Professional psychotherapy
I’m a Jungian analyst and psychotherapist in Glendale, Wisconsin, and Chicago Illinois, offering in-person and online therapy for adults and couples. I help people work through depression, anxiety, and relationship difficulties, heal emotional wounds, improve family relationships, and rediscover meaning, purpose, and direction in life. My approach focuses on personal growth, self-understanding, and finding a healthy balance between mind and body.
- In person & online
- Free 15-minute consultation
Vlado Solc – Jungian Analyst & Psychotherapist
Jungian Analysis
Jungian analysis, or Jungian depth-oriented psychoanalysis, is a specific mode of psychotherapy where the analyst and the analysand work together to deepen the patient’s insight.
The goal is to increase the conscious field and to achieve a sense of harmony, relief of symptoms and, at the same time, a deeper meaning in psychological suffering.
My Approach
I believe a good therapist is a steady partner walking with you through life, helping you find balance and wholeness.
As a practicing professional, I deeply appreciate the beauty and complexity of psychotherapy. Though the human psyche remains an enduring mystery, I find in it a continual source of wonder and inspiration. Psychotherapy, for me, is not merely a profession—it is a philosophy, a spiritual path, and a way of life. I am committed to exploring its depths with curiosity, humility, and unwavering dedication.
My approach is integrative and focuses on promoting wholeness. This means accepting imperfections and “shadows,” as well as realizing the unity of life’s opposites. I believe that true health involves more than just the absence of symptoms, and requires a conscious effort to understand and balance all aspects of life. To put it in the words of Jung, we should strive for the life in the midst of opposites. Every day there is more to be learned.
It cannot be fully explained by words how I work, as it is a unique and individual relation between the therapist and client that requires a continuing light of consciousness. Healing comes from responsible and conscious work on both sides; from within the deep center of our being – the Self. My techniques are designed to utilize a natural self-healing potential of the psyche. I use dream analysis, active imagination, creative art and other techniques.
Common Concerns
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Mood Disorders
- Psychological Trauma
Life & Relationships
- Grief
- Family & Marital Therapy
- Adjustment Disorders
- Existential Issues
Different ways we can work together
From deep psychotherapy to professional clinical training, find the exact form of structured space that meets your current personal or professional needs.
Start with a conversation
Psychotherapy & Counseling
Treatment of various mental health conditions with a compassionate, evidence-informed approach.
Supervision
Helping clinician professionals with their cases through guided reflection and expertise.
Consultation
Usually short-term, limited to several sessions for focused guidance and direction.
Dream Interpretation
Not a therapy on its own, though the work often brings desired elucidation.
Education & Training
Didactic and rational analysis of a given problem, for those seeking knowledge within a theoretical frame.
“It is not I who create myself, rather I happen to myself.”
“The archetype is, so to speak, an ‘eternal’ presence, and it is only a question of whether it is perceived by the conscious mind or not.”
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
“Religions are psychotherapeutic systems in the most actual meaning of the word, and in the widest measure.”
“Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.”
“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
“…is the outcome of a definite view of life endowing the occurrence, whether great or small, with a meaning to which a certain deeper value is given than to pure actuality”
“There is no light without shadow and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.”
“The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not?”
“For the alchemist, the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.”
“We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this is an art of which most people know nothing.”
“The fourth, that’s the devil. He is the only metaphysical person outside of the gods. Without the fourth there is no meaning.”
“I am convinced that 99 per cent of politics are mere symptoms and anything but a cure for social evils.”
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
“Every psychological expression is a symbol if we assume that it states or signifies something more and other than itself which eludes our present knowledge.”
“Ideas are not just counters used by the calculating mind; they are also golden vessels full of living feeling. “Freedom” is not a mere abstraction, it is also an emotion.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil.”
