Core Faculty
Core Faculty at the IJPA are senior clinicians, scholars, and practitioners who shape the intellectual and experiential backbone of our training programs. They bring decades of expertise across Jungian analysis, psychedelic-assisted therapy, depth psychology, anthropology, and clinical practice. Their role is to guide students through the psychological, symbolic, and ethical dimensions of transformative work, ensuring a rigorous, grounded, and integrative learning environment.
Names are presented in alphabetical order, without hierarchical ranking.
Dr. Adrián Navigante
Dr. Adrián Navigante is an Italo-Argentine poet, philosopher, and depth psychologist whose work bridges Jungian psychology, anthropology, and the study of non-ordinary states. He studied classical philology in Argentina and England and earned a PhD in philosophy in Germany. His research focuses on transcultural approaches to traditional healing systems, religious experience, and altered states of consciousness, drawing on long-term fieldwork in South Asia, West Africa, and South America. Navigante’s theoretical interests lie at the intersection of post-ontological anthropology, depth psychology, and ethnopsychiatry. He has taught depth psychology for over fifteen years at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, taught philosophy at several German universities, and founded Interstices: Center for Transversal Thinking in 2024.
Dr. Ana Luísa Teixeira de Menezes
Dr. Ana Luísa Teixeira de Menezes is a psychologist, Jungian analyst certified by IJRS and AJB, and professor of psychology and graduate programs in psychology and education at UNISC, Brazil. She holds a PhD in Education from UFRGS and completed postdoctoral studies at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia. She is deputy leader of the CNPq research group PEABIRU: Amerindian Education and Interculturality and coordinates the project Indigenous Mythologies and Biocentric Education. Her work integrates analytical psychology, indigenous mythologies, community psychology, education, and spirituality. She is a Biodanza teacher and author of The Girl and the Jaguar, Letters to Aphrodite, and several co-authored volumes on Amerindian education and community psychology.
Dr. Angeliki Yiassemides
Dr. Angeliki Yiassemides is a Jungian analyst (IAAP) and a psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist (MIND Foundation, Berlin). Trained in both the classical lineage of analytical psychology and contemporary psychedelic science, her work bridges symbolic, mythopoetic understanding with preparation and integration of altered states of consciousness. She holds an MA and an MPhil in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University, and a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies (Analytical Psychology) from the University of Essex, and is a published Jungian scholar. Angeliki maintains a private practice and lectures internationally. She currently lives in Cyprus.
Dr. Anne Flynn
Dr. Anne Flynn is a Jungian analyst with the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York. She holds a Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies from Naropa University including specialized MAPS training, A co-author of a chapter on the Integration of Jungian and Psychedelic Training and Practice in the Chiron publication Psychedelics and Individuation, Anne also possesses MFAs in Art Therapy and Fine Arts/Painting, alongside a JD from Fordham University School of Law. She is currently based in Sarasota, Florida.
Dr. Arash Golnam
Dr. Arash Golnam, IAAP, is a Jungian psychoanalyst trained at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich. A citizen of Iran and Switzerland, he is now based in Lima, Peru. His personal and professional path weaves together Persian poetry, Jungian depth psychology, and plant medicine, bridging traditions and worldviews across continents and centuries. Drawing on lived experience with Shipibo healers in the Peruvian Amazon, Andean curanderos, and Mazatec healers in Huautla de Jiménez, he explores the synergy that can emerge when analytical psychology enters dialogue with ancestral medicine lineages. Before dedicating himself fully to psychoanalysis, he worked as a university lecturer, scientist, consultant, and engineer. He holds a Ph.D. in Systems Science from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and an M.S. in System Dynamics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. Deborah Bryon
Dr. Deborah Bryon has undergraduate degrees from UCLA in Psychology and Metropolitan State College of Denver in Art. She received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Denver, before becoming a diplomate Jungian analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA) and a member of the International Association of Analytic Psychology (IAAP). Deborah has been studying and working with Peruvian paqos (shamans) for over twenty years, bringing groups to Peru to learn from the Andean paqos. She is the author of four books and multiple articles bringing the practice of psychoanalysis and Andean shamanism together. She is a frequent lecturer in the international psychoanalytic analytic community. Deborah has a virtual private practice and lives in Madeira, Portugal.
