How I See You When I Work With You As A Jungian Analyst
As I let my inner eye pass over the faces of you, my clients, who come to my office every week, I am aware of the search in each person’s heart for relief from relational pain, hope for happiness, the search for insight into your behaviour, feelings, thoughts, and experiences. I am aware of the painstaking – sometimes painful and difficult and sometimes joyful – steps towards finding deeper meaning in your lives, the steps towards becoming conscious of your own unique mix of strengths and vulnerabilities, the steps towards appreciating your own personal path, and of shifting your long-held potential for change so that it finally becomes the longed-for path of transformation. All of this takes place in our weekly meetings and is then taken out into the world of your everyday lives – step by step.
These steps cannot be found in books and cannot be taken by reading books. If this were the case, all suffering, pain, growth and change would be readily available for all people and this world we live in would be a place of happiness, contentment and empowered souls. Instead, the knowledge we need is held within us. You are the books that need to be read and understood. Within you are the steps that need to be taken. They’re not in any book “out there.”
This then is what analysis is about. We meet once a week and together, we discover what your own inner world has to say about your unique path to wholeness – to happiness, success, empowerment and love. In our weekly meetings, the steps you need to take become evident.
If this journey is to be successful, it must be entered into fully – not with only half a heart and not as something we somehow “fit” into our busy days. For this reason, it is important to devote yourself to the work that is for yourself by attending all of your sessions unless there is a really good reason for being unable to attend. This is not a course in typing or a degree in economics. Those courses teach you a profession. Jungian Analysis is about the journey of your life. It encompasses, extends beyond and is far larger than your profession. Your life and who you are and who you are not breathes through every relationship, activity, job and position.
About Leslie
Leslie Zimmermann is a Jungian Analyst trained in the philosophy and psychology of C.G. Jung in Zurich and is based in Johannesburg. She offers a range of services, which she integrates, to meet the needs and aspirations of people. In a word, her work is in the service of wholeness. Wholeness includes both our vulnerabilities and our strengths, becoming conscious of our own unique mix of these, honoring our own unique way of functioning and with this knowledge and confidence, contributing as only we each can in our own way, to this evolving world we find ourselves to be a part of.
Besides having a Diplomate qualification in Analytical psychology, which qualifies me to write about the theory and practice of dream interpretation, I also have an Honours degree in Applied Psychology and a Masters degree in Research psychology, which qualify me to write about theories of human development, personality, abnormal psychology, social psychology, sociology and ethics. Also, theories and knowledge pertaining to sleep and dreams from a perspective of neuropsychological and biological systems.
Leslie specializes in Analytical Psychology, Voice Dialogue, Life Coaching solutions for business executives. Consulting and coaching for family owned and home-based business
For an appointment Leslie Zimmermann can be contacted on:
Email: leslie.zimmermann@gmail.com
Mobile: +27 (0)83 384 9812
Member: SAPC (South African Psychoanalytic Confederation); AGAP (Association of Graduate Analytical Psychologists, Switzerland); SAAJA (Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts); IAAP (International Association for Analytical Psychology)