After multiple tours of duty in Vietnam as a combat medic, Sensei Mui was ordained in Thailand as a Buddhist monk in the Forest Tradition practicing for ten years. He eventually took a Doctorate in Buddhist Studies (DBS) at the Pāli Institute in Sri Lanka and returned to the United States and later awarded a PhD in psycholinguistics. During the past fifty years Sensei has studied and been in ordained in multiple Buddhist disciplines yet always filtering these teachings through the lens of the original teachings. Sensei acts as a Buddhist therapist utilizing meditation as a tool to foster emotional and cognitive well-being. He works with both individuals and groups in both private and corporate settings. For more information, please visit www.hongaku.net.

Anne E. Beall is the author of the book, Cinderella Didn’t Live Happily Ever After, and will soon publish a new book, Only Prince Charming Gets to Break the Rules. She is also the CEO and founder of Beall Research, a strategic market research company in Chicago. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from Yale University and is the author of ten books. You can learn more about her at www.AnneBeall.com and www.BeallResearch.com.

Ken Aaron Burnstein LCSW has been studying Jung for over 30 years. He runs a private practice in Oak Park where he provides individual, group, and couple therapy. Ken works with adults (ages 20-75+) helping them develop a core of self and a meaningful connection to soul. He has a keen interest in combining spirituality with music; he facilitates a music meditation group, and regularly leads music for religious services.

Rose graduated from Pacifica Graduate Institute with a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and along the way, found alternative coaching methods to help people effectively reduce stress, gain insight, and move through life’s many challenges with more support and ease.   For 30 years she’s taught people ways to relax and improve health as an Ayurveda Health Practitioner. She completed her Marriage and Family Counselor Internship in Oakland, California, where she worked at JFK Counseling Center and worked and trained in John Bradshaw’s Inner Child Healing at the Center for Creative Growth in Berkeley, California. She has worked with individuals suffering from trauma in Southern Oregon. In the 1980’s, she attended Maharishi European University where she studied Vedic Science in Vlodrop, Holland, and was made a meditation instructor by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. She mentored with master Ayurvedic healer, Vaidya Ramakant Mishra, and was invited into his family lineage of Ayurvedic Healers in specializing in Ayurvedic Detox called Panchakarma.  She lives in the Chicago area where she offers Insight Coaching, Delving Deep  Turiya Meditation, and Ayurvedic Preventive Health Services for Highly Sensitive People.

Menachem is a spiritual director, inter-spiritual rabbi & tabletop game designer. Much of his work is in the design & use of games for growth, exploration & healing.

Menachem has a special commitment to queer people, polyamorous people, sex-workers, and the kink/fetish community. Not because people in these communities need to be saved, rather in his time in/with them he has seen people not feeling comfortable or safe asking for spiritual care and being passed over and ignored by those providing spiritual care. He works with people of all faiths and no faith. Many are spiritual but not religious.

Menachem has played TTRPGs for 42+ years. He earned a Graduate Certificate in Spiritual Direction from Loyola University and received rabbinic ordination at Hebrew Seminary.

Most important, he is a dad.

Find more about Menachem at https://linktr.ee/menachemcohen.

Pat Coughlin, LCPC, is a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago. She has taught elementary and high school and spent twenty-two years teaching wonderfully diverse groups of participants at the Institute for Spiritual Leadership in its spiritual direction training program. She also trained as a pastoral psychotherapist at the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy in Chicago and practiced as a therapist for twenty years. Her interest in dreams has been a constant and she has given dream courses and workshops all over the world. She has an M.A. in English, an MPS in Pastoral Studies from Loyola University Chicago and a Doctor of Ministry from the Chicago Theological Seminary. She is a fellow of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois.

Biljana Cvejin, Psy.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She completed graduate training at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology then went on to focus more specifically on learning the theories of Carl Jung. Interpreting the world through Jungian lenses is now second nature to her. After years of conducting a private practice, she now incorporates this perspective in her work with Veterans.

