Minh Tran, PhD Cand., MA, LMFT

How I work with clients and patients include a synthesized methodology of modalities and theoretical approaches, based on the individualized needs and unique personalities of every client or patient. I am Jungian at the core, psychodynamic in my treatment lens, systemic and relational by profession, and transpersonal by disposition. Whether working with an individual, romantic couple or any other intimate relational formation, I attempt to facilitate deeper trust, vulnerability, and corrective emotional experiences to heal wounds and transform personalities. I use dreams, especially those dreamt soon before and shortly after a psychedelic experience, as preparation and extensions of the actual psychedelic visions and experiences in my integration counseling sessions. I have heavy influence from post-Jungian, post-transpersonal, and somatic approaches to psychotherapy as well, drawing from James Hillman’s archetypal psychology, integral psychology, and somatic experiencing. I often engage the inner-child in all of us through various expressive arts techniques, play therapy, and sandtrays. Regardless of modalities or interventions used, the aim of therapy with me ultimately is about integrating split off and unconscious aspects of one’s Self into our everyday waking ego-consciousness. I often highlight dynamic oppositions within one’s psyche as manifestations of the archetype I call “The Opposites” which I believe, in my theopsychology and theotherapy, is the primary animator of psychic life. I do this in order for my clients and patients to come into deeper relationship with their Inner-Creator-Self.