Lynn Alicia Franco

Lynn Alicia Franco, MSW, LCSW, is a bilingual and bicultural Jungian analyst with a private practice in Berkeley, California. She is a certified analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where she also provides clinical supervision and consultation. She teaches at both the Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco, bringing a depth, relational, and psychocultural perspective to her supervisory and educational work.

Franco's academic formation spans multiple disciplines and institutions. She earned a BA in International Relations with a Latin American focus from the University of California, Los Angeles (1966), an MA in Education and Latin American Studies from California State University, Los Angeles (1969), a California Standard Teaching Credential in History and Government from the University of San Francisco (1971), and an MSW with a State of California Pupil Personnel Credential from the University of California, Berkeley (1977). This diverse educational background informs her deep sensitivity to cultural, linguistic, and socio-political dimensions of psychological life.

Her clinical practice centers on Jungian analysis for individuals and depth psychotherapy for couples, with a particular capacity to work across cultural and linguistic boundaries in both Spanish and English. She also serves as a clinical and organizational consultant. Franco was among the organizers of the 2020 International Association for Analytical Psychology conference on Analysis and Activism, reflecting her commitment to the social and political dimensions of depth psychological work.