Erica Lorentz

Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, Diplomate Jungian Analyst (IAAP), is a Jungian analyst, educator, and author whose work explores the meeting place of psyche, body, and imagination. She is a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of New England, where she has served on the Training Board, and has taught internationally in the United States, Canada, the UK, and India since 1986.

Her book Body as Shadow: Jung’s Method of Embodied Healing explores Jung’s approach to the body as an expression of the unconscious and as a pathway toward psychological integration. Drawing from Jungian psychology, embodied active imagination, dream work, Authentic Movement, and mythopoetic processes, Erica’s work invites a deeper listening to the wisdom of the somatic unconscious and the symbolic language of the body.

Erica’s lifelong exploration of embodied imagination began in 1975 through her study of Authentic Movement with Janet Adler, which became an initiation into Jung’s embodied active imagination process. Her current work focuses on the embodied mythopoetic process and the interactive field of analysis, exploring how psyche, body, relationship, and image come together in the process of transformation.

She has previously taught at Antioch New England Graduate School of Professional Psychology and served as a training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Her lectures and teachings have been featured by Pacifica Radio and the Jung Platform and continue to inspire practitioners interested in depth psychology, embodied healing, and expanded dimensions of consciousness.