Nicholas Toko, Jungian Analyst-in-training, London-based
ISAPZURICH, Stampfenbachstrasse 115
8006 Zurich
Switzerland ​
Hello. I am Nico. I am a Jungian Analyst-in-training at ISAPZURICH, Switzerland in private practice in London. ​
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What is a Jungian Analyst?
A Jungian analyst is a trained mental health professional who practices psychotherapy based on the theories of Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist. They help clients balance their conscious and unconscious minds to achieve greater self-awareness and psychological wholeness.
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​A Jungian Analyst works with people on a wide range of emotional issues which may be negatively affecting their mental health and well-being, personal or professional/work life.
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What can Jungian Therapy help with?
• Experiencing difficult emotions • Seeking purpose or meaning in life • Upsetting or traumatic experiences • Difficult life events • You have an interest in Jungian or Analytical Psychology for your own personal development
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I work with people experiencing difficult emotions associated with depression, anxiety, diagnosis of a personality disorder, issues around racial identity especially bi-racial or mixed race identity, refugee / migrant / first generation life experiences and difficulties, social adversity/vulnerable community experiences (violence, drugs and gang culture), difficult family dynamics, childhood neglect and abuse, self-limiting beliefs, limerence, ambivalence and somatic / body symptoms, and working with African, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean/Latin, Asian men to help navigate emotional issues unique to their particular lived experiences.
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I also work with people interested in their own personal growth or psychological development, coaching for business executives, treating work-related stress and burnout, personal analysis for MBA students, coaching for sports professionals and retired sports professionals seeking purpose and meaning post successful sports careers.
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Therapy has been proven effective in treating psychic disturbances, life crises as well as helping those seeking a deeper meaning in life. The focus of Jungian therapy lies in the process of individuation - fulfilling the uniqueness of one’s personality - so that one's inner and outer world come into harmony.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
What is Jungian Analysis?
It is difficult to overcome difficult emotions, to feel like life has no meaning or purpose, to feel helpless, to face hurdles and adversity in your ambitions, goals, aspirations and in relationships with others or to be unable to express how you are feeling. Talking to a therapist can bring relief, however, to find a way to access your own inner resources, to find your own inner strength can be a life changing experience free from distress or nagging thoughts, resilient, at peace with yourself and others.
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Jungian Analysis is a talk therapy which brings the unconscious mind into conscious awareness as part of the treatment of a person's emotional issues. Therapy offers you an opportunity to talk through worries, concerns, difficulties or needs with a trained professional in a confidential setting.
Therapy can help to alleviate emotional suffering and to help you better cope with life's ups and downs. It is directed toward an exploration of the #unconscious in order to alleviate emotional suffering which may be felt to be no longer tolerable because of its interference with living.
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The goal of Jungian therapy is a movement towards #wholeness by bringing together the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. This means coming to terms with the unconscious, it's specific structures and their dynamic relations to consciousness as these become available during the course of analysis.
Jungian Analysis is beneficial to all people regardless of their upbringing, nationality, culture, identity, and personal history. In fact, these factors play an important role in analysis.
It is an essential feature of Jungian analysis that in working towards a healthy mind, the unconscious is given a central voice, for example, through the analysis of a person's dreams, fantasies or imagination, personality type, and even drawing, painting, and sandplay'
dream analysis. dreams are recorded and brought to therapy for interpretation and to understand the meaning within the context from which they have arisen. ​
active imagination. ​​a process of 'dreaming with open eyes', which facilitates the engagement of the unconscious into conscious awareness.
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expressive therapy such as drawing, painting, sandplay. other creative ways to facilitate the engagement of the unconscious into the conscious mind, a non verbal, therapeutic process that makes use of an individual's drawings, paintings, a sandbox using figures, and sometimes water, to create images, pictures or scenes of worlds which reflect an individual’s inner thoughts, struggles, and concerns.
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personality or psychological type. to become aware of one's typical behaviour and in others, to better understand the dynamic nature of their personality, and to open oneself up to personal growth.
​What you can expect from Jungian Analysis?
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privacy
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confidentiality
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trust and integrity
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high standards of professionalism
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Jungian therapy requires both commitment and regularity. A minimum requirement is a weekly 50 minute session.
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each session is held in-person at the analyst's practice
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an in-depth discussion about what brings you to therapy
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cost of analysis is a fixed-fee payable after each session or on a monthly basis
How does Jungian Analysis help?
Relinquishing the expectation of rescue by the Other is one of the most difficult projects of our lives. Thus, central to any long term therapy is the progressive assumption of responsibility for oneself.
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'The goal of therapy is to help you go beyond intellectualisation and rationalisation and other resistive manoeuvres to the point where you can move into uncharted territories to seek and find the anguish and terror of total realisation and discover that you can survive. To know that life can be truly absurd and capricious; that one is not omnipotent; that without psychological defenses, there is pain at times which hurts more than words can describe.
And after the grief and the mourning, not only for the lost objects of one's fantasies, but for the fantasies and illusions themselves, to be able to live relatively without illusion.
To know Time as a friend as well as an enemy. To recognise that happiness is not a condition, but an ephemeral and precious experience, that if one lives without illusion one must impart meaning to one's life, that hope must replace expectations and demands; that activity must replace passivity; that realistic hope must be directed towards the expansion and growth of one's potentialities, which implies experiencing more richly both sorrow and joy; that the gates to that Eden of infancy are closed, barred by angels with fiery swords.
That mother is dead forever, and ever, and ever'.
​The 'mother' to whom Hahn refers in the last sentence is the mother complex, the charged energy within us which longs for security, succor and sanctuary.
(Fred Hahn in James Hollis' book, The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, p.83).
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We will work together on the problem or issue that you are facing. My approach aims to facilitates a meaningful, conscious, developmental relationship with oneself. We will also work creatively together with all aspects of your psychological and emotional patterns which aims to develop your awareness and bring change as you come to terms with your limits and potential.​
My professional accreditation
The practice of Jungian Analysis requires extensive training. To qualify as a Jungian Analyst, the therapist must complete a post-graduate training programme at an institute approved by an accrediting and regulatory organisation.
My work as a therapist is conducted under the auspices of training at the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich ISAPZURICH, Switzerland. This encompasses the requirement to conduct the analysis under the supervision of recognised ISAP supervisors.
ISAPZURICH is the non-profit, educational arm of the Association of Graduates in Analytical Psychology Zurich (AGAP), one of the founding member groups of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), the worldwide umbrella group of recognition for Jungian Analysts and Analytical Psychologists. AGAP is a Group Member of, and accredited by, the IAAP as a training group.​​​
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Contact Me
phone: 07447 955399 (Monday to Friday 8am-8pm)
e-mail: nicholas@nicholastoko.com​​​
address: 1 Birkenhead Street, London WC1H 8BA (King's Cross)​​​​
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