Dr. Eduardo Drivon
Dr. Eduardo Drivon is a former tenured professor with more than twenty years of experience in teaching, interdisciplinary program design, and public-facing intellectual work. His background spans ethics, modern thought, and the practical formation of judgment in educational and institutional settings. He is the author of published work and has received national grants, fellowships, and recognition for teaching excellence. Beyond the university, he has designed and facilitated invitation-only, small-group programs bringing together scholars and professionals from law, education, and public life. He brings this experience to cultivating the conditions, rhythms, and shared practices that allow careful, responsible, and genuinely generative dialogue to take root within this newly forming community.
Felicia Matto-Shepard
Felicia Matto-Shepard, M.S., is a Certified Jungian Analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. A lifelong student of psycho-spiritual development, Felicia works at the threshold where inner experience transforms into image and expression. She has been shaped by decades of embodiment practice, art-making, dreamwork and psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. Felicia facilitates psychedelic integration work with individuals and groups utilizing art making, ritual and movement. Felicia holds a Certificate in Psychedelic Therapies and Research from California Institute of Integral Studies. Her work is informed by indigenous medicine practitioners as well as contemporary Western consciousness-exploring psychedelic practitioners. Felicia is a Training Analyst and teaches internationally on depth psychotherapy, active imagination and creativity. Finally, she spent 18 years working with the dying at Hospice of Petaluma.
Fiann Paul
Fiann Paul is the world’s most record-breaking explorer, whose favorite frontier is consciousness. He is a Jungian psychoanalyst, leadership consultant, and multi-disciplinary artist. As founder of the IJPA, he brings a rare synthesis of depth psychology, visionary practice, leadership, and lived initiation into the unknown. His background includes what he regards as three forms of experiential education: completing the Ocean Explorers Grand Slam (rowing all five oceans), living on five continents, and twelve years of personal and clinical work with plant medicines and psychedelic-assisted therapies, alongside four academic degrees.
Jerome Braun
Jerome Braun is a licensed California Marriage and Family Therapist and English- and Spanish-speaking Jungian psychoanalyst in Northern California. Since 2016, he has focused on psychedelic-assisted treatments and pre- & post-psychedelic integration. Jerome trained at the C. G. Jung Institute Kusnacht, Zurich, Switzerland, taught at the Zurich Jung institute for two years, as well as having given presentations in the U.S. and internationally. In 2019, he completed his training in Psychedelic Research & Therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Jerome has contributed chapters to edited books on psychedelics and Jungian psychology. Jerome is deeply involved with Shipibo-Konibo Indigenous healers in the Peruvian Amazon. He blends Jungian psychology with Indigenous healing practices.
Dr. José María Fábregas
Dr. José María Fábregas is a psychiatrist and founder of the ICEERS-associated Clinica CITA in Spain, where he has pioneered the integration of traditional plant medicines with modern psychiatry. With decades of clinical experience in addiction treatment and psychedelic-assisted therapy, he has been one of Europe’s most visible advocates for responsible, evidence-based use of ayahuasca and ibogaine. His work has influenced both clinical practice and public policy, bridging indigenous knowledge with medical science. As a teacher, clinician, and researcher, his vision is to expand access to safe, ethical psychedelic treatments while cultivating a culture of respect, rigor, and healing.
