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: sudden anger, the weight of numbness, or the sense that you keep ending up back in the same place. These moments are thresholds, times when therapy can help you find your footing and respond differently.
Depth therapy 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, and effort. The core struggle remains, often reappearing in a different form.
Depth-based work begins by focusing on what lies beneath symptoms and seeing 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 reappearing is not a mistake. It is the psyche signalling that the current path is no longer working.
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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, following the intelligence beneath:
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the underlying dynamics shaping your reactions and relationships
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the emotional intensity within conflict, overwhelm, or withdrawal
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the signals within anger, anxiety, sadness, shame, or longing
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the cycles that pull couples into conflict or distance, regardless of who is “right”
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the experiences that don’t make sense, but keep returning
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. C.G. Jung
Depth psychotherapy is an internal compass. It provides orientation when you are lost, marking the difference between being caught in a cycle and knowing where you are in it.
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The Space
Depth therapy creates a space strong enough to hold intensity. Here:
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emotion becomes clearer rather than overwhelming
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conflict is explored as communication, not just escalation
- the quieter, unspoken parts of your experience are given voice
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meaning emerges through the work itself
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Following What Emerges
When life shifts, it is a threshold. Not a return to what was, but a shift toward what life is asking of you.
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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.
Projection: Why Some People Get Under Your Skin
When someone gets under your skin, the reaction often feels justified. Depth psychology understands this intensity as projection—an emotional signal pointing inward rather than outward.
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.