FACULTY

Christina Becker, MBA, RP, has been devoted to her individuation journey and to the practice of Jungian psychoanalysis for decades. A midlife crisis in her late 30s called her to leave a successful consulting career to pursue training at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich Switzerland. She is on the faculty of the Toronto Art Therapy Institute and is a senior training analyst for the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She is the author of The Heart of the Matter: Individuation as an Ethical Process and Soul-Making: A Journey of Resilience and Spiritual Rediscovery, a memoir-guided invitation into meaning-making after loss. Drawing on Jungian depth psychology, lived experience, and spiritual practice, she explores how grief, dreams, and inner work can become catalysts for resilience, renewal, and a more soulful life. She has lectured for local Jungian communities all over the world – including Zurich, Switzerland, Johannesburg, South Africa, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto in Canada, and New York City and Tucson in the United States. She has been featured as a guest on several podcasts: The Jungian Life, Speaking of Jung, and the Medicine Path.

John Michael Hayes, Ph.D., ABPP, graduate from the Catholic University of America. He has had a long career as a psychologist and psychoanalyst in the Baltimore- Washington area. Currently he is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine; faculty and training and supervising analyst, Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute; and faculty and dean of candidates, Jungian Psychoanalytic Association. He holds degrees in theology and is a priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. He has taught pastoral psychology and spirituality at the Ecumenical Institute, St. Mary’s Seminary and University, and at the graduate programs in pastoral counseling Loyola University Maryland. He maintains a private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Baltimore.