DEPTH PSYCHOTHERAPY

Depth psychotherapy is for those who know that symptom relief alone is not enough.

You may be highly functional in your life. Capable. Intelligent. Reflective.

And still sense that something deeper is organizing your relationships, your sexuality, your anxiety, your longings, or your repeated patterns.

Depth psychotherapy is a disciplined, relational process of working with the unconscious. It is not short-term problem solving. It is not surface coaching. It is an immersive exploration of the underlying structures of the psyche that shape how you love, defend, desire, attach, and protect.

This work is often longer-term and requires commitment. In return, it offers structural change rather than temporary relief.

Working with the Unconscious

In depth psychotherapy, we attend to what operates beneath conscious awareness.

We explore:

• Repeating relational patterns

• Early attachment templates

• Erotic and emotional dynamics

• Dreams and symbolic material

• Defenses that once protected you but now constrain you

Techniques may include dreamwork, free association, active imagination, and careful attention to the therapeutic relationship itself. The consulting room becomes a living laboratory where unconscious dynamics can be observed, understood, and metabolized rather than enacted.

This approach is particularly powerful for individuals and couples navigating trauma, sexuality concerns, depression, anxiety, relationship ruptures, identity exploration, or complex life transitions.

Psychoanalytic and Jungian Foundations

Dr. Renye completed formal training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy through Access Institute in San Francisco.

She has engaged in multi-year analytic study through the CG Jung Institute of San Francisco, including year-long and two-year programs focused on dream analysis, symbolic process, and depth-oriented theory.

Her analytic development has been further supported through case conferences and continuing education with the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

This foundation informs a practice rooted in rigor, symbolic literacy, relational awareness, and psychological depth.

Embodiment and the Body

The unconscious does not live only in thought. It lives in the body.

Body awareness and applied somatic psychology are integrated into treatment. Dr. Renye’s doctoral research explored embodied spiritual and psychological experience, and she furthered her training as a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher and certified Yoga Therapist.

Rather than treating the body as a separate modality, this work integrates analytic depth with somatic awareness. Anxiety, desire, dissociation, trauma, and pleasure are not only discussed. They are tracked, felt, and metabolized through nervous system regulation and embodied presence.

Frequency and Commitment

Depth psychotherapy is most effective when sessions occur at least once weekly, and sometimes more frequently depending on clinical needs and goals.

Healing is not linear. It unfolds in layers. Patterns surface, dissolve, and reorganize over time.

Dr. Renye works with individuals, couples, and complex relational constellations, including adult children and parents, blended families, open relationship structures, sex workers and their partners, and other nontraditional relational configurations.

Her practice is intentionally small and specialized to allow for sustained, focused depth work.

Education

Dr. Renye holds a Master’s degree in Human Sexuality from Widener University in Philadelphia, one of only two accredited graduate programs in human sexuality in the United States. This foundational training informs her integrated approach to sexuality, desire, intimacy, and embodiment within depth psychotherapy.

She also earned both a Master’s and a Doctorate (PsyD) in Clinical Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, with emphasis on psychospirituality, unconscious process, and embodied experience.

Dr. Renye is trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy through the Access Institute and has completed multi-year analytic programs at the CG Jung Institute of San Francisco, including year-long and two-year Jungian studies in symbolic process and analytic theory. Her training has been deepened through ongoing case conferences and consultation with the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.