Offering online psychotherapy in Asheville and Chicago.
Butterfly Medicine Counseling helps midlife women experiencing anxiety and depression, identity changes, fears of aging and losing attractiveness, hormonal perimenopause/menopause symptoms and emotional struggles surrounding family, career and relationship concerns.
Are you ready to connect to a new source of creative inner wisdom? Would you like to explore what you want and where to go with your life?
Let me help you reimagine crisis as a mid-life “chrysalis.”
Counseling that serves Cosmic Connection
Meet Amy Allemana, MSW, LCSW
See my listing on the Jung Institute of Chicago’s list of Professional Affiliate Members.
I opened Butterfly Medicine Counseling after encountering my own mid-life journey without supportive resources. I found relief in the healing arts of astrology, dreams and tarot and was inspired to enroll in a professional Jungian studies program.
I help mid-life women navigate their bodily experience of perimenopause/menopause with a lens that incorporates mythology, symbols, metaphor and archetypes to re-imagine your importance as an aging women. My area of interest is the unconscious and “turning a friendly face towards it” (as quoted by a fave podcast, This Jungian Life.)
My depth approach will help you to connect to a new source of inner wisdom and creativity. I’ve witnessed clients become interested and excited about their inner life resources, making the challenges of daily life more meaningful. As you learn to build relationships with the multitudes within yourself, you will participate in the world more purposefully and make deep, necessary and lasting changes in your life.
When we directly experience the wisdom of the unconscious, we experience creative renewal. As with alchemy, psychotherapy creates a sealed container necessary for personal transformation. I will approach your struggles with curiosity and compassion, allying with you to integrate the various parts of your personality for psychic individuation.
AGING AS A SPIRITUAL PATH
Women experience greater human potential by connecting archetypically to our Menopausal journeys. Yet so many women miss out, trying to be what they were remain lost, not knowing where to go. The over-culture is sadly lacking positive, generative models of older women, thus disempowering women during the richest, fullest and most developmentally significant time of life. Yet if we become conscious of our personal myth making power, we can recognize mythic patterns and change the ones that aren’t working so we live the myth, it doesn’t live us.
By connecting to archetypes in your life and re-imagining your path forward, you’ll be changed, transformed and accompanied throughout the rest of your life by new a energy. You will break through the denial of age and move toward deeper self-acceptance; review your life to heal old traumas and uncover your gifts; get past inner obstacles by uncovering unconscious shadow issues; learn to leave behind past roles and identities and shift from work in the outer world to inner work in the soul. Through working with me, you’ll discover practices that consciously engage the mythic and archetypal in your everyday life by using:
mythology
astrology
tarot
parts work
dreamwork
shadow work
creative prayer
“Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.”
C.G. Jung
”It is a bewildering thing in human life that the thing that causes the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.”
C.G. Jung
Astrology, like the collective unconscious with which psychology is concerned, consists of symbolic configurations: The “planets” are the gods, symbols of the powers of the unconscious.”
C.G. Jung
Services & Pricing
(offering online services)
Psychotherapy
Online only, this is designated for individuals to explore their unconscious patterns using the natal birth chart to identify archetypal patterns seeking emotional expression and conscious processing. Sessions are weekly or bi-weekly. Insurance accepted BCBS, Aetna and UBH.
53 mins | $150 | Get started
EMDR
Online only, this time will be spent engaging in “sets” to target memories needing to be processed for emotional wholeness. Insurance accepted BCBS, Aetna and UBH.
53 mins | $150 | Get started
Psychological Astrology Consultations
Online or in person, this is for therapists working with clients who would like to deepen their understanding of case conceptualization using psychological astrology.
50 mins | $100 | Get started
Check your insurance.
We take most United Behavioral Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO and Aetna plans .