Cura Per Profundum — Healing Through Depth
Depth psychotherapy and counselling for individuals and couples
In person in Nanaimo and by video across British Columbia
John Taylor, MA, RCC · 20+ years
When The Ground Shifts
A relationship becomes tense or distant.
Conflict keeps reappearing.
Anger, anxiety, numbness, or overwhelm dominate your day.
We encounter depth through disturbance: the sudden flare of anger, the weight of numbness, or the sense that you keep ending up back in the same place. These moments are not failures. They are pivot points, times when therapy can help you find your footing.
This work is for people who are stuck in repeating patterns and want to understand why.
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Life Turns Inward
People arrive having tried therapy, medication, insight, effort. Yet something essential remains unchanged. What brings them here is often rooted in more than external circumstances alone.
Depth-based work begins by attuning to what lies beneath symptoms and listening for where recurring themes, emotions, or impasses are pointing.
Symptoms can show up as:
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repeated conflict or emotional shutdown
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anxiety, anger, or sadness that feels out of proportion or hard to explain
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feeling stuck despite insight or effort
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loss of direction, desire, or meaning
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patterns that return even when you are trying to change
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a sense that life cannot go on in the same way
What keeps returning is not a mistake. It is the psyche asking to be met differently.
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What Depth Therapy Offers
Depth therapy is an active engagement with the patterns and forces shaping your life. We don’t just talk about what’s happening. We work with it directly, attuning to the intelligence beneath the disturbance:
- the underlying dynamics shaping your reactions and relationships
- emotional intensity beneath conflict, overwhelm, or withdrawal
- what anger, anxiety, sadness, shame, or longing are carrying
- for couples, this means looking beyond who is “right” and noticing the cycle that pulls you into conflict or distance
- experiences that don’t make sense, but insist on being noticed
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. C.G. Jung
Depth psychotherapy isn’t about applying a standardized set of techniques to your life. It is a meeting with an internal compass, one that helps you stay oriented when the ground shifts and find movement where things feel stuck.
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The Space
Depth therapy requires a space strong enough to hold intensity. Here:
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emotion clarifies rather than overwhelms
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conflict is explored as communication, not just escalation
- the quieter, unspoken aspects of your experience are finally given room to speak
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meaning takes shape without being forced
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Following What Emerges
When life shifts, it is a threshold moment. Not a return to what was, but a movement toward what is deeper and more true.
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Individual Counselling
Understanding what keeps reappearing in your life, and what it’s asking for.
Couples Counselling
Moving beyond the repetitive cycle of conflict, distance, and misunderstanding.
Encountering the Shadow: What the Psyche Refuses to Abandon
Shadow work is not moral cleanup. Rather than purging “toxic” traits, we encounter the shadow as unlived life—vitality and intelligence that refuses to disappear. In depth therapy, reactivity and projection become information, and what begins as symptom can transform into a deeper movement of the soul.
I Know This Place: Understanding the Psychological Complex
We don’t recognize psychological complexes through insight, but through repetition. They appear when familiar reactions take over — when something older steps forward and turns the present moment into an echo of an unlived past.
Separating Yourself From Depression
When depression takes over, it can feel complete and unquestionable, collapsing the difference between what you feel and who you are. Psychological work begins by restoring distance — not to erase the feeling, but to remain a person in the presence of it.