Louise Dimiceli-Mitran is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Board-Certified Music Therapist and a Primary Trainer in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery & Music (GIM) with the Therapeutic Arts Institute. She has maintained a private practice in Chicago focusing on the use of GIM and its adaptations for 18 years, using the transformational power of music to improve quality of life and healing energy in her clients. Louise spent 15 years as an oncology specialist/music therapist at Advocate’s Lutheran General and Illinois Masonic Hospitals. She has written book chapters and articles on GIM, is past president of the Association for Music and Imagery (AMI) and has presented at many professional conferences and workshops across the country and in Canada. Her guided imagery & relaxation CD is titled Consciously Creating Wellness: Light and Nourishment and is available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/louisedimicelimitran.

Barbara Friedman is a Jungian analyst and licensed clinical psychologist. She is also certified in addictions counseling and is a certified yoga instructor. Barbara has devoted many years to the study and practice of spiritual wisdom traditions. She is the published author of several articles and a book, Partners in Healing: Redistributing the Power in the Counselor Client Relationship. She is a founding member of the C. G. Jung Educational Center of Cleveland and was president of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. She is a national presenter and is in private practice in Chicago, Illinois.

Shelly Gessler, she/her, is licensed, clinical, mental-health counselor, offering adult and couples psychotherapy in-person and through telehealth in IL and through telehealth in WA. She strives to create an empathic bond built on trust and understanding, so clients feel free to explore historical causes of psychological issues, such as trauma, mood stability, life transitions, and clients’ relationship to self and others. She uses a holistic approach, based on presenting needs, and incorporates creative as well as empirical methods. Having specialties in trauma care, including trauma sensitive yoga and EMDR, as well as Jungian psychotherapy, she meets clients where they’re at, so therapy remains invitational, insightful, and beneficial. Those aha moments are what therapy is all about. Shelly cherishes and embraces human diversity. She may be reached at Willow Therapeutic.

Laura V. Grace, Ph.D. (c), is the producer of the Central Coast Women’s Symposium and Jungian practitioner in San Luis Obispo. As an active member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Laura has taught more than two hundred courses on the transforming power of nighttime dreams. Her Waking Dreaming™ and Somatic Dream Expression™ methodologies embody the soma/psyche/spirit connection and teaches dreamers how dream images, being alive in the body, can be used for healing and transformation. Laura is currently getting her doctorate in Depth Psychology and Somatic Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA and just finished writing a book on dreams titled Dreams: Soul-Centered Living in the 21st Century, A Depth Psychological and Somatic Approach to Transformation. www.lauragrace.net, www.centralcoastwomen.com

Nadia Greenspan spent the first part of her life blindly following someone else’s rules that she was told would make her happy, until she realized that being a “good girl” left her feeling utterly empty and exhausted. She is now working daily on becoming her own woman. Nadia is a psychotherapist, an improviser and an acting instructor. She is also a vegan and a practicing witch. Besides working with her patients, her most rewarding job in life is being a mother to three strong and outspoken young women.

Keralee is an artist, musician, yoga teacher and writer facilitating community yoga and art adventures throughout Chicago since 2000. With a background in theater and dance, Keralee believes that art as an exploratory and revelational practice creates and sustains individual growth as well as community joy, beauty and vibrance. Most recently she has been performing as a musician as well as facilitating meditation, breath-work and yoga workshops in Chicago, online and in Mexico.

Jill Howe is the producer of Story Sessions, a showcase at City Winery featuring true stories and live music. She has facilitated monthly storytelling groups for the last eight years, teaches Story Sessions cabin writing retreats, and presented a Tedx Talk focusing on vulnerability through storytelling. She has shared her stories at City Winery, Second City, Schubas, the 1871 Lab at the Merchandise Mart, Lincoln Hall, Stage 773, Park West, Wilmette Theatre, Skokie Theater, Uncommon Ground, The Gorton Center, and many more. She’s been featured on NPR for Vocalo Radio, Tedx Naperville, the national Mortified podcast, the Chicagoist, The Reader, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Now, Ignite Chicago, Fillet of Solo, Tellin’ Tales Festival, Pygmallion Festival in Champaign/Urbana, Thread Literary Magazine, BP Hope Magazine, Women for Wellness podcast, and The Bughouse Debates at Newberry Library. With a Masters in Teaching, Jill has been a CPS high school English teacher and is now is an educational specialist in Glencoe, focusing on writing. Jill is also a resident storyteller at the Field Museum and loves a good animal story.

