Christina Algeciras, MS, LMHC, NCC, RYT, and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, came to depth psychotherapy by way of a trajectory that she might herself recognize as a classic descent — each stage carrying her further inward rather than simply elsewhere. A career in corporate America ended in burnout; that threshold opened into yoga, and a sustained practice she had carried since late adolescence became a vocation. Teaching yoga clarified something essential: she could see what people were bringing into the room, but the container could not hold it at the depth they needed. That recognition sent her into formal psychotherapeutic training with a strong mind-body orientation, and from there into the territory of depth psychology — Jungian and Freudian — where she found, at last, a way of thinking that matched her longstanding interest in the inner world, spirituality, creativity, and the historical life of the psyche.

In session, the synthesis she has built — BodyDreaming, developed by Marian Dunlea, alongside Jungian symbolic work and Freudian depth — is not a fixed protocol but a responsive one. When there is activated energy or overwhelming emotion, she will often move toward somatic work first, using BodyDreaming to settle the nervous system and build what she calls the capacity for tolerance. The body, in this way, becomes the first site of meaning before it becomes symbol; the somatic work builds the container, and then the depth work can move through it. The Jungian and Freudian lenses then help illuminate the unconscious and automatic patterns, the imaginal and the historical, so that a person can begin to see those patterns clearly enough to choose differently. She does not describe this as arrival — reaching bedrock is not quite the point. Getting closer looks like increasing degrees of freedom and spaciousness in how one engages with one's own life.

The people who tend to find Christina are often high performers — those accustomed to managing their inner lives with the same discipline they bring to everything else, and who arrive carrying anxiety, unprocessed trauma, or grief that has not yet had a place to land. Early sessions are both practical and relational: she may introduce nervous system tools where they are needed, while also gathering the threads of family of origin, life history, and the slow building of trust between two people. For those who have not done this kind of work before, she is candid about its nature — it is not a linear process, she says, but one of exploration undertaken together. What she offers, alongside the clinical rigor, is a genuine commitment to remain present with whatever comes up, however unexpected or difficult. That willingness, earned in part through her own passage through burnout and reinvention, is not incidental to her practice. It is close to its center.