Jungian coaching. The first session is free.
Jungian coaching is an invitation to explore your inner world, engage with what emerges, and discover how it might find expression in your everyday life. I am Leyla Akca, a creative arts psychotherapist opening a small number of coaching places. Begin with one free session; if we both feel coaching is appropriate and you want to continue, further sessions are at a rate we agree in advance. Online, in English or Turkish.
About an hour, online, free. The only initial commitment.
Paid sessions, with the rate agreed in advance, if you wish to continue and coaching is suitable.
Continuing is entirely your choice.
What if the answers you are looking for are not entirely within your conscious awareness? Dreams, images, feelings and recurring patterns can invite us to see a familiar question differently. Jungian coaching brings that exploration into conversation with the choices of everyday life.
Jung described the unconscious as more than a storehouse of what we avoid: he saw it as a source of images, patterns and creative possibility. We can approach these expressions with curiosity, without assuming that any dream or symbol has one fixed meaning.
We begin with something you are living with: a question, transition, conflict or experience that has stayed with you. Through conversation, images, drawing or active imagination when appropriate, we explore what it evokes. We return to your own associations, your present experience and the practical possibilities you discover.
Possibilities we can explore together, without prescribing what you should discover.
The meaning is yours to discover.Our work supports your autonomy, not someone else's interpretation.
From insight to integration
I am not here to tell you what your experience means. I accompany you in developing a relationship with it, discovering what it means to you, and finding your own way of bringing that understanding into life.
Sometimes something changes the way we see ourselves, but we do not yet know how to live with what we have discovered. Other times, a dream, image or recurring pattern seems to ask for our attention. We can stay curious without rushing to an explanation.
Insight alone does not necessarily create change. Together, we explore how an emerging understanding might become a choice, a conversation, a boundary or a small experiment in everyday life.
By an experience I mean anything large enough that the person who comes out is not quite the person who went in. A birth or a death. An illness or a diagnosis. Leaving a marriage, a country, a career or a faith. Love, or its ending. A ceremony, a retreat, or a stretch of intensive practice. Some of these you choose. Some arrive without asking.
The first session is the only commitment I ask you to make: an hour to explore your question and see whether this work feels appropriate. If you wish to continue and coaching is a suitable form of support, further sessions are paid at a rate we discuss in advance. Continuing is always optional.
Stage one
Free. About an hour, online, at a time that suits you.
Bring a question, experience or transition you are living with. We explore it together, and consider whether coaching is the right kind of support. This is a full session, not a sales call. There is no obligation to book another.
Book the first session
Stage two
Paid, at a rate we agree before you commit.
If the first hour opened something and coaching feels appropriate, we continue at my rate, which we discuss before you make any commitment. We can return to what emerged, explore what has shifted and consider how to bring your understanding into daily life.
Stage three
Continuing is entirely your choice.
We work together for as long as it is useful to you. You are free to stop after any session.
About an hour, online, on a video call. No preparation beyond thinking about what you might bring. You can change your mind about that when we start.
A decision, transition, recurring pattern or experience. It does not have to be clearly formed. We begin by finding language for what matters to you, without forcing a complex experience into a neat answer.
Depending on what feels appropriate, we might use a dream, a drawing, a metaphor, a symbolic image or guided imagination. There are no fixed interpretations and no artistic ability is needed. We follow your associations at a pace that feels workable.
We explore what the experience means to you, then ask how that understanding could enter your everyday life. That might be a small experiment, a different question or simply something to notice. You decide what, if anything, to take forward.
The plain terms, so that nothing about the arrangement is a surprise.
Care that fits
Not every experience needs psychotherapy. And not every experience is suited to coaching. We will keep checking what kind of support serves you, rather than forcing your needs into a single method.
If something calls for deeper clinical care or another kind of support, I will help you clarify what you need, consider who could provide it and shape a realistic next step. You remain involved in those decisions throughout.
Coaching is not crisis care or a substitute for necessary mental-health treatment.
Over the past 15 years, my work in trauma-informed mental health support, alongside my own personal journey, has shown me that not every experience requiring integration calls for therapy. Often, what is needed is a thoughtful bridge between an inner discovery and the life someone is returning to. Jungian coaching lets me work with images, imagination and the stories beneath familiar patterns while keeping the client's own meaning-making and choices at the centre. Therapy remains important when deeper clinical care is needed; coaching is a different kind of relationship, not a replacement.
I am opening a small number of coaching places. Begin with one free session. If you want to continue and coaching is appropriate, further sessions are by an agreed rate. If another form of care would serve you better, we can work out together what you need and where to find it.
Choose a time that suits you and the first session is booked. Or write a line first, in English or Turkish, and ask me anything. You do not need to have your question ready. I answer personally, usually within a few days.
If someone comes to mind who might like an hour like this, you are welcome to send them this page.
