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Teresa Arendell, PhD, IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst who trained at the C. G. Jung Institute –Boston. She has offered courses and lectures and served on committees at the Maine Jung Center, the C.G. Jung Institute, Boston, and other Jungian associations. She was a college professor in sociology forover three decades and held multiple postdoctoral fellowships. She’s working on a book exploring Jungian thought and practice in relation to climate devastation.

Chris Beach, J.D., IAAP, is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in Portland, Maine. He works extensively with psychological type as a counselor and teacher. Earlier, he worked as a secondary school headmaster in Kenya and as an assistant attorney general in Maine.

Stephanie Buck, PhD, IAAP, is a Jungian analyst who lives in New York State where she maintains a teletherapy private practice. She is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. She is Past-President of the C G Jung Institute of Chicago (2020-2022), past Analyst-Director of the Jungian Psychotherapy Program/Jungian Studies Program (2018-2020) and has taught in the Analyst Training Program of the Chicago Institute. She currently teaches in the Analyst Training Program of the C.G. Jung Institute of New England of which Institute she is also a member and holds society membership in the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts. Her interests include Jung’s early writing with its focus on the irrational dimension of reality which led to his mature work on synchronicity and his creation of The Red Book, Jung’s most marvelous document on the individuation journey and how it is enabled. Dream work and working with the active imagination through creative means are important aspects of the therapy-analytic process. For more information, please visit Stephanie’s website at stephaniebuck.com.

Rick Bouchard, LCSW, IAAP, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Southern Maine. He is a Jungian analyst having graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute of New England (then the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston). He is currently in a doctoral program in Modern Psychoanalysis at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, currently ABD and working on his dissertation on the Indian caste system and Untouchables (Dalits) who have emigrated to the United States.

Michael Conforti, Ph.D., IAAP, is a Jungian analyst and the Founder and Director of the Assisi Institute. He is a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute of New England, the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, and for many years served as a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral and Masters Programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England. A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, Dr. Conforti is actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences. He has presented his work to a wide range of national and international audiences, including the C.G. Jung Institute – Zurich and Jungian organizations in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Italy, Russia, South Africa, the Ukraine and Venezuela.

He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) and Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature, and Psyche (2002). His articles have appeared in Psychological Perspectives, The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Roundtable Press, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, and Spring Journal. His books have been translated into Italian, Russian, and a soon to be released Spanish edition of his work.

Pamela Donleavy, J.D., IAAP, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Arlington, MA. She is a former state and federal prosecutor in Philadelphia, is the past President of the C.G. Jung Institute – Boston, and was on the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Pamela is an author of several articles, and a book titled Themis: Ancient Myth, Modern Healing, published by Routledge.

Jill Fischer, PsyA, APRN, IAAP, is a Jungian Analyst and board-certified advanced nurse practitioner with worldwide experience working with the dreams of individuals and groups both in-person and on the Internet. She is a training, supervising analyst and past president of the CG Jung Institute of New England and is co-chairman of the Ethics Committee for the IAAP. Jill cowrote the section on Embodied Imagination in Barrett, Diedre and McNamara, Patrick, editors. Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams [2 volumes]: The Evolution, Function, Nature, and Mysteries of Slumber, Greenwood, 2012.

Annette Hanson, LCMHC, IAAP, is a senior Jungian Analyst, a faculty member and past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of New England. She is also a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in both NH and MA. Annette has taught analytic training seminars on the Jungian clinical process and fundamental Jungian theory as well as several public lectures on psychoanalytic theory, attachment theory and Jungian theory. Annette is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Analytic Psychology. She lives and has a private practice in Newmarket, NH.

Brian Hobbs, M.Ed., CGS, IAAP, is a graduate of the CG Jung Institute of New England and a member of the faculty at the Institute. He maintains an analytic practice in Princeton, MA.

Francine Lorimer, Ph.D., PsyD., IAAP, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Arlington, MA. She did her analytic training in Zurich and Boston. Prior to training as a Jungian analyst, she was an anthropologist, with a focus in cultural and psychological anthropology. She also trained as a clinical psychologist at William James College and has done practicums and internships in community mental health, inpatient hospital, child-focused, cross-cultural-focused, and psychological testing centers. She practices Jungian analysis and talk therapy, with a focus on dreams, self and individuation, transference, creativity, and healing from narcissistic wounding.

Patricia Vesey-McGrew, LP, IAAP, is a supervising and training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of New England, where she is a past president and currently on the Institute Board. Additionally, she is former Deputy Editor (US) on The Journal of Analystical Psychology and is currently a member of the editorial committee. She has a private practice in Rockport, MA.

David Oswald, M.S., IAAP is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in the Boston area. He is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich and a lecturer at the C.G Jung Institute of New England. He is also a psychodrama group leader and a translator of the Duino Elegies by the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

Zuzana Plesa, Ed.D., IAAP is a Jungian analyst who trained in and received her diploma in Kusnacht- Zurich, Switzerland. While in Switzerland, she trained closely under Dr Katrin Asper and Dr. Uhrs Mehlin.

She saw clients while working in Germany and England mostly who were in the military. She also worked with American civilians who were working overseas. She has worked with active-duty military and their families in Iceland, Guam, Korea, Alaska, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia and Florida. Presently she works with Military One Source seeing active-duty military and their families via Zoom. The clients are in Florida and overseas. She presented a lecture on rituals via Zoom through the Maine Jung Center. She is also a member of Friends of Jung – South which is a group out of Birmingham, Alabama. She published a book entitled Belongings. The book and video of her doll collection are on the website of The Toy Museum of New York. Zuzana lives and works in Niceville, Florida which is surrounded by military bases.

Paul Sanderson, D.Min., Ph.D. is a Licensed Psychologist and a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Massachusetts; a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors; a Certified Jungian Psychoanalyst; and is an Ordained Minister in the United Church of Christ. He taught psychology at Assumption College for twenty-five years. In addition to his private practice (in person and on-line) in Foxborough, Massachusetts, he serves as Pastor of the First Community Church of Southborough. He is married with three children, six grandchildren, and is a big fan of the New York Yankees.

Jason Smith, MA., IAAP, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. He is a past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston (now of New England) and serves as a training analyst and faculty member for the New England Institute. Jason is the author of Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life published by Chiron Publications in October 2020.

Penelope Tarasuk, PhD, IAAP, the first Jungian Analyst to have been trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston – now New England (1978-88), was born in Washington D.C., has lived in Panama, Seoul, South Korea, Santa Fe, NM and primarily in MA. An artist since childhood, she studied art and psychology, including advanced study Family Systems Therapy, Tibetan Buddhist studies, and completed a Ph.D. in 2002. She has worked on the front lines of human services and community mental health. Penelope brings over 50 years of experience in psychology to individuals, families, groups, and communities through her work: in-patient treatment, residential facilities, schools, community mental health centers and private work. Her workshops and lectures in the United States and abroad focus upon dreaming, active imagination, nature, art, and breathwork. Deepest interests: accessing the heart of creativit through dreams, images and symbols, art & writing, and being in nature. She is devoted to supporting the development of spiritual life.

A former member of the Training Board of the C.G. Jung Institute – Boston, Penelope is currently a senior training analyst, supervisor, and faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of New England. Her book, Polishing the Bones, (London, Muswell Hill Press, 2017, now Aeon Press) is about a woman artist’s analysis, individuation and dying process through dreams, nature, and loving relationships.

In 2019 Penelope became certified after a ten-year study with Dr. Stan Grof in Holotropic Breathwork. She also certified with the California Institute of Integral Studies: Certification in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy and Research.