Nora Swan-Foster
Board Certified (ATR-BC)MA, ATR-BC, LPC, NCPsyA, Diplomate Jungian Analyst
Boulder, CO, United States
About
Nora Swan-Foster, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, NCPsyA, is a Diplomat Jungian Analyst and board-certified art therapist based in Boulder, Colorado, with over 35 years of practice. She holds a rare dual credential as an IAAP Jungian analyst and board-certified art therapist, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology.
As a Jungian psychoanalyst, Nora is deeply interested in the unconscious — what is not speakable, knowable, or seen by the world around us. She works with the internal emotional divide and isolation that can lead to experiences of emotional darkness, including post-traumatic memories that may present as depression, grief and loss, or panic and anxiety. She integrates dreams, art, and writing along with Brainspotting and Focusing techniques into the psychotherapeutic process.
Nora has a particular expertise in using art therapy with pregnancy and childbearing-related issues, and has edited a book of chapters titled 'Art Therapy and Childbearing Issues.' She is also the author of 'Jungian Art Therapy' (Routledge), which informs her short-term consultations for artists and writers seeking to facilitate the creative process, explore blocks, and nourish renewal.
Nora offers services including Jungian analysis, Jungian art therapy, clinical consultations with a psychoanalytic focus, and creative renewal consultations and workshops. She currently operates on a hybrid model of in-office, telephone, and telehealth sessions from her office at 2919 Valmont Street, Suite 209, Boulder, CO 80301.
Clinical Orientation
Integrates art-making directly into Jungian analysis as a way to engage the unconscious through image. Her approach views spontaneous image creation as active imagination, drawing on archetypal symbolism, dream imagery, and the alchemical process of materials to access what is 'not speakable, knowable, or seen.'
Details
Education & Training
- IAAP Jungian Analyst (Diplomat)
- Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC)
- Brainspotting
- Focusing techniques
- NCPsyA (National Certified Psychoanalyst)
Certifications
- ATR-BC
- NCPsyA
Best for
- Jungian art therapy
- Dream analysis through image-making
- Depth-oriented creative process
- Anxiety and depression
Publications
- Jungian Art Therapy: Images, Dreams, and Analytical Psychology (Routledge, 2018)
- Art Therapy and Childbearing Issues: Birth, Death, and Rebirth (contributor)
- C. G. Jung's Influence on Art Therapy and the Making of the Third (Psychological Perspectives, 2020)