Donna Cozort

Dr. Donna Cozort is a clinical psychologist, artist, and Jungian analyst based in Dallas, Texas. Her search for meaning in the healing arts led her to the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, where she lived and studied for six years, returning to the United States in 1998. She is a Diplomate of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich and a training analyst for both the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the Texas Seminar, where she served as Director of Training for four years.

Dr. Cozort is the professional sponsor of the Jung Society of North Texas and a member of the Dallas Institute, A.G.A.P., and I.A.A.P. She is also a working artist whose creative practice informs her analytical work.

Her clinical focus includes trauma, particularly as understood through a Jungian lens. She draws on the work of Don Kalshed and his concept of the 'Self Care System' — an inner guardian of the soul that protects trauma survivors through dissociation — to understand how traumatic experience opens the psyche to the unconscious. She has written extensively on this subject in her book, 'PTSD and the Archetype of Job,' which documents the journey of a traumatized combat nurse back to healing through archetypal and depth psychological work.