Symbolic Process Work

Symbolic Process Work offers a reflective space at the intersection of creativity and psychology — where artistic, professional, and personal questions can be explored through symbolic understanding.

I offer coaching and psychological consulting for individuals, groups, institutions, and brands — for artists, curators, writers, designers, performers, and other creative professionals seeking a Jungian perspective on their work and process.

My work accompanies clients in exploring the symbolic dimensions of the creative process — on both personal and collective levels.
Each process begins with the themes and questions that are alive for the client.
Through the process, we follow their symbolic threads and find the form of reflection that feels most resonant — whether brief or sustained.

I understand the work with symbols as a vital resource for awareness and inner development.
Drawing on the analytical psychology of C. G. Jung, I view the creative process as one of the psyche’s most direct expressions.
For Jung, symbols are not ego-creations but expressions of universal psychic patterns.
Engaging with such material means entering into dialogue with the unconscious patterns that shape how we see, feel, and imagine.
Through this process, we gain new perspectives and a deeper understanding of ourselves — both personally and within our creative and professional lives.

In practice, this dialogue may take many forms: reflecting on artworks or creative projects, working with dreams or active imagination, painting or drawing from the unconscious, or using contemplative techniques to deepen perception and awareness.
Each of these approaches can open a different entry point into the symbolic field and support the unfolding of insight and creative renewal.

In late capitalism, where value is measured through visibility, productivity, and currency, I see the necessity of cultivating forms of work grounded in reflection rather than acceleration.
To engage with symbols and inner processes is to reclaim work as an act of meaning — as a shared movement of transformation.
Such inquiry restores depth and orientation to creative and professional life, re-valuing the inner movement behind form, intention, and participation.

This work invites a slower, more conscious engagement with one’s creative and inner life — a practice of reflection that supports clarity, integration, and renewal.

I work in English and German, online and in person, and offer individual sessions, group formats, and workshops.

Below, you will find descriptions of how Symbolic Process Work can be applied within different fields and contexts.

Professionals in the Arts

When working with artists and creative professionals, I accompany them in exploring the symbolic and psychological dimensions of their body of work.
Together, we look at how images, themes, and forms arise — what they express, and how they transform over time.
By becoming conscious of the underlying psychic dynamics within one’s work, it becomes possible to engage with them more intentionally — allowing coherence to develop between inner and outer form, and opening the potential for psychological integration through artistic engagement.

This work addresses the core tensions many artists face: the pressure to constantly explain or produce, the isolation of the creative process, and the distance that can arise between personal vision and public reception.
A Jungian approach allows for a different rhythm — one that values reflection as much as creation and restores trust in the unconscious as co-creator.
Rather than forcing concept or product, meaning can unfold symbolically and organically — balancing the demands of the market with the deeper movement of the psyche.

In periods of artistic crisis, uncertainty, or conflict with institutional and market structures, this process offers orientation and renewal.
We explore the images, emotions, and questions that emerge when familiar forms lose vitality or meaning — tracing the movements through which new creative life begins to unfold.

Institutions & Curatorial Practice

When working with curators and directors of institutions, the focus lies on exploring the symbolic and psychological dimensions of both their curatorial work and the institutional field they inhabit.
Every curatorial practice forms its own symbolic body — shaped by recurring themes, affinities, and the artists one chooses to engage with.
Seen through a Jungian lens, these choices reveal an underlying, often unconscious logic — the psyche’s way of thinking through form, dialogue, and relation.

Each institution — whether museum, foundation, or exhibition space — likewise carries a distinct psychic atmosphere, marked by its architecture, geography, and founding gesture.
These elements, together with the histories and intentions that have gathered around them, continue to shape the institution’s present unconscious — influencing what can appear, be supported, or resisted within its walls.
Many sense that the institution itself has a psyche, yet rarely find a language to articulate or explore it.

This work invites reflection on these layered relationships — between curator, artist, and institutional body — as an evolving symbolic field.
Through such reflection, new meanings and correspondences can emerge between the visible structures of art and their underlying psychological landscapes.

For collectors, this perspective can open a deeper understanding of their collection as a living psychic constellation.
A collection, viewed in this way, becomes not only an accumulation of works but a symbolic narrative — one that reveals personal and collective archetypes and reflects the unfolding dialogue between self and world.

Fashion

When working with designers, creative directors, and fashion houses or brands, the focus lies on exploring the symbolic dimensions of form, style, and image.
Fashion can be understood as a living expression of the collective psyche — a field in which archetypes, desires, and cultural tensions take visible shape in the form of trends.

This work offers a space to look beneath the surface of aesthetics: to read fashion archetypally and to understand what a brand, image, or design expresses in collective terms.
It also cultivates the psychological distance needed to perceive how market forces and cultural projections interact with one’s authentic aesthetic imagination — and to maintain creative integrity within that tension.

From a Jungian perspective, every aesthetic language carries traces of the unconscious: patterns of attraction and resistance, projections of identity, and attempts to reconcile opposites such as visibility and concealment, instinct and refinement, innovation and tradition.
To reflect on these dynamics is to recognise how fashion both mirrors and shapes collective imagination — and how symbolic awareness can bring renewed depth and coherence to creative work

Symbolic process work can take many forms — individual sessions, group formats, or collaborations shaped around a specific question or field of practice.
If you feel drawn to this work and would like to explore what it could open within your own context, I invite you to reach out.
Please contact me to schedule an initial conversation.