Caren Jeskey has been a student of meditation since her college years, and a student and teacher of yoga for over 20 years. She is an LCSW level psychotherapist and a graduate of the University of Chicago, and she continues to receive regular guidance and training as a clinician. She maintains her clinical license in Texas and Illinois and currency conducts TeleHealth CBT and mindfulness based therapy in both states.

Until the pandemic struck, Caren was teaching various wellness classes at the Lake Austin Spa Resort in Austin, Texas including a sleep hygiene classes called Beditation, and Flute & Float where students floated on memory foam mats in a warm pool while Caren led them through sound healing journeys with live flute music. Caren also collaborates with a fellow LCSW and artist, Hart Ginsburg with a film project called Digital Tapestries, which leads people through a process that deepens ones’ sense of belonging, presence and compassion towards themselves and others. Caren most recently offered this experience as a CEU at the Carl Jung Center in the Chicago area in early 2019 when it was still safe to travel.

Caren places self-care above all else and is passionate about sharing this skill with clients and students. Caren believes that a world of people who love and care for themselves is a better place to be.

Paul J. Kachoris, MD, is a triple boarded certified child, adolescent, adult psychiatrist in the “original” practice of psychiatry: treating the whole person with both eclectic psychodynamic psychotherapy for the psyche (mind) and with psychotropic medications for the brain as needed.  He has been in continuous psychiatric practice for nearly fifty years.  During his professional career, he has held multiple clinical, educational, teaching, academic and administrative positions in both inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings. Presently he devotes himself to his outpatient psychiatric practice, and pursuing his interests in poetry writing and publishing, the humanities, neuroscience, men’s studies and Victories of Heart/Victories for Men. To learn more about Paul, visit http://paulkachoris.com.

Originally from New York, Jane Kamerling moved to the Chicago area in 1971. Prior to moving, Jane worked in Psychiatric hospital, Norristown State Hospital in Philadelphia, and as a Probation Officer in Prince George Maryland. She graduated with a masters degree in social work in 1977 and worked for Lake County Special Education and then Elgin School District U-46 as a school social worker. Jane began private practice in 1983 specializing in teenagers. In 1987 she enrolled in the Analytic Training Program and graduated in 1993. Her practice focuses on Individual therapy, adults and teenagers and also has training in couples and family therapy. Jane is a faculty member of the Analytic Training Program and Co-Director of the Clinical Training Program at the Jung Institute of Chicago.

John Knapp is a licensed psychologist who received his doctorate in clinical psychology with an emphasis in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. There, he received training in psychodynamic, Jungian, and phenomenological treatment modalities. He practiced in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for 8 years where he worked in residential, partial hospitalization, and private practice settings before moving to Illinois.

John has lectured internationally on topics related to psychology and the Holocaust, and he continues to pursue research interests related to the psychological significance of the Holocaust and the nuclear bomb. He has a particular expertise and interest in psychodynamic Jungian and post-Jungian therapy and analysis, i.e., the works of Carl Jung, James Hillman, and Wolfgang Giegerich, as well as a thoughtful and comprehensive approach to exploring one’s dream life. His newest interest is in philosophical dialectics as it is applied to psychology. John is also the co-editor of the forthcoming book entitled, Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority: ‘The Psychological Difference’ in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich. He enjoys tennis, fishing, traveling, and glassblowing outside of his passion as a psychotherapist.

Sheryl Kosovski is a certified Financial Recovery Counselor and Business Coach. She teaches her clients how to create lasting financial security without depriving themselves in the process. She helps them see their value so they come to believe they are worthy of more. That is why she named her company Self-Worth.coach.

Sheryl works with individuals and couples as well as entrepreneurs, including therapists who love what they do but aren’t confident about their business or financial skills. She helps them plan for their financial success, get and stay out of debt, and grow their businesses.

She has helped thousands of clients see that by taking care of their money they can better take care of themselves and the people they love. Sheryl’s first career was as a visual artist.  She uses art and creativity in all the work she does.

Thomas Lavin, PhD, is a Zurich trained Jungian analyst and licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Wilmette, Illinois. He completed his training in both clinical psychology and theology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and is a founding member of the C. G. Jung Institute in Chicago. Tom’s area of expertise is religion and spirituality in the clinical context.

