groups
ANCESTRAL PSYCHE
Santuary for Women's Healing
I offer a Women's Healing group offering a sacred confidential space to explore the interweaving of psyche, body, land, and lineage. This Women's Healing group is meant to be a refuge where analytic depth connects with ecological attunement. Drawing from psychoanalysis and ecopsychology, participants are invited to explore ancestral memory, feminine wisdom, grief, and resilience as envibed within the body. Through dialogue, reflection, and embodied awareness, members cultivate practices of healing that honor both personal histories and the wider ecological ground of belonging, within a sanctuary of care, confidentiality, and clinical integrity.
This group is for women seeking depth, attunement, and relational belonging.
Space is limited. To learn more or reserve a space, email me at: connect@thezwillingproject.com.
GRIEF GROUP
The Mourning Field
This grief group offers a steady refuge where sorrow can rest. Grounded in psychoanalytic understanding and guided by the quiet teachings of the natural world, the circle explores loss as an inner reorganization shaped by memory, longing, and the slow return of meaning. Through contemplative conversation, embodied settling, and images drawn from the living earth, I invite participants practice remaining close to grief while uncovering steadier places of internal support. Desired outcomes include renewed and deepened belonging to the cycles of life and death.
Curricular Overview
The group begins by framing grief as part of the long human lineage of mourning—what Jung called “the secret history of the soul” (Jung, 1961). We situate loss within both psychological and existential traditions, drawing on Freud’s description of mourning as the inner “work” of reorganizing the self (Freud, 1917/1957) and Yeats’s reminder that “[hu]man is in love and loves what vanishes” (Yeats, 1896/1950). Together, these perspectives help participants understand grief as a natural, though often disorienting, process.
Foundations and Practices
Sessions pair analytic reflection with simple earth-rooted practices—breathwork, stillness, journaling, and art-making—to support the emotional and symbolic capacities that grief requires. These activities help participants notice subtle shifts in affect, regain self-soothing abilities, and strengthen the internal grounding that often weakens in the aftermath of loss.
Relational and Ancestral Dimensions
As the group deepens, we turn toward the relational, archetypal, and ancestral layers of grief. Drawing on Winnicott’s understanding that emotional life depends on a reliable psychic environment (Winnicott, 1965), the group becomes a steady place where loss can be expressed and witnessed without pressure to resolve or explain. Natural imagery—seasonal changes, soil renewal, animal rhythms—offers additional ways to understand grief as part of a larger living order.
Integration
With time, many participants find that their grief begins to reorganize into a renewed sense of meaning and connection. The curriculum supports this movement by helping individuals cultivate steadier internal resources and a more coherent relationship to the enduring cycle of life and death.
To learn more or reserve a space, email me at: connect@thezwillingproject.com.
Address provided upon patient sign up.
WOMEN'S GROUP
Re-Wilding the Feminine
This women’s circle rests on a psychoanalytic foundation that attends to the hidden life of the psyche, ancestral echoes, and the steadying presence of the natural world. Guided by Winnicott’s reminder that “it is a joy to be hidden, and a disaster not to be found,” we explore grief, longing, and the feminine wild as expressions seeking recognition.
Drawing on Joanna Macy’s insight that our personal suffering is intertwined with the wider world’s sorrow—and that healing unfolds when we remember our participation in the larger web of life—the circle invites women to re-enter a more ancient belonging. Through reflective dialogue, somatic grounding, sound, ritual, and earth-rooted imagery, the group becomes a holding environment where old patterns soften, the defensive shell loosens, and authentic selfhood can slowly re-emerge in relation to land, lineage, and community.
To learn more or reserve a space, email me at: connect@thezwillingproject.com.
Address provided upon patient sign up.