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Pastoral Counseling

Robin van Löben Sels

PhD · Licensed Psychoanalyst

Robin van Löben Sels is a Jungian psychoanalyst, licensed psychoanalyst, scholar, and author who retired from private practice in July 2026 after more than forty years of clinical work. She holds a PhD from Union Theological Seminary with MDiv equivalency, and a Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the C.G. Jung Institute of New York with additional training in Zurich. She is a member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and the C.G. Jung Society of New England. She is the author of A Dream in the World: Poetics of Soul in Two Women, Modern and Medieval and Shamanic Dimensions of Psychotherapy; her teaching, supervision, and writing remain ongoing or possible.

Specialties

Depth orientation

Brings Union Theological Seminary's tradition of psychiatry and religion together with Jungian psychoanalysis, exploring shamanic and sacred dimensions of psychotherapy and the religious function of the psyche.

Sels’s approach Preparing for a first session with Sels
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