As human beings we are destined to suffer from psychological conflicts. 

We all have different tendencies and desires that sometimes need to be curbed but other times need to be incorporated to our personalities and lives. Deciding and promoting what we want to be or to do in our lives is definitely not an easy task.

Today we trust too much our self-control and will power when it comes to determining how life should be lived. We choose what we believe to be the best, we repress all that won’t fit into our model and we go on in a self assured way.

This decision-making process generally reflects our ambitions on future progresses and also our fears of alternative paths or of characteristics we would never like to associate with who we are.

However, not always we need in life what we think to be the best to ourselves. When such a conflict occurs our body tries to warn us by sending alert signs. Anguish, anxiety, depression and disturbing dreams are just some examples of these signs.

Commonsense says those are just unexplainable physical symptoms that must be eliminated with an ordinary medicine so “life can come back to what we want it to be”. Psychologically speaking, such approach would be equivalent to treating a fever with an antipyretic without any concern for the infection that might be causing the symptom. Fever is a sign of danger in our body and trying to eliminate this sign without assimilating the message it’s telling us would be dangerous for the body.

It is necessary to try and find out what the signs are indicating instead of shutting them down just because they are disturbing.

Psychotherapy does represent one of the most efficient ways when trying to understand the reason behind disturbing psychological or even physical (when they manifest themselves as psychosomatic symptoms, such as headaches, muscle pain, stomachaches, reflux, breathlessness, etc.) signs.

Here at YARDEN we offer the Jungian based psychotherapy with or without the association of prescribed medicine, according to the needs of each client. 



Our approach

Each one of us has the unique potential to contribute to the world, through our individual characteristics. However, we may find it difficult to integrate this potential into our lives, which makes us feel we’re not making the most of our lives.

When approaching the integration of this potential into our lives, it is first necessary to identify the potential by finding out who we are and what our missions in life might be.

The source of this potential is a mystery and we can name it according to our own personal believes: God, wisdom, inner voice, inspiration, gift, etc.

At YARDEN we accept this mystery and we do not try to explain, justify it or associate it with a particular belief or religion. Our job is to try to identify this unique potential in our clients and to help them integrate it into their lives.

This approach has very deep roots. We can easily find similarities with shamanic and initiation rites, used by many primitive societies in order to reach a higher level of awareness in the individual. With the beginning of the scientific approach, however, this important process was doubted by biased scientists.

The beginning of the 20th century brought great psychological developments that resulted in the recognition of the scientific validity of unconscious content. The work of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875-1961) was fundamental in bringing scientific approval to analytical psychology.

Here at the YARDEN we are strongly influenced by the Jungian approach of the analytical psychology.

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YARDEN and its symbolism

YARDEN is the Hebraic version of our family’s surname (Jordão). YARDEN means “descend or flow down” which greatly mirrors the activity in our sessions of psychotherapy, for we indeed have to dig deep down into the clients psyche in order to find out about their personal unconscious.  

At YARDEN our goal is to connect our clients with their own individual life source which can be interpreted as a “dive or a contact with the inner side”. With that we symbolically express our move to allow the expression and integration of what is unconscious to ourselves and deeply rooted in every one.

That is the inspiration behind our adoption of the Hebraic word YARDEN (also used to name the Jordan River in Israel). Its symbol of mystery deeply rooted in all of us and the immense life’s renewal that it offers is a daily inspiration to our work.