StephenManning
PhD MFT
San Francisco
415.305.8078
drmanning@gmx.com
MFT License #37350
PhD MFT
San Francisco
415.305.8078
drmanning@gmx.com
MFT License #37350
Overview Practicalities Jungian
Overview
I work with adults,
singly and as couples,
men and women,
of all colors and ages,
sexual orientations,
religious and political beliefs.
The kinds of issue people often bring:
I am curious about relationships not only with mother and father, but with siblings, and with peers, with friends and lovers and workmates. If you are in a couple, then the relationship with your partner is central. And, of course, your relationship with yourself is basic to all of these others.
I focus on the here-and-now more than on the past. Not because the past is unimportant. But because the past cannot be changed. All that can really be changed about the past is our attitude to it. That is often a big part of therapy.
I am also interested in how we unknowingly contribute to the problems that confront us. Suffering is an inescapable part of life and sometimes quite necessary. But sometimes we make ourselves suffer...for reasons we are unaware of.
Although I do listen attentively, I am not a "blank wall" kind of therapist who never responds or says anything but "Hmm. I see". Nor am I an "earth mother" who fills the room with gales of emotion. I have to learn to live through my own nature, just as I believe my patients must. In the end, therapy is far less about theory than it is about the changes that can happen when people become allies in the service of the soul.
Practicalities
My office is located on the corner
of Market and Sanchez in San Francisco.
Parking can be a challenge; public transportation
is easy.
I have openings for new patients
on Wednesday during the day
and on Thursday during day and evening.
I do not take insurance but will happily
provide documentation for your program.
My regular fee is $125 per hour and I
typically meet with patients weekly.
If you have any questions, please feel
free to contact me:
drmanning@gmx.com
415.305.8078
Jungian Psychotherapy
Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung (1875-1961), one of the pioneers of depth psychology, developed a form of psychotherapy whose guiding goal is to foster individuation.
Individuation means becoming who you uniquely are. Jungian psychotherapy aims at relating our conscious selves with our unconscious selves so that we can live a more complete life as the individuals that we are truly meant to be.
I quote Jung on the opening page of my site:"We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." Much of our pain lies in parts of ourselves we can't see. The dialogue of psychotherapy allows these regions of our souls to come into the light so that we can make choices about what kind of life is true to who we are meant to be.
Jungian psychology sees our symptoms --the painful and disturbing issues in our lives-- as gateways to this process of individuation. Jungian psychology welcomes images, dreams and fantasies as harbingers of growth, and honors the sacred in all its forms.
It brings our many complex selves into conversation with one another in the confidential person-to-person exchange of psychotherapy. Along with relief from pain, it aims toward enlarged consciousness and a sense of aliveness.
Overview
I work with adults,
singly and as couples,
men and women,
of all colors and ages,
sexual orientations,
religious and political beliefs.
The kinds of issue people often bring:
- Searching for a partner
- Dealing with a break-up
- Conflict and dissatisfaction in a relationship
- Coping with job or coworkers
- Adjusting to a new city, job, responsibility
- Feeling like an outsider
- Feeling sad and empty
- Being edgy and stressed
- Feeling "stuck", without direction or energy
- Uneasiness with some aspect of sexuality
- Handling alcohol, drugs and/or food
- Grieving a death or other loss
- Living with illness
- Bearing the burden of unfulfilled goals
- Wondering what to do with my life
- Strange or powerful dreams
I am curious about relationships not only with mother and father, but with siblings, and with peers, with friends and lovers and workmates. If you are in a couple, then the relationship with your partner is central. And, of course, your relationship with yourself is basic to all of these others.
I focus on the here-and-now more than on the past. Not because the past is unimportant. But because the past cannot be changed. All that can really be changed about the past is our attitude to it. That is often a big part of therapy.
I am also interested in how we unknowingly contribute to the problems that confront us. Suffering is an inescapable part of life and sometimes quite necessary. But sometimes we make ourselves suffer...for reasons we are unaware of.
Although I do listen attentively, I am not a "blank wall" kind of therapist who never responds or says anything but "Hmm. I see". Nor am I an "earth mother" who fills the room with gales of emotion. I have to learn to live through my own nature, just as I believe my patients must. In the end, therapy is far less about theory than it is about the changes that can happen when people become allies in the service of the soul.
Practicalities
My office is located on the corner
of Market and Sanchez in San Francisco.
Parking can be a challenge; public transportation
is easy.
I have openings for new patients
on Wednesday during the day
and on Thursday during day and evening.
I do not take insurance but will happily
provide documentation for your program.
My regular fee is $125 per hour and I
typically meet with patients weekly.
If you have any questions, please feel
free to contact me:
drmanning@gmx.com
415.305.8078
Jungian Psychotherapy
Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung (1875-1961), one of the pioneers of depth psychology, developed a form of psychotherapy whose guiding goal is to foster individuation.
Individuation means becoming who you uniquely are. Jungian psychotherapy aims at relating our conscious selves with our unconscious selves so that we can live a more complete life as the individuals that we are truly meant to be.
I quote Jung on the opening page of my site:"We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." Much of our pain lies in parts of ourselves we can't see. The dialogue of psychotherapy allows these regions of our souls to come into the light so that we can make choices about what kind of life is true to who we are meant to be.
Jungian psychology sees our symptoms --the painful and disturbing issues in our lives-- as gateways to this process of individuation. Jungian psychology welcomes images, dreams and fantasies as harbingers of growth, and honors the sacred in all its forms.
It brings our many complex selves into conversation with one another in the confidential person-to-person exchange of psychotherapy. Along with relief from pain, it aims toward enlarged consciousness and a sense of aliveness.