About John

Cura per Profundum — Healing Through Depth

Most people come to therapy when something in their life stops fitting the way it once did—when an old way of being reaches its limit. My work is to meet people at these thresholds with presence, patience, and an attunement shaped by many years of sitting with others in their transformations.

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My Path into Depth Work

I have been working in psychotherapy for over twenty years, with a depth-oriented and relational focus throughout my practice.
My own path has carried me across cultures, through long arcs of clinical practice, and through the steady work of my own individuation—aligning the outer life with the deeper Self.

These experiences shape how I listen, how I sit with complexity, and how I help people follow the movements arising within them.

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Clinical Grounding and Experience

My work is grounded not only in depth psychology, but in extensive clinical training and experience across a range of settings.

I hold a Master’s degree in counselling and psychotherapy, with professional training and registration in both Canada and the United States. My clinical background includes:

• Advanced couples training, including Gottman-informed approaches

• Marriage and family therapy training in California

• Experience facilitating programs addressing relationship violence and high-conflict dynamics

• Over a decade of work within public and community mental health systems, working with individuals, couples, and families.

• Clinical work within hospital and post-graduate training settings, including UBC and Peace Arch Hospital

• Graduate-level teaching and supervision

• Published writing on psychological and relational themes

This breadth of experience allows me to work with intensity, complexity, and emotional heat while maintaining steadiness, ethical clarity, and care for the nervous system of each person in the room.

Depth work requires imagination — but it also requires structure.
My role is to hold both.

Clients often come with complex histories and strong emotions; my role is to help ensure this work unfolds with care, safety, and steadiness.

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How I Work

I offer a space where truth can emerge in its own time, where the deeper patterns of a life can be seen more clearly, and where the quieter parts of the psyche have room to speak.

Depth therapy is not a matter of correcting what is wrong, but of listening for what is trying to emerge, and helping ego find enough steadiness for the deeper Self to speak.

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Working with Couples

I work with couples not only to repair disconnection, but to explore the meaning beneath it—the dynamics, patterns, and unspoken truths that shape how two people find or lose one another.

Sometimes the work restores the bond.
Sometimes it reveals a different direction.
My role is to help each person see clearly what is moving in them—beyond the protective strategies and surface reactions ego has learned to use.

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Working with Individuals

I work with individuals who sense that their story is shifting, that old identities no longer fit, or that new energies—creative, emotional, or relational—are trying to take form.

These are often threshold moments.
They require patience, curiosity, and a willingness to stay with what is unfinished, without collapsing into old reactions or trying to force things into premature clarity.

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My Ongoing Journey

My own journey continues to shape my work.
The movement across cultures, decades of clinical practice, and the inner work of my own individuation have taught me how to sit with uncertainty, tension, and transformation.

This is the stance I bring to the room: grounded, attuned, and committed to following the deeper movements within each person I meet.

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The Space I Offer

I offer a steady space where what has been forming beneath the surface can come into view—
where the heat of emotion clarifies rather than overwhelms,
where meaning takes shape,
and where the quieter, long-unheard parts of the psyche can begin to speak again.

Without urgency, pressure, or the demand for clarity before it is ready.