Dr. Guilford Dudley is a Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM, offering psychotherapy to the full spectrum of people with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress syndrome, and those seeking the way of the soul.

Dr. Dudley also offers online mental health counseling via Skype, phone, and video.He offers group video relationship counseling. His online clients can experience the help offered by Dr. Dudley's counseling in the comfort and convenience of their own homes. Dr. Dudley speaks regularly with his online clients and can visit them should the need arise.

He began his own journey to Jung’s kind of healing/transformative work when he volunteered at a Berlin refugee camp less than a decade after World War II, counseling refugees suffering from post-traumatic stress and listening to their individual traumas after the bombing of Dresden, atrocities by the Red Army, and their hope for a humanizing life in the West. He himself barely escaped being killed by a Russian soldier in Berlin.

After Berlin Guil prepared for and entered the ministry, with the feeling that he had to integrate the inhumanity he found in the war stories with the Christian message, and he invited artists who were Holocaust survivors to display their paintings and sculpture in the church where he was an associate pastor, specializing in counseling.

Later he returned to Yale University for a graduate degree in an interdisciplinary program designed by himself and faculty members for studying the relationship between the biblical apocalypse, the Book of Revelation, and the apocalyptic imagination in fiction. He authored a book on his findings, The Recovery of Christian Myth. The book included the theories of C. G. Jung, and his interest in Jung continued into his career in teaching at universities, where his graduate courses focused on religion and psychology, especially as they appear through the prism of myth and ritual.

His own training to become a Jungian analyst offered seminars in poetry, to which Guil was strongly drawn. Poetry writing was taught in his Jungian training program in Los Angeles as a way to develop one’s intuition and feeling, and to learn the language of the soul.

By now he has completed not only a collection of poems, but a manuscript for a third book. This book, Personal Trauma, Individuation, and Global Apocalypse, takes trauma rituals in both tribal and mainstream religions as a paradigm for the individual’s potential in progressing through stages of trauma and its memory to a more individuated state. The stages encapsulate Jung’s alchemical stages of development from confronting darkness and death to a state of wholeness, that is, beginning a new life.

Recent years have taken him to the healing edges of wild nature, where he offers various forms of wilderness therapy, founded Equestrian Quest, and offers equine assisted therapy from the perspective of Jungian analysis and therapy.

He offers a summer camp for bi-polar children, using animals. It is the only one of its kind in the U.S.

Guil offers workshops and lectures throughout the country. Contact with him can be made through this website.

Why Jungian Analysis?

Jung's approach differs from other forms of psychotherapy by emphasizing what the soul wants (individuation), regardless of whether that path conforms to the values of society. Instead of simply helping people to adjust, his approach always holds open the possibility that the society itself may be sick. Guideposts along the way of the individual's journey come from dreams, as well as from the sessions themselves. Dreams that seem the most disturbing often are the most helpful. The darker corners of the psyche actually contribute to the wholeness that individuation requires. Jung's psychology also takes seriously the spiritual dimensions of the psyche -- dimensions that may not conform to established religious dogma but often draw energy from myths and symbols embedded in the collective memory of our species.

Further Background

Dr. Dudley is a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. He has a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and three degrees from Yale University. His writings include two published works, a third to which he contributed, and a manuscript for a new book. He has taught on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Vanderbilt University, San Diego State University, and Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Upcoming Events

September 16, 2011 - .lecture in Phoenix, AZ under the auspices of the Phoenix Friends of Jung. The lecture is entitled:  “Descent into Hell: the Soul’s Other Journey.”  The venue will be announced.

September 17, 2011 - Workshop on the same subject as above.

Any one interested should contact Dr. Dudley through this website.

For more information about these and other events, contact Guilford Dudley at 505-570-0577 or 505-286-8919; or email gdudley3@q.com