Phoenix, Arizona
Jungian Analysis & Depth Psychology
As Featured In
Science of Dreams: a eight-part documentary series
Something Has Been Calling
You have done the work. And yet something essential remains out of reach.
My practice draws people through many different doors. Some have spent years in conventional treatment and found something essential still out of reach. Some encountered Jung unexpectedly, in a book or a conversation, and felt something recognize itself before they could name it. Some have never been in therapy at all, only followed by a persistent dream, or a quiet knowing that what troubles them most contains something worth understanding.
You are not here because you are broken. You are here because a part of you suspects that the anxiety, the grief, the recurring dream, the inexplicable flatness are not problems to be solved. They are messages from somewhere deeper than the ego can reach alone.
Jung believed the call to deep, soulful work came in the second half of life. The map that carried you here no longer fits where you are going. But the work need not wait for a particular age or milestone. It begins the moment you choose to meet your own suffering with curiosity rather than avoidance. If something in these words is landing, you are already at the threshold.
You have done enough symptom management.
You are ready to understand what the symptoms mean.
The old map no longer fits.
You are looking for a different kind of guide.
You believe your dreams are speaking.
You are ready to listen.
What Conventional Psychology Misses
Most therapy teaches you to cope. Jungian analysis teaches you to understand.
- You have reduced the anxiety, but the feeling of being fundamentally off course remains
- A dream keeps returning, varying only slightly. Something in you knows it matters.
- You have achieved what you set out to achieve, and you feel quietly empty
- You move through relationships and work with competence, while something underneath stays mute and waiting
- The spiritual or mythic dimension of life calls to you, and conventional psychology has no language for it
- You suspect that what looks like depression may actually be the Psyche insisting on something larger
- You are facing a threshold (a death, a divorce, a career undoing, an identity in question) and you want to meet it with more than coping strategies
This is the territory that Jungian analysis was designed to enter.
Your Analyst
I have spent twenty years learning how the Psyche speaks.
Lori Tyler, PhD
- Licensed Psychologist — AZ & CA
- 20 Years in Practice
- Co-Director, Kieffer E. Franz Clinic
I am Lori Tyler, a licensed psychologist and Certified Jungian Analyst based in Phoenix, Arizona. My training at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles spanned many years: rigorous coursework, supervised clinical hours, and my own depth analysis. That last part is not a formality. You cannot credibly accompany someone into the unconscious without having made the journey yourself. Becoming an analyst is not a career path. It is a calling. I know this territory not only as a clinician but as someone who has walked it.
My training reaches beyond clinical psychology into the disciplines that gave the unconscious its vocabulary: alchemy, theology, Greek mythology, anthropology, mystical texts. The accumulated record of how human beings across every culture have given form to the formless. I study them not as academic curiosity but as method. The unconscious speaks in symbol. Symbol requires a reader who knows the literature.
I earned my PhD in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology and have been in licensed practice since 2005. In 2018, I completed certification as a Jungian Analyst through the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, a training process that changed me as much as it credentialed me. I see clients at my office in the Desert Ridge area of Phoenix.
Education & Affiliations
As Seen In
Science of Dreams
Healthline featured me as a dream expert in their eight-part documentary series on the science of sleep and dreaming. I appeared alongside sleep researchers, neurologists, and psychologists from institutions across the country.
"Being a Jungian Analyst is more than a vocation. It is a calling."
The Work
This is not a place to manage your symptoms. It is a place to understand them.
Individual Analysis
The central work
Individual Jungian analysis is an ongoing depth relationship between analyst and client: a space in which the unconscious is given room to speak and the conscious mind is given the tools to listen. We work with whatever the Psyche presents. Dreams, symptoms, repetitive patterns, emotional reactions that seem disproportionate, life circumstances that feel as though they are trying to teach you something.
This work is not brief. It does not resolve in eight sessions. Transformation is slow by nature, and it is real. Over time, you develop a living relationship with your inner world: the capacity to read your own symbolic language, to recognize the complexes that have been running the show, to make choices from a more whole self.
I work with adults navigating anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions, spiritual dryness, existential questions, relationship difficulties, trauma, and the particular loneliness of feeling like no one in your life is asking the questions you most need to ask. I also work with individuals considering Jungian analyst training who need to complete personal analysis as part of that process.
Sessions are $250. Sliding scale available. In Arizona: Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, and most PPO plans accepted. California telehealth clients: Aetna, UBH, Blue Shield, and Anthem.
Couples Work
Two psyches in relation
Couples work from a Jungian lens treats the relationship as its own living entity, with its own dynamics, its own shadow, its own developmental arc. Beyond communication patterns and conflict resolution, I'm interested in what each partner carries unconsciously into the room: the unlived life, the parental complexes, the archetypal projections that cause us to see in our partner not who they are, but who the unconscious has cast them to be.
This work is appropriate for couples at any stage: newly committed and wanting to begin consciously, long-partnered and navigating a threshold, or facing a rupture that carries more meaning than the surface event contains.
