Barbara Holifield is a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco who has spent decades integrating the bodily-felt dimension of experience into Jungian analysis and depth psychotherapeutic process. She is a member of IAAP, IARPP, and USABP, and teaches authentic movement internationally. Her book Being with the Body in Depth Psychology explores the intersection of somatic and Jungian approaches to trauma and transformation.

Specialties

Depth orientation

Holifield is a rare practitioner who holds full credentials as both a Jungian training analyst and a Somatic Experiencing practitioner, synthesizing decades of somatic psychology into a depth psychoanalytic framework that honors the body as a primary vehicle for individuation and trauma healing.

SEP’s approach Preparing for a first session with SEP