Psychoanalyst

The Approach

Dedicated to a compassionate, deep, symbolically oriented approach, I integrate a grounded training in psychoanalysis with expressive and spiritual work. I have over 30 years of experience with a specialty in trauma, and the integration of spiritual work with psychoanalysis.

My favorite consultant is your unconscious — the real source of information about you. The communication from this layer of your being is symbolic communication.

As an Expressive Psychoanalyst, I have many techniques at my disposal: psychoanalysis; dream work; art therapy; mindfulness-based cognitive techniques; hypnosis and visualization; sand tray; yoga; astrology; and familiarity with Eastern and Western mystical traditions. These are in the service of you in your quest to evolve and heal.

I have had the honor to teach many students, here and abroad. My core subject is how to work with and understand symbols and metaphor to aid people's healing. I teach regularly at three universities in New York City: Pratt Institute of Design, the New School for Social Research, and the School of Visual Arts, as well as the Institute for Expressive Analysis.

I have also taught for the Korean Expressive Arts Therapy Association and Mjungi University in Seoul, South Korea, as well as lecturing internationally.

The classes I teach are: Art Diagnosis, Symbolism in Art Therapy, Alchemy, Dream Interpretation, and Symbolization and Creativity.

Also see: www.claudiabader.com  ·  www.ieanyc.org