John was awarded his Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zürich, Switzerland. This Diploma permits John to practice as a Jungian Analyst.

John graduated as a psychologist from the University of Cape Town in 1989 and has worked in Victoria for the past 18 years. He began his Jungian Analysis practice in 2004, and, while still in the training programme, conducted Jungian Analysis with clients while under supervision.

In the past 15 years, prior to beginning his training as a Jungian Analyst, John managed a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.

Jungian Analysis is covered in greater detail in another section of this website. Briefly it is a form of individual psychotherapy (sometimes referred to as Jungian psychotherapy) that involves dealing with the contents of the unconscious, especially key archetypes, such as the Shadown, Animus, Anima and the Self; as well as working through common complexes we all share, such as Father complex, Mother complex, Power complex, and Competence complex.

The manner in which the ego deals with these unconscious contents is also critical, so the work of Jungian Analysis involves ego-strengthening, or ego-building approaches as well as ego-changing approaches to life.

The work of analysisis based on Jungian theory, or Analytical Psychology, a theoretical model developed by Carl Jung. Many analysands are attracted to Jungian Analysis not so much because of a problem that needs a solution, but because of an overwhelming state that persists in the psyche often occurring at mid-life.

Mid-life crises are the psyche's way of asking us to make changes to the way we lead our lives, to alter the fundamental psychodynamics of our personality and seek meaning for the second half of life. Common themes that arise in mid-life may include depression, anxiety, psychosomatic complaints and a general feeling of "there must be something more to my life than this!" Analysis involves many areas of life, but often includes the interpretation of dreams, the use of projective techniques such as the interpretation of symbols in fairy tales, in literature, and often in film.