Founded in 2010, the Spiritual and Depth Psychology (SDP) Specialization provides you with a forum to investigate, study, and practice tools for personal growth, discovering your own voice and gifts as a therapist, as well as furthering your appreciation of social and cultural identities. Spiritual and depth psychological therapeutic techniques are able to compassionately reach unconscious levels of family, community, and cultural trauma, helping to restore mental wellness that can be both meaningful and sustaining.
The Spiritual and Depth Psychology Specialization explores the intersections between mindfulness-based therapy, Jungian-based analytic psychology, and socio-cultural diversity consciousness. Students are supported in developing integrative psychotherapy techniques rooted in both traditional and evidence based practices of the East and West honoring body-mind-spirit wellness.
Our faculty embrace proactive engagement in dialogue on diversity, which specifically includes the affirmation of women, people of color, LGBTQ communities, socio-economically vulnerable, and others often underrepresented in the mental health field and in the training of psychotherapists. Courses are taught by instructors who are active contributors in the field of Spiritual and Depth Psychology, committed to advancing effective, inter-culturally informed psychotherapeutic practices.
Alumni Testimonials
"Specializing in Spiritual and Depth Psychology has completely influenced me in all aspects of my work. I feel that when I’m sitting in the room with someone I am using so much of what I learned. For example, knowing that it’s not just me and my client in the room, but parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, ancestors.. you know that really informs my work." - SDP Alumni
"My favorite part of the specialty was so many things. It was the professors who opened my mind and brain to a different way of thinking about therapy, it was the people that were in the specialty with me, it was the papers that we wrote, but mostly it was the teachers and I will always draw on that experience. " - SDP Alumni