Our Faculty

Jason E. Smith, IAAP

Jason E. Smith is an author and Jungian analyst in private practice in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. He was previously the president of the Training Board of the C. G. Jung Institute in Boston. He received his Master’s degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute and graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute - Boston with a diploma in Analytical Psychology.

Jason is the creator and host of the podcast, Digital Jung: The Symbolic Life in a Technological Age and the author of Religious But Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life (2020).

Video Courses available now:
Anatomy of the Psyche Reading Group

His past course offerings have included:

The Spirit Mercurius - Jungian Alchemical Studies Reading Group
Ego and Archetype Reading Group
The Symbol of the Grail: Parzival and the Path of Individuation
The Secret of the Golden Flower Reading Group

ELISABETH POMèS, IAAP

Originally from France, Elisabeth Pomès is a Jungian analyst in prviate practice in Toronto, Canada and online and a faculty member of Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts. She has Bachelor of Music (Université de Montréal), a Master of Music (University of Toronto), and a Master's Degree in Literature (Paris). She has given concert and opera performances on both sides of the Atlantic and is the developer of Performance Without Fear, a course in which she used her background in singing, yoga, Qigong, meditation and psychotherapy to help artists release tension both physically and psychologically. She belongs to the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts (OAJA) and is a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).

Recent courses:
Animus: Friend or Foe
Fathers & Daughters

David pressault, IAAP

David Pressault is a Jungian analyst with a strong background in the Arts. He has a Masters in dance from UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) and was a professional dancer and choreographer for 20 years. He developed a relationship to the unconscious through that art form. Today, he works in private practice and is a faculty member of the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts.

Join David for:

THE JOURNEY COURSE • Thursdays beginning Jan. 2026
A 20 week exploration of Jungian psychology’s core themes and their influence on your life

Video Courses available now:
Creativity, Freedom & Our Parental Complexes
The Symbolic Language of Dreams
On The Persona - Coming soon

Dr. Helge Osterhold

Dr. Helge Osterhold is a psychotherapist, purpose guide, and a member of CIIS’ East-West Psychology’s core faculty. For 10 years, Dr. Osterhold served at the University of California San Francisco, in pediatric palliative care and as an educator and program director on mindful caregiving and clinician resiliency at UCSF Children's Hospital and faculty at UCSF School of Medicine. Originally from Germany, he pursued higher education in California, earning a B.A. in Human Relations, M.A. in Integral Counseling Psychology, and Ph.D. in East-West Psychology. He is a licensed psychotherapist and maintains a depth-oriented private psychotherapy practice with a focus on life transitions. 

His upcoming coures include:

Befriending the Shadow: A Jungian Experiential Inquiry • 4 Thursdays starting May 14 - Coming soon!

Béa Gonzalez, M.A.

Béa Gonzalez is a writer, lecturer, and educator. She has an MA in History and Literature from the University of London. Her novels have been published in Canada by HarperCollins and in seven other countries. Her second novel, The Mapmaker's Opera, was adapted into a musical by Kevin Purcell and featured at the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival. She is also the founder of SophiaCycles, a project aimed at teaching metaphorical thinking through an examination of classical works, myth and fairy tales, and she co-hosts two podcasts: Gatherings and Archetypes and the Planets.

Her past courses have included:

The Archetypal Venus

GARY S. BOBROFF, M.A.

Gary S. Bobroff founded Jungian Online in 2011 and JUNG Archademy in 2021.

He grew up in the ‘jewel of the prairies’, the Canadian city of Saskatoon, SK. He was the beneficiary of a tremendous public education, one that included doing the MBTI™ at age 13. Alongside an early career in technology, he completed a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada and a Master’s degree in Jungian-oriented Counselling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute of Santa Barbara, CA.

He is a certified administrator of the MBTI™ and has been working with it and an archetypal personality developed by Antonia ‘Toni’ Wolff for over 25 years – Archetypal Nature.

Gary speaks and gives seminars internationally and is the author of the Jungian psychology best seller: Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung ( 2020).

Join Gary for:
Archetypal Insights into Human Nature

Past Courses:

Synchronicity and the Goddess of Meaning with Cynthia Cavalli)
Introduction to Jungian Psychology

CHANTAL POWELL, PH. D.

Chantal Powell is an UK-based artist, educator and curator. Her art practice explores the symbolic language of the unconscious and is informed by a PhD in social psychology (Southampton University, UK) and an ongoing study of Jungian theory and inner alchemy.

Over recent years she has been researching first-hand the imagery in alchemical manuscripts and notebooks from the 15th and 16th century. Combining archetypal symbols from these sources alongside those from mythology and personal inner work, she makes art that brings awareness to the importance of energy-filled symbols to connect us to a world beyond that of the rational conscious.

Chantal is also the founder of the artist residency program Hogchester Arts in West Dorset and hosts the speaker program "The Red Book Club". She presents illustrated talks and workshops on psychological alchemy from an artist’s perspective and has co-curated exhibitions with a focus on archetypally symbolic art. 

Enjoy Chantal’s video courses available now:

The Symbolic Language of the Unconscious

The Stone: Meditations on an Archetypal Symbol

Jayson Wong, M.a., iaap

Jayson Wong, M.A (IAAP) is a registered psychotherapist and Jungian analyst in private practice in Ontario and a faculty member of the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts.

He received a B.A. in philosophy and M.A. in the field of religious studies, with major in Buddhism. He taught for five years as instructor at Nalanda College of Buddhist Studies in Toronto.

A primary interest of is in the area of religious studies, in particular the religious ideas and practices of Taoism, of Buddhism, of the I Ching and also the mystical traditions of Christian teachings. He has presented seminars for the public and taught courses for training-candidates in the above areas in the context of Jungian psychotherapy. He considers the role that spirituality plays in psychotherapy as well as the role that psychotherapy plays in the development of one’s spiritual consciousness. In his autobiography, Jung writes:

“The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. . . . If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desire and attitudes change. In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted.” 

Join Jayson for:
Encountering the Tao in Psychotherapy - March 2026

Past courses:
Time and Timelessness: Working with the I Ching and Jungian Psychotherapy

BEGÜM GÜRSES-SULZER, MSC., IAAP 

Begüm is an Istanbul-born Jungian analyst based in Switzerland. For the majority of her life,  Begüm has been a helper. Besides her Jungian practice, she worked as a learning support for neurodiverse children, as a social worker with adults with autism (and with violent behavior), and she volunteered and later worked for an NGO.  “The helper” role has been a  theme that touched and intrigued her deeply, which brought her to the writing of her Jungian Diploma thesis on this topic.

Begüm grew passionate about helping helpers in and outside their helper role. As a helper, she aims to raise awareness of the unspoken aspects, challenges, and blindspots of being a helper. She offers courses and group work focusing on helping professions, and burnout. You can find more about her work at www.begumgurses.com

Her past courses include:

Burnout: A Call For Transformation with analyst Begüm Gürses-Sulzer - Sundays starting Nov. 30