Judith Pickering

Judith Pickering is a Psychoanalytic Couple Therapist, Jungian Analyst and Psychotherapist based in Sydney, NSW, integrating over 30 years of Buddhist study with analytical psychology. She holds multiple degrees spanning Humanities, Asian Studies, Music, and Psychology, as well as a PhD and Diploma in Analytical Psychology. Her work on love and relationships is internationally recognized.

Pickering is the author of 'The Search for Meaning in Psychotherapy: Spiritual Practice, the Apophatic Way and Bion' (Routledge, 2019), which won the 2020 American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) book award. The book is a profound inquiry into the contemplative, mystical and apophatic dimensions of psychoanalysis, exploring qualities such as presence, awareness, attention, mindfulness, calm abiding, reverie, patience, compassion, insight and wisdom, and how they may be enhanced by meditative and spiritual practice.

Her work draws on the confluence between psychotherapy, spirituality, mysticism, meditation and contemplation, reflecting on key Christian mystics including Dionysius, Meister Eckhart and St John of the Cross, Buddhist teachings on meditation, Śūnyatā and Dzogchen, and Levinas' ethics of alterity. She has also presented workshops and one-day events on the sense of spirit in psychotherapy, including a workshop at the Garvan Institute in Darlinghurst, Sydney.