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How Depth Practices Have Moved Me: An Interview with Depth Psychotherapist Charlene Jones

Posted by Bonnie Bright on February 5, 2013 at 5:30pm

I'd like to share a brand new written interview with Charlene Jones, Alliance member and psychotherapist, who offers a private practice in Ontario, Canada. Charlene is one of over a hundred Alliance members listed as a depth oriented practitioner on DepthPsychologyList.com, available to the general public to search by location or type of services for free...

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Charlene Jones is a depth oriented psychotherapist specializing in addictions release, depression, crisis intervention, and marriage counseling. She is also a Meditation (Tibetan and Western) Astrologer who also offers Tarot, body work, and dreamwork. She has been in private practice for fifteen years, drawing on the energy and inspiration she received from her Teachers, including a lifetime of dreams and the tutelage of Roz Clements and Marion Woodman. Charlene is based in Ontario, Canada.


DepthList: How did you discover depth psychology?

Charlene: I discovered the work of Carl Jung three decades ago, when as a teenager I read his Treatise on the Hero. I was struck by his admission that he did not know if this path worked for women and at that moment, felt a trust for him.


DepthList: Can you share a story about how depth psychological practices have aided a client or someone you know?

Charlene: A young woman ended up at my doorstep, cross-addicted and hurt.

She worked with me for a year during which we addressed enough of her foundational needs she went on to University. A blazingly intelligent young woman, she is now about to graduate as an MD!


DepthList: How would you describe your particular area of focus?

Charlene: Body as basis, body as intelligence deeply informs my practice. I am struck often by...

 (Read the entire interview here on Depth Psychology List)

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ABOUT THE HOSTS/PRESENTERS
BONNIE BRIGHT, Ph.D.,(Founder of Depth Psychology Alliance), is a Transpersonal Soul-Centered Coach certified via Alef Trust/Middlesex University, and a certified Archetypal Pattern Analyst®, and has trained extensively in Holotropic Breathwork™ and the Enneagram. She has trained with African elder, Malidoma Some'; with Transpersonal Pioneer Stan Grof; and with Jungian analyst, Jerome Bernstein, among others.Her dissertation focused on a symbolic look at Colony Collapse Disorder and what the mass vanishing of honeybees means to us both personally and as a collective. Bonnie’s path to soul began with a spontaneous mystical experience in 2006, and she continues her quest for awakening each day with a sense of joy, freedom, and gratitude at the magic afoot in the world.

JAMES R. NEWELL, Ph.D., MTS, (Director of Depth Psychology Alliance) earned his Ph.D. in History and Critical Theories of Religion from Vanderbilt University (2007), and holds a master's degree in pastoral counseling and theology from the Vanderbilt University Divinity School (2001). James is also the director of the Depth Psychology Academy, offering college-level courses in Jungian and depth psychology. James has spent much of his working life as a professional musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist with interests in jazz, blues, folk, world, and devotional music. Since his youth, James has worked with a variety of blues greats including John Lee Hooker, James Cotton, Jr. Wells, Hubert Sumlin, Big Joe Turner, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and others.