For the Woman whose awakening can’t be held by
ORDINARY THERAPY
One-on-one analysis through dream, image, and the individualized language the soul already speaks. For the woman whose life path of individuation and spiritual growth has crossed the line where conventional therapy stops being enough.
When ordinary therapy isn’t enough
You're not in crisis. You've done the foundational work; the books, the workshops, the good-enough therapists who helped you cope and function. But something underneath is asking for more, and you don't have a container for it.
Maybe an image keeps appearing in your dreams and won't release you. Maybe you've felt called to make art and can't say why. Maybe a threshold is forming under your feet. It could be a death of one self and out of the chaos, the emergence of another. You need someone who recognizes what they're looking at.
Maybe you've already been to dark places. Maybe you've done shadow work, or magic, or you've found yourself somewhere no normal therapist could sit with you without flinching. Maybe what's happening to you is being called a problem when you suspect it's actually an opening.
Conventional therapy is calibrated for quick symptom relief. Spiritual coaching can lack the psychological rigor to meet what's actually moving in you. You've been caught in the gap between them.
That gap is exactly the liminal space where I work.
About Maggi Colwell
I'm a clinically trained, board-certified art therapist and an analyst-in-training at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich. This means I work at the intersection of two lineages: the clinical tradition of meeting the unconscious with care, and the depth-analytic tradition Jung developed for engaging the soul through image, symbol, and dream. My work breaks categories and is not traditional, standard clinical treatment. We aren’t working with pathology or mental illness, per say.
Marie-Louise von Franz said the work of the Jungian analyst is that of a psychopomp, a modern-day shaman. I take that lineage seriously.
I try to work the way Jung worked. With what's actually moving in your psyche right now, such as the dreams you're bringing, the images that won't release you, the figures showing up in active imagination. We use art-making not as a therapy technique but as the medium through which symbolic material becomes legible, so that we can bring it into consciousness and integrate it.
I am unafraid of the material. Tarot, dream symbolism, active imagination, the figures you've been encountering, the rituals you've been part of, what's actually moving in your life, bring it. I am happy to work with you on integration of psychedelic experiences. THere’s a lot of archetypal material there and our modern world has lost its ritual containers for it. I will not pathologize what is, in fact, an awakening, a rebalancing, or a level-up.
This work is welcoming whether you locate yourself within Christianity, paganism, atheism, or no tradition at all. I am not asking you to adopt a worldview. I am holding space for the worldview that is already trying to articulate itself through you.
We work one-on-one in 55-minute sessions, weekly or biweekly, over several months at minimum. This is not a quick consult or a one-off reading. This is the initiatory pace, and this is the pace at which actual integration happens.
how we work together
In sessions we work with:
✦ The dreams you bring. Even the weird ones or the ones that are just a fragment, an image, a thought, a stanza of music.
✦ Active imagination in real time. I’ll teach and guide you with this. It’s like guided meditation, journeying, and invocation all at the same time.
✦ Art-making for personal inquiry. It is not "art therapy" in the workbook sense, but as a way of letting symbolic material show its shape.
✦ Somatic breath-work and meditation techniques.
✦ Whatever literal life material is asking to be metabolized.
Investment:
✦ $250
themes that often emerge in this work
The work is led by what's alive in you. But certain themes recur across people in real depth:
✦ Rites of passage and initiation — the threshold experiences our culture has largely lost the language for
✦ Chronos and Kairos — the difference between clock time and the time the soul keeps
✦ The difference between habit and ritual — what a daily action is for, and how to consecrate it
✦ Sacrifice — what must be given for what wants to be born
✦ Boundaries in the body and psyche — how the personal container forms and where it has been violated
✦ Mandala and image across cultures — how the psyche shows you its shape, in your dreams and across centuries of human symbolic life. This might also be your cultural, ethnic, national, religious, or family stories and mythology.
Each is a gateway. Most clients don't come to me looking for them by name. They arrive at the threshold itself, wondering what’s next and what to do, a not knowing of sorts and we name what's happening together. You don’t have to know where you are going, have set goals, or a linear pathway to get there. Individuation work in Jungian analysis is a pathway of unfolding, becoming, a natural development process that cooks in its own time.
Is this work right for you?
This work is right for you if:
✦ You're already doing inner work and have been for some time
✦ You can hold complexity, ambiguity, and discomfort. You already know this is par for the course with spiritual journeys.
✦ You're willing to commit to the process rather than shop for breakthroughs
✦ You can have the time for the work and can invest in yourself financially.
✦ You suspect what's happening to you is an awakening, not a disorder, and you need someone who can hold it that way. I get it. I’m already there.
This work is probably not for you if:
✦ You're looking for energy work, channeling, or services in a specific occult tradition
✦ You want immediate symptom relief without depth engagement
✦ You're spiritually curious but not yet committed to a sustained inner practice
✦ You want a "normal" therapist, clinical work, insurance driven work, etc.
(If you're not sure which side of this line you're on, that's exactly what the discovery conversation is for.)
Step Across the Threshold
If something in you recognized itself reading this, I'd like to talk.