I gradually became disillusioned with mainstream psychiatry as it appeared to me to paper over the cracks of people’s emotional distres by using medication rather than talking or creative therapies such as art, music or drama therapy. Following various life experiences outside the helping professions, I trained as a psychodynamic counsellor with an affiliate centre of WPF Counselling before training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy. I am a  registered  with   the  UKCP . My interest in Jung derives from his value of the place of imagination in the journey towards healing and wholeness as shown in his emphsis upon dreams as offering insights from the deep psyche. Jung also acknowledges the importance of the spiritual and religious dimension. These two aspects of Jung’s work inspire me.