My work is depth psychology and is Jungian based. Whether you are working with an illness of the body or the mind, it is important to understand the role of healing in your life, and how it can lead to transformation. Here in Aspen, healing work is part of what a therapist or counselor can do for you, but it can take on many definitions.Whether in a one-on-one setting or through couples counseling, remember that healing may come in surprising ways.When people think of healing, they sometimes think that entails that their problems will be taken away or gone forever. But simply removing the problem may not be the answer.

This may seem silly, but it’s important to note that the same holds true for more abstract concepts like therapy and counseling. In considering the problems and challenges you are struggling with, do you want to remove them? Or, do you want to transform them? What does that mean? First, what you see as a problem might not be one. Through patience and deep analysis you may discover a different path through your problems and a different way of looking at them. This is where true transformation can take place, in your heart and in your very being.

For example, throughout the centuries, many shamans and medicine people, the wise elders of their tribes and those considered being magical beings that were in this world and not of it – these people often struggled early on in life with great difficulties and problems. Some of them, in today’s modern world, would have been considered to have minds broken beyond repair. They would have been diagnosed with modern diseases like autism and epilepsy.And yet, if you think about it, were these really “problems”? Or were they gifts that enabled them to reach a new level, a new and different experience, and go to a new place to bring back information and healing for those who sought them out?