Friends of Jung-South

Dr. Melissa Werner is a Jungian analyst, training analyst, and supervisor. Her practice includes adults, adolescents, and children. She is a frequent lecturer at the Jung Institute in Zurich/Kusnacht and leads several international Fairy Tale groups. For many years, Melissa was a professor of child development and worked as a consultant for Head Start and children’s programs across the US and the Pacific Rim. She has lectured on Play Therapy in Refugee Communities at the UN NGO Committee on the Family. Her paper, “Psychotherapeutic Interventions with Children and Adolescents: Contemporary Perspectives in the Practice of Child and Adolescent Jungian Analysis and Sandplay Therapy” was presented at the First International Conference on Child and Adolescent Jungian Analysis under the IAAP. Most recently, she presented on Trauma and Child Development and on The Dummling at the Jung Institute. She can be contacted at drmwerner@gmail.com or mswerner.com.

Dr. Chris DaSambiagio-Moore is a licensed mental health counselor and supervisor currently training in Jungian psychoanalysis through the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA). He maintains a private practice in Florence, Alabama, where he offers psychodynamic psychotherapy, and serves as a professor in a graduate clinical mental health counseling program. His clinical and scholarly interests center on the psychological dimensions of contemporary myth, fantasy, and digital culture, including video games. His work also encompasses Jungian typology, career counseling and development, addictions, and collegiate behavioral health. He is particularly drawn to the ways in which popular culture and imaginative life illuminate questions of identity, vocation, and the unconscious. He can be contacted at chris@chrismoorecounseling.com or chrismoorecounseling.com.