Welcome to the Center for Clinical and Depth Psychology
Welcome, and thank you for visiting my website. Whether you are struggling with a personal issue or problem, interested in relationship therapy, or ready to explore the possibility of deep psychological transformation, I am committed to providing a safe, open, and caring environment for you or your loved one to do psychological work.
Each of us may begin psychotherapy for different reasons; some are faced with an immediate crisis or traumatic experience, while others may be experiencing painful symptoms of depression, anxiety, loneliness, addictive behavior, anger, or grief. Couples may seek therapy to resolve relationship issues or to gain a solid foundation for the future. Many individuals seek to explore more existential but no less important questions of meaning, identity, sexuality, spirituality, philosophy, gender issues, psychology, politics and power. All of these are excellent reasons for taking up work in depth psychotherapy.
If you are in need of a therapist or licensed psychologist in Orange County, call or text me today at (657) 217-1141 or email me at jmsandovalphd@gmail.com. You may also leave a message on this website here.
*** If you are having a psychiatric emergency, please call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. Do not attempt to access emergency care through this website. ***
Jungian Psychology
C.G. Jung famously said, "I would rather be whole than good." This idea, in its myriad forms, is the foundation for successful psychodynamic therapy. Wholeness, or experiencing oneself as fully genuine and expressed, is recognized as the foundation of psychological health. Symptoms such as depression, loneliness, anxiety, grief, unwanted behaviors, or problems in relationships are viewed not merely as negative experiences to be done away with. Rather, they may reflect unconscious (unknown) parts of ourselves that need our attention. Painful symptoms may underlie a frustrated longing to know and discern one's true self or calling in life, for example. Psychodynamic therapy addresses both symptoms and the unconscious thoughts that give rise to them through an honest dialogue between the ego (one's constructed persona) and the non-ego or genuine self.
-Carved over the door of Jung's Kuessnacht home
Archetypal Psychology
A Tribute to Dr. James Hillman (1926 - 2011)
Archetypal Psychology grew out of Jung's ideas and focuses on the notion of what James Hillman called "soul-making" as a primary component of therapeutic work. But here we are speaking not of soul in a spiritual or metaphysical sense; soul is not seen as a substantiated "thing" but rather as the very essence and exhilaration of life itself - what we experience when we are confronted by deep love, profound beauty, art, adventure, poetry and literature, major life events, global history, and world cultures. Archetypal psychology provides a perspective, a way of seeing. This perspective is committed to imagining problems metaphorically rather than literally: it strives to see through the obvious
concrete reality to the larger underlying, even mythic and archetypal, dynamics of soul.
“Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.” - James Hillman
Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority
"In the deepest sense we exist not as organism, but as soul or Geist."
-Wolfgang Giegerich
Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.
(I love Plato, but I love the truth more. -Socrates)-A favorite saying of Dr. Giegerich