Elizabeth Londo has worked in a variety of settings aligning strategic planning with employee performance, systems and processes. She has worked as an internal and external consultant, as an Executive Director in a not-for-profit, and in a management education center in a private university. She was also a partner in the firm that developed the first management simulations used in executive education. Most recently, Elizabeth was Director of Organizational Development in a family-run manufacturing business. She is currently starting her own company focusing on services for start up companies.

Jackie has advanced degrees in humanistic gerontology, art history and music history. She has been a member of the faculties of Harvard University, M.I.T., Sarah Lawrence College, Brown University and Columbia University. She is Professor Emerita of Arizona State University and past President of Barnard College in New York City. For nearly twenty years she has taught, lectured and written about the theories and experiences of late life development. She was the co-developer of the MA in Gerontology program at Northeastern Illinois University and established the Program in Creative Aging at the Jung Institute of Chicago. From 2000 through 2006 she was the Executive Director and Director of Public Programs of The C. G. Jung Center in Evanston where she served on the Board of Trustees through 2014. She now serves as a Board Member Emeritus.

Laura has been an analyst for over 34 years. She received a B.A. in 1963 in Liberal Arts from Northwestern University where she majored in English Literature. She went on to receive her M.A. in 1978 in Communication Science at Governors State University, where she specialized in groups: Theories and Practice. In 1989, she received her Diploma as a Jungian Analyst from the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago and went on to become an active member of the Institute, eventually becoming Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Institute in 1994. When the Institute separated into two entities, she became Chair of the Board of Trustees of the newly formed “C.G. Jung Center” and now is a Trustee Emeritus.

Diane is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with a Masters degree in Counseling as well as a Masters in Pastoral Studies, both from Loyola University.  She is a graduate of the Clinical Training Program (CTP), a two-year certification program in Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy from the C G Jung Institute in Chicago.  Diane has served as a Clinic Therapist, Intake Coordinator, Volunteer therapist and member of the Clinic Committee at the Jung Center where she also facilitates monthly dream groups.  She has a private practice in Barrington, IL.

Peter Mudd is a Jungian analyst practicing in Evanston, Illinois. He served as the Executive Director of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago for 19 years and as Director of Studies for the Chicago Institute’s Analyst Training Program for 10 years. He has offered seminars and workshops on a wide range of Jungian topics throughout North America and abroad and held the position of Associate Editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology. Peter has served on the board of the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism and as its President and Treasurer, as well as on the boards of other Jungian organizations. Long interested in organizational and leadership dynamics, he has provided consultation to organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies to local not-for-profit services.

John Pallas is a graduate of the Jungian Studies Program at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, and a Therapy Intern and Data Scientist at Archive Therapy, a healthcare consulting and depth therapy practice. His work focuses on religious and psychological theories of mysticism, madness, and suicidality, and quantitative approaches to mental health services research.

Linda Plamondon is a registered art therapist who brings a Jungian perspective to her work in   addiction and spiritual direction by way of dreams and creative play. She is a graduate of the Clinical Training Program at the CG Jung Institute of Chicago, holds graduate degrees in Pastoral Studies from Loyola University, and in Art Therapy and Counseling Psychology with specialization in Chemical Dependency from Adler University, Chicago.

Anne Redlich is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist practicing in Chicago with children, adults and adolescents. Anne has been a serious student of both Freud and Jung and studied in the Analyst Training Program at the Jung Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Anne has also studied astrology and theosophy as well as eastern philosophy. Anne considers herself to be a free thinker and refuses to characterize her work and interests under any one school of thought. At the University of Michigan, Anne earned her B.A. in Medical Anthropology and Psychology where she studied with Keewaydinoquay, an Ojibwe Shaman and Ethnobotanist. Anne uses her broad education to inform her psychoanalytic practice and help those she works with to heal through the wisdom of their dreams and unconscious material.

Meg has worked as a school social worker for the past fourteen years. As an early champion for working to incorporate social emotional learning as an essential component of the school day, Meg has come to understand it is literally the foundation for all learning. Meg has described herself as a compassion warrior and passionate advocate for teacher well-being. Meg attributes her mindfulness in schools training as the catalyst for her focus on “the inner life of the teacher” and how this affects student learning.