Couples sessions are $275. Cash only. In-person in Phoenix.
Dream Tending Group
Forming now. Join the waitlist.
Carl Jung understood dreams as direct communications from the unconscious. Not random noise. The Psyche's own method of self-correction, compensation, and guidance. The symbolic language of dreams is ancient and precise, and learning to read it changes how you move through waking life.
My dream tending group will be a small, intimate gathering for adults who wish to develop a serious relationship with their dream life. Participants need not be in individual analysis, but should come with genuine curiosity and a willingness to meet the symbolic.
Sessions are $70–$80.
You're on the list. Lori will reach out when the group forms.
What Clients Say
The work speaks.
"I have been seeing Dr. Tyler for about six years. She does not give advice — she allows you to find your own answers within yourself, and when you are struggling to find those answers, she guides you through the process. One can truly see that she cares genuinely. She knows when to encourage deeper engagement and when to hold back and allow the patient to lead. Without Dr. Tyler, I don't think I would be working full time, let alone living."
"Dr. Tyler was extremely thoughtful and attentive to my psychological needs — always responsive, often quicker than anticipated. I feel very comfortable sharing my struggles and concerns. She has helped me navigate through my processes and has had a huge positive impact on my life. My experience with her continues to move and grow in a positive direction."
"I have worked with Lori for six years and she has made a real difference in my life. She is very insightful and patient. I can recommend her with the greatest confidence — if you get the chance to work with Lori, you will not be disappointed."
Beginning the Work
The threshold is simpler than it may feel from this side.
Begin the Conversation
Call or email to schedule a complimentary 15-minute consultation. This is not an intake. It's a brief conversation to determine whether we're a good fit for each other. No pressure. If it's not the right time, I'll tell you so honestly.
Enter the Work
If we decide to proceed, our first full session is 50 minutes. We begin where you are: with whatever is present, whatever has been calling, whatever brought you to this threshold. From there, the analytical relationship finds its own rhythm and depth.
Live with Greater Wholeness
Over time, the unconscious material shaping your life from behind the scenes becomes known. And knowing it changes your relationship to it. Complexes lose their grip. Dreams become navigable. Slowly, the life you're actually living begins to align with the life your Psyche has been pointing toward.
Common Questions
What you may be wondering.
The distinction is significant. A Certified Jungian Analyst has completed a multi-year post-doctoral training program at an accredited Jung Institute: extensive coursework, supervised clinical hours, and their own in-depth personal analysis. They're then certified by the International Association of Analytic Psychology. There are fewer than 4,000 certified analysts in the world. A Jungian-informed therapist may incorporate Jungian ideas into their work but hasn't completed this training and can't hold the title. I am one of approximately four Certified Jungian Analysts practicing in the Phoenix Metro.
Longer than most people expect. And shorter than the rest of your life feels without it. This is not a brief intervention. Engagement with the unconscious is measured in months and years, not sessions. Most people find that the relationship with their inner life they develop through this work changes how they move through everything that follows. Every analytical relationship is different. Some people work with me around a particular threshold; others for years. We discover the rhythm together.
Yes, with a few things worth knowing. In Arizona, I accept Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, and PPO plans with out-of-network benefits. For California clients, I offer telehealth and accept Aetna, UBH, Blue Shield, and Anthem. Some insurance plans do not cover Jungian analysis specifically, so I recommend verifying your benefits before we begin. A sliding scale is available for those for whom cost would otherwise put this work out of reach. Please ask. Individual sessions are $250. Couples sessions are $275. Group sessions are cash only.
People rarely arrive at this door ahead of schedule. If you're asking the question, something in you has already decided. The complimentary 15-minute consultation exists precisely for this moment. It requires nothing of you except a willingness to have a brief conversation. If it's not the right fit, I'll tell you so honestly.
Telehealth is available for both Arizona and California clients. For California clients, telehealth is the only format I offer. My strong recommendation for depth work is in-person where possible. The analytical relationship is somatic. Something is present in a room that doesn't fully survive a screen. My office is at 20860 North Tatum Boulevard, Suite 300, in the Desert Ridge area of Phoenix.
Entirely. Many of my most committed clients came in having never read a word of Jung. Curiosity is the only prerequisite: a willingness to take your inner life seriously, and an openness to the possibility that what troubles you most may also contain what you most need to know.
The Next Step
The unconscious does not wait for the perfect moment. Neither should you.
A complimentary 15-minute consultation is available. No commitment, no pressure. If what you have read here has named something you've been carrying, that recognition is worth following.
Lori Tyler, PhD
Certified Jungian Analyst · Licensed Psychologist
20860 North Tatum Boulevard, Suite 300Phoenix, AZ 85050 (909) 938-0919
Monday · 10am – 6pm
Tuesday · 10am – 4pm
Wednesday · 10am – 6pm
Thursday · 10am – 5pm
Friday · 10am – 6pm
Saturday & Sunday · Closed
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