Barbara Holifield, MSW, MFT, SEP, is a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She integrates the bodily-felt dimension of experience into Jungian analysis and depth psychotherapeutic process. Having taught somatic psychology for two decades at the California Institute of Integral Studies, being certified in Somatic Experiencing, as well as an international teacher of authentic movement, a deep feeling for the body pulses through her work.

Another strong current in Barbara’s life has been an immersion in wilderness. In her early adulthood, she journeyed extensively through the desert, red rock canyons, and high mountains of North America. She worked as a wilderness therapist and led rites of passage groups focused on intrapersonal exploration and creating conscious community. This immersion remains a vital part of her life, profoundly influencing her psychotherapeutic thinking and practice. Barbara sees our embodied psyche as indissolubly related to the natural world. 

She is the author of several articles exploring embodiment, trauma, and our participation with the dream of the earth, and a new book, Being with the Body in Depth Psychology: Development, Trauma, and Transformation in the Unspoken Realm.