Dan Ross has worked in the field of Hospice for over 20 years and in health care for over 30 years. His interest in analytical psychology grew from his work with dying patients and in 2008 he completed the Clinical Training Program at the Jung Institute of Chicago. He has since committed himself to the integration of Jungian psychotherapy in hospice care and to the training of clinicians as well as the public in the principles of analytical psychology. He serves as a Volunteer Therapist at The C. G. Jung Center.

Jay Semmler holds an MS in Environmental Engineering, and an MA in Consciousness Studies and has recently retired in order to pursue metaphysical interests. He has completed coursework in Astrology in the following categories: a variety of Astrology classes through Higher Self Astrology; Esoteric Astrology through correspondence course with Phillip Lindsay; correspondence courses through White Eagle Lodge; and is in the final stage of completing requirements for Jeffery’s Green’s School of Evolutionary Astrology DVD correspondence course. He is certified as Teacher of Esoteric Studies, and Spiritual Mentoring through Sancta Sophia Seminary.

Jessica Lynn Shell is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Board Certified Art Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher and Certified Prenatal Yoga Teacher. Jessica implements a holistic approach to therapy– involving expressive arts, cognitive-behavioral techniques, horticulture and wildlife, yoga and mindfulness practices — for healing and health. She works with children, adolescents, adults, families and groups. Through SageWillow.com, Jessica offers therapeutic services in Illinois (virtual) and California (San Diego county) – including individual mental health, group therapy, expressive art workshops and professional training. Jessica’s passion for the arts inspired JessicaLynnCreations.com where she shares her handcrafted designs– crochet, paintings, drawings, photography, apparel, crafts, décor and accessories.

Irv Siegel came to know about Jung over 20 years ago and has become a strong supporter of the Jung Center. Irv is enthusiastic about sharing his passion for film and making Jungian topics available to the public. He is especially interested in the process of individuation and exploring how people find the inner strength to make conscious decisions during significant crossroads in their lives.

Marsha Smith is a psychotherapist and trainer who works with adults, couples and adolescents. She combines mindful, empathic and practical approaches to help with a variety of psychological and social challenges. She helps people move past blocks, get unstuck, feel more balanced, feel less angry, anxious or depressed, and have more ease in decision making and enjoyment in relationships. With an empathic, therapeutic relationship and focus on inner experience, she supports people tapping into more of their resources of feeling and thinking to bring new insights and steps for solving problems. She teaches mindfulness and body-mind therapies such as Focusing in workshops and to individuals and also supervises and trains health care professionals. Visit www.marshasmithcounseling for more information on her work.

Mary Theis is a Volunteer Therapist at The C. G. Jung Center and a member of the Clinic Committee. She has a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Notre Dame and studied for a time at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. She is also affiliated with Apple Farm Community in Three Rivers Michigan and has a private practice in conjunction with Apple Farm.

Nancy VanKanegan has worked as an artist and teacher in Chicago for 30 years. Her students range in age from grade school to grad school. Creating diagrams, or mind maps, for complex plans and relationships has long been a part of her teaching and practice.

Karol Weigelt is a therapist and spiritual director in the Chicago area. She facilitates dream groups as part of her work with clients and interested individuals. She has done research in the area of dream work technique and theory and has served as adjunct faculty at Loyola University.

Carolyn Kelley Williams has kept journals as a creative discipline all her life.   Dedicated to the Intensive Journal program since 1985, she studied with Dr. Progoff, its creator, becoming a Registered Journal Consultant in 1991.   She is a published poet, novelist, and stained-glass artist.  A founding member of the performance ensemble World Enough & Time, she has presented programs of original poetry and music in theatres, churches, and coffee houses throughout the Midwest.  Her books of poems, Inexhaustible Offering: Lincoln Park Mornings, and Rebirth of Wonder: Epiphanies at Winter Solstice, are available on Amazon.  Her novel, The Realm of Persephone, is in press, to be released in the fall of 2022.  For more than 30 years, she was Senior Editor of Publications in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Medical School and Managing Editor of The International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. She lives in Arizona, where she continues her writing, teaching, and stained-glass art.