Meet Alexis

PSYCHOTHERAPIST, M.S., LMHC, PHD(c)

Alexis is licensed psychotherapist in private practice online and in-person. She is currently a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology with an emphasis on depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Her style is both psychoanalytic-psychodynamic and clinically grounded, while focused on the importance of becoming embodied through soul work and meaning-making. She approaches psyche with a sense of complexity by acknowledging that each symptom, every image, is part of a greater emerging wholeness that yearns to animate from within. By bringing this inner and outer dance to consciousness that the client can feel safe building a relationship with their own unconscious from a place of love and integrity rather than fear, avoidance, and stagnation.

Alexis engages the universal language of mythopoetics and metaphor in sessions as both reveal a creative bridge to healing the imagination through relational driven, right-brain stimulation. This approach is critical to trauma informed therapy which is grounded in a bottom-up body centered model. Alexis is clinically trained in trauma treatment for the body and psyche. Her eclectic approach and balance of the opposites in her practice aligns with the tenets of liberation therapy, multicultural ethics, and conscious LGBTQA+ treatment methods.

RESEARCH AND SPECIALIZATION

She specializes in both the classical and post-Jungian analytical approaches, taking inspiration from Marion Woodman, Marie Louise Von Franz, James Hillman, and Wolfgang Giegerich. Her areas of doctoral research have centered around the trauma of the feminine as encountered in images of the repressed soul in dreams, the transformative nature of the imaginal, trauma and the inner self-care system, religious-cult trauma, the necessity of levity, and the chaotic psyche: conscious complexity and the emergence of archetypal sight. She is currently writing her dissertation on the archetypal nature of Hekate’s relationship to the trauma of the feminine.

She works with survivors of sexual trauma, those in major life transitions, as well as those working through creative blocks, persistent and major depression, mood disorders, emotional dysregulation, gender dysphoria, grief/loss, LGBTQA+, religious-cult trauma, and individuals seeking a more de-colonized and grounded spiritual approach.

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN PSYCHOLOGY: CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH

DOCTORAL CANDIDATE IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, IN DISSERTATION

BACHELOR OF ART AND SCIENCE IN NEW MEDIA AND CYBERNETICS

 What is the Inner Work Library?

It is the mission of the Inner Work Library to provide access to vetted source material from the Depth Psychological tradition. Alchemical Toil works as weaver to provide story and excerpt as a metaphorical bridge to creative growth and embodiment.

Inner Work Library started as a way to document the analytic process through the reading journey and the synchronicities which surround it. It is a purposeful project geared toward sharing authentic resources for “inner work” and “shadow work,” in strong contrast to the numerous avenues of misinformation present on the internet today. As a book blog and therapeutic service, Inner Work Library now aims to serve as a center for Jungian, alchemical, and psychoanalytic scholarly resources for both the average reader and advanced counseling student. All text has a credited source in this library.

In recent years there has been a flooding of inaccuracies on the internet; source lost, and quotes butchered. The process of becoming a Jungian therapist or analyst is long and arduous, multilayered and winding. Pop psychology figures, coaches, and capitalistic ventures who are not trained or educated in analysis often misconstrue the core principles of Jung’s work and the revisionaries. The work of contemporary depth psychologists and Post-Jungians attempts to maintain the authenticity of analytical work as it is continuously brought to consciousness; over and over again. This is not a work of traditionalism or the promotion of gender constructs, rather it is the active holding of the individuation process—the differentiation out of old ingrained and decaying social belief systems—both collectively and personally. This is the bringing of these wounded constructs to consciousness so that we may return home to ourselves and the world; a return to soul. We do not become conscious by lying in the mud of the past. We can only individuate by raising that which has been oppressed and repressed to consciousness.

Inner Work Library aims to serve as an honest resource center for those who find themselves on this journey, but don’t know where to start or how to sift through this wilderness of information.

The library is always open and encourages curiosity! The librarian enjoys pointing you toward books that can help you find the wisdom to heal yourself. It is with a deepening of the heart center and a burning fire of purpose, that Inner Work Library hopes to guide genuine pursuit of soul and dispel divisive myths.