Caryn L. Aman, MA is a Jungian soul-centered therapist in private practice working with individuals, couples, and families. Caryn graduated from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California with a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology, specializing in archetypal, depth, or Jungian soul-centered therapy.  Caryn is a Certified Spiritual Director through the Franciscan Spiritual Center now located at 3159 Furman Drive, Marylhurst, Oregon 97036. In addition, Caryn is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist through the Hypnotherapy Academy of America in Albuquerque, New Mexico 87113.  

In 1994, after more than twenty-two years in the corporate world, Caryn left to follow her dreams and soul yearnings to develop a private practice creating space for individuals, couples, and families to explore, heal, and follow the soul's directions.

A deep appreciation and respect for the work of C. G. Jung, dreams, the unconscious and the wisdom of the body, combined with roots in music and voice, and a desire to help and guide others reclaiming their bodies, voices and souls, led Caryn intuitively, and by heart, to the BodySoul Rhythms (R) work of Marion Woodman, Jungian Analyst. Since an initial meeting in January 1992 at Pacifica, Caryn studied with Marion as a participant in BodySoul Rhythms (R) Intensives and as a member and graduate of the Marion Woodman Foundation Leadership Training Program.

Following a circuitous route and a seven-year process beginning in 2001, Caryn completed the Marion Woodman Foundation Leadership Training Program in 2008 and offers workshops, residential programs, and seminars as part of the BodySoul Community Workshop programs of the Marion Woodman Foundation. In October 2009, Caryn joined the Board of Directors for the Marion Woodman Foundation. After serving as a trustee for over a year, Caryn resigned as trustee in order to take on the position of Program Director for the Marion Woodman Foundation from January 1, 2010 through June 30, 2018. 

Following a similar path with Spiritual Direction Training, Caryn began her training with Namaste' of Portland in 2009.    At the end of the first year, and due to her work with the Marion Woodman Foundation, Spiritual Direction Training was put on hold until Fall 2016 when she returned to complete her training through the Franciscan Spiritual Center.  Caryn graduated from that program June 9, 2018 and is now a Certified Spiritual Director.  Caryn has found that Jungian work and Spiritual Direction work are complementary because it really is all soul work and part of the great Mystery. Caryn adheres to the motto: Wholeheartedly Supporting Soul.

In 2020, just after the CoVid epidemic struck the U.S., Caryn was babysitting her then youngest granddaughter only to discover a book she’d read twenty years earlier, Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr. Brian Weiss, on her daughter-in-law’s nightstand. When she asked her daughter-in-law about it, she was delighted to discover she was reading it for a book club. When Caryn got home that afternoon, she went straight to her own bookshelf, pulled her copy of the book and reread it and the other books by Dr. Weiss. After a search for workshops with Dr. Weiss, she discovered he was a regular presenter at Omega Institute in New York state but, unfortunately, everything was canceled and on hold due to the epidemic. Two years later, in November 2022, she was on a flight to Portugal when she received a notification that Dr. Weiss would be teaching at Omega in July 2023. After arriving and checking into her hotel room, she immediately called Omega and registered for two workshops with him.

At the end of the workshop, Dr. Weiss advised people who were interested in working with past life hypnotherapy to get training as certified hypnotherapists. When Caryn returned home, she was looking through some old files and found an old brochure from Tim Simmerman (now Simmerman-Sierra) from Santa Fe, New Mexico where she had met him in 1994. She wondered it he was was still around. To her great surprise, he and his wife, Angela Simmerman-Sierra, were co-founders of the Hypnotherapy Academy of America which had moved from Santa Fe to Albuquerque. And, due to CoVid, all of the training was now online. Caryn reviewed everything, called HAA, and registered for all of the training: 5 modules, 2 weeks each, for a total of 500 hours of training which she began in September 2023 and completed August 2024 adding Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist with a wide range of therapeutic ways to help clients from goal-setting on any number of issues, medical issues, spiritual and life issues which might be connected to past life experiences to her practice.

As a single mother of 3 grown sons, past and present mother-in-law to 3 daughters-in-law, Nana to 11 grandchildren (including bonuses), sister to 3 siblings, aunt to 3 nephews, and having co-cared for both parents (now deceased), Caryn knows the challenges that face individuals, couples, and families in this day and age.  Caryn strives to create a safe container allowing and encouraging transpersonal soul work and spiritual work while integrating personal insights and images arising from the unconscious. Following the guidance of her dreams and her own soul, Caryn continues her own personal exploration and work on the vertical path that has become the cornerstone for her work.