.G. Jung
conscious, it will direct your life
and you will call it fate.”
- C.G. Jung
Jungian Depth Work and the Rhythms of Life
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My approach to this role is not to give you answers or do all the “work” for you. That wouldn't be very fulfilling for either of us. In fact, when it comes to answers, I'm far more fascinated and focused on their questions. As many psychological teachers implore us: “live the question!”
This seems so counter-intuitive for our culture that loves a good statistic, an immediately microwavable solution, and closure to any sort of discomfort at the speed of a text message. Know this, though: the human soul is first and foremost a being of the natural world—like the willow tree, a quartz deposit, or Turkey Tail mushroom—and as such, the soul abides by the rhythms of nature. Unlike the 24-hour news cycle, the rhythms of nature happen to be impressively slow and gentle in their story arc. If one is to begin the journey of depth work, one must begin to unlearn our cultural obsession with fast answers and cultivate a deep contentment with slow questions. Trust me—life, everything, feels better this way. |
Trametes versicolor, Turkey Tail Mushroom
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms
and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms
and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
Are you curious about Jungian Depth Work?
Head here to check out what the next steps are and to schedule a free, half an hour discovery call with me.
Ancient Tools of the self
for Modern Times
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Enneagram Wisdom
Jungian Depth Work Dream Exploration The Mystic’s path of all faiths Synchronicities Symbols |
Contemplative Practices
Myth & Story Deep Listening Interfaith Awareness Active Imagination Embodiment |