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Maria Ellen Chiaia
Board Certified (ATR-BC)PhD, LMFT, CST-T, Jungian Analyst
Berkeley, CA, United States
About
Maria Ellen Chiaia, PhD, MFT, is a child and adult Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Berkeley and Marin County, California. She is an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and a Clinical Teaching Member of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy (ISST) and Sandplay Therapists of America (STA). Co-author of 'Sandplay in Three Voices: Images, Relationships, the Numinous.' She is a co-coordinator and trainer in the North Bay Jung Group at Interfaith Counseling Center. Published response in Journal of Analytical Psychology on art, dreams, and active imagination from a post-Jungian perspective. Lectures and teaches internationally on the relationship between Jungian theory, the living symbol, and sandplay.
Clinical Orientation
Specializes in the living symbol within sandplay therapy, understanding the sandtray as a temenos where the unconscious can manifest through three-dimensional image-making. Works with art, dreams, and active imagination from a post-Jungian perspective, exploring transference dynamics through the image. Views sandplay as a form of symbolic expression that engages the numinous dimension of psyche.
Details
Education & Training
- PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies
- Jungian Adult & Child Analyst, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco
- CST-T Teaching Member, ISST and STA
- Japan Association of Jungian Psychology
Certifications
- CST-T (ISST Teaching Member)
- Jungian Adult & Child Analyst
Best for
- Jungian sandplay therapy
- Child and adolescent analytical work
- The living symbol in therapy
- Working with the numinous
Publications
- Sandplay in Three Voices: Images, Relationships, the Numinous (co-author with Kay Bradway and Lucia Chambers)
- Re: Art, Dreams and Active Imagination (Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2006)
- Multiple book chapters and articles on Jungian sandplay