Archetypal Consulting
Choice is the greatest authority you have.
What This Is
Archetypal consulting is a deep, structured exploration of the patterns that shape your life — how you make decisions, where you give your power away, what drives you, and what holds you back.
Rooted in Jungian psychology and the work of Caroline Myss, this practice works with archetypes: the living patterns of the human psyche that reside in the subconscious — until you become aware of them. Once you do, they become very conscious tools for understanding yourself.
We each carry twelve primary archetypes. Four are universal: the Child, the Victim, the Prostitute, and the Saboteur. The remaining eight are personal — drawn from a vast storehouse of human patterns and unique to you. They might include the Healer, the Warrior, the Rebel, the Artist, the Mystic, the Teacher, the Lover, the King, the Storyteller — and many more. These are not labels. They are living forces, each with a light expression and a shadow, and together they form the energetic architecture of your personality, your choices, and your life.
Most of us are being run by patterns we have never examined. Archetypal consulting brings those patterns into the light — not to judge them, but to know them. And once you truly know yourself, you have the real gift of empowerment: real choice.
You’ve got to be who you were born to be.
It's not an option. It's a calling.
Do You Know Your Archetypes?
An archetype is a universal pattern of power that you were born understanding. It is a lens through which you experience the world, express your personality, and confront challenges. A stencil that manages the flow of power through your life.
If one of your archetypes does not get an opportunity to shine through, it will find a way in anyway — through depression, through illness, through a restlessness you cannot name. Your archetypes are not optional. They are your calling.
Know thyself — not as a philosophical exercise, but because if you do not know what you are here to do, you risk leaving this earth unfulfilled.
Hundreds of archetypes exist. These are just a few. Do any call to you?
My Philosophy
The ancient instruction “know thyself” is not a platitude. It is the foundation of health, freedom, and a whole life.
What I have found through this work — both in my own life and with the people I work with — is that suffering often comes from being unconscious of the forces moving through us. We react. We repeat. We wonder why the same patterns keep showing up in different costumes. Archetypal consulting is a way out of that cycle — not by fixing anything, but by seeing clearly.
When you can name the part of you that is making a decision, you arrive at a moment of genuine choice. That moment is where empowerment lives. When our patterns run without our awareness, tomorrow tends to look just like yesterday — the patterns are making the decisions, and we are not creating. But when you can see the full cast of characters within you and choose who you want to be in that moment, you create yourself. You create your environment. You create a new possibility for a new future. By exercising choice in every moment of your life, you create the you that you want to be and the life that you want to live.
The beautiful thing about this work is that there is something deeply alive about meeting the full cast of characters within you and understanding how they have been shaping your story. As you come to know them, you become freer — not free of them, but free to use them consciously, to evolve them, to choose which voice leads when — because in different contexts, different archetypes run the show, and knowing that is everything.
This is not just self-knowledge for its own sake. We all come into life with sacred contracts — specific missions or purposes. Your archetypes are the companions that help you fulfill those contracts. When you understand them, you move out of fate — the unconscious repetition of old patterns — and into destiny: the highest expression of yourself in each moment.
Every engagement looks a little different because every person is different.
In an introductory call, we simply talk. Why are you here? What are you curious about? What patterns are you noticing? I listen for themes and begin asking questions that help bring what is underneath into view.
In a one-off session, we go wherever you need to go — a particular question, a recurring pattern, something you are trying to understand about yourself or your life. I listen, point out what I hear, and ask the questions that open things up. These conversations can be surprisingly illuminating, even in a single session.
If you choose to go deeper, I take you on what I think of as an Archetypal Consulting journey. This is a three-to-six-month process of guided self-exploration and biweekly sessions. I give you structured questions and reflection prompts to work through on your own. We then meet to explore what you find together.
My experience has been that doing this kind of deep work alone can get heady. Having someone to reflect back to you, ask the questions you would not ask yourself, and help pull you out of the spirals makes all the difference.
Together we identify your personal archetypes — your natal patterns, the ones that have been with you your whole life. Once we find them, we begin to understand how they show up: in your relationships, your work, your health, your creativity, your spiritual life. We look at the light and the shadow of each one. Then we cast your Chart of Origin — a map of your archetypal landscape that shows where each pattern plays out most strongly in your life. This chart becomes a foundation, a tool you return to again and again.
From there, we move into the fate to destiny process. Once you know your patterns — truly know them — you are no longer bound to repeat them. You can begin to consciously create the life you are here to live.
This is not therapy, though it can be deeply therapeutic. It is an education in your spiritual architecture and your patterns of choice.
What Session Is Like
Chart of Origin
A map of your archetypal landscape, how your archetypes play out in the different areas of your life.
Who Is This For?
This work is for anyone who senses that there is more to understand about why they do what they do. People come to archetypal consulting at turning points — after a loss, a crisis, a divorce, a health scare, a spiritual awakening, or simply a growing restlessness that something needs to change.
It is also for people who are already on a path of self-knowledge and want to go deeper. If you have done therapy, meditation, energy work, or spiritual practice and still feel like something is running the show beneath the surface, this is often the missing piece.
And it is for people who are simply curious. Who want to know themselves the way a great novel knows its characters — with honesty, complexity, and a certain awe.
Getting Started
There are a few ways to begin.
We can start with a free introductory call — a chance to meet, talk about what is alive for you, and see if this feels like the right fit.
If you have a specific question or pattern you want to explore, a single session may be exactly what you need.
And if you are ready for the deeper journey — to find your core archetypes, cast your Chart of Origin, and begin working with your patterns in a sustained way — we can talk about what that looks like for you.