Sondra Geller

Sondra Geller is a senior Jungian Analyst, a Registered Board-Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC), and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who has combined these disciplines in her private practice for many years. She recently relocated her practice from Chevy Chase, Maryland to Washington, DC, where she sees individuals and groups. Her approach is fundamentally relational, grounded in the belief that the most important aspect of therapy and analysis is the relationship between therapist and client.

Geller's work invites clients to engage through multiple modalities — dialogue, art-making, dreams, dance movement, and music — while she attends closely to what unfolds in the silent space between them. This focus on the silent space was the subject of her diploma thesis: 'Making Art in the Presence of the Analyst: What Happens in the Silent Space.' Her clinical work addresses issues including self-esteem, depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, creative blocks, loss, and grief, and her client base spans from young adults in their twenties through elderhood and end-of-life care.

In addition to individual work, Geller facilitates Jungian Art Therapy groups, some of which have continued for many years and have given rise to poems, plays, memoirs, sculptures, sandtrays, and paintings. She also gives workshops and teaches small experiential classes for the Washington Jung Society and the Philadelphia Association for Jungian Analysis (PAJA), among other venues. She is a former faculty member of George Washington University's expressive therapies program and is one of the most experienced practitioners in the United States merging board-certified art therapy with certified Jungian analysis.