Kylea Taylor
Kylea Taylor, M.S., LMFT is a licensed therapist who has been thinking and writing about ethics for over three decades. She founded and teaches InnerEthics®, a self-reflective, self-compassionate, approach to relational ethics, a model she is teaching now in many psychedelic practitioner trainings. In 1984 Kylea started studying with Stanislav Grof, M.D. and Christina Grof, pioneers in training practitioners of psychedelic and extra-ordinary states of consciousness. Kylea worked with Dr. Grof as a Senior Trainer in the Grof Transpersonal Training throughout the 1990s. She is the author of Peer Consultation Groups & Ethical Awareness Tools for Psychedelic Practitioners (2024), The Ethics of Caring: Finding Right Relationship with Clients (2017), a book of poetry, and several books about Holotropic Breathwork®.
Dr. Nancy Swift Furlotti
Dr. Nancy Swift Furlotti is a senior Jungian analyst based in Aspen, Colorado. She is a past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, where she trained, and a founding member and former president of the Philemon Foundation, which published C.G. Jung’s Red Book. She serves on the board of Pacifica Graduate Institute and is a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Dr. Furlotti established Jungian endowments in neuroscience at UCLA and Oxford University (Linacre College). She lectures internationally on dreams, symbolism, mythology, particularly Mesoamerican-trauma, creativity, and psychedelics. Her books include The Dream and Its Amplification, Eternal Echoes, and The Splendor of the Maya.
Prof. Romano Màdera
Prof. Romano Màdera is a philosopher and Jungian psychoanalyst. He founded the method of Biographical Analysis of Philosophical Orientation (ABOF), along with its training institute and professional society, SABOF. He served as Full Professor of Moral Philosophy and Philosophical Practices at the University of Milan-Bicocca until 2024, having previously taught at the University of Calabria and Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. A member of AIPA, IAAP, and the editorial board of the Rivista di Psicologia Analitica, Màdera is also a founding voice in Italy’s movement for philosophical practice and a co-founder of Philo, School of Philosophical Practices. His work integrates depth psychology, symbolic imagination, and secular spirituality into a rigorous, transformative approach to personal and cultural meaning.
Dr. Saliha Afridi
Dr. Saliha Afridi is a clinical psychologist, Jungian Diploma Candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich, and a certified Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy practitioner, who has worked clinically over the past 18 years. She is the Founder and Chairwoman of The LightHouse Arabia, one of the first and now one of the largest mental health centers in the United Arab Emirates. Under her leadership, the center pioneered and introduced International Mental Health First Aid to the country, training tens of thousands of individuals in essential early-intervention skills. Dr. Afridi has facilitated numerous psychedelic journeys and guided clients through the integration process. She is also a sought-after speaker and a respected media voice on mental health, wellbeing, and psychological transformation.
Dr. Scott Hill
Dr. Scott Hill authored Confrontation with the Unconscious: Jungian Depth Psychology and Psychedelic Experience (2013), which Jungian analyst Stephen Martin, President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation, described as “a comprehensive volume, the first significant reconsideration of psychedelics in light of Jungian psychology since the 1950s [and] a sourcebook for those interested in such a natural interface.” Scott holds degrees in psychology and educational psychology (University of Minnesota) and Philosophy & Religion, Ph.D. (California Institute of Integral Studies). He has spoken internationally on Jungian insights into psychedelic experience and psychotherapy, including for the Jung Institute of San Francisco and the Moscow Association of Analytical Psychology. He has contributed to anthologies, including Psychedelics and Therapy: The Healing Potential of Expanded States.
Dr. Sharon Martin
Dr. Sharon Martin is a Jungian psychoanalyst trained at the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Emory University in the Psychosocial Nurse Practitioner program, with advanced certifications as a Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist. After starting a private practice in Atlanta, she moved to Charleston, SC, where she co-founded the Charleston Jung Society and worked in Veteran Mental Health Services. Introduced to psychedelic therapy through colleagues involved in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, she later trained extensively in the Mazatec plant medicine tradition in Huautla de Jiménez, Mexico. Dr. Martin is a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich and the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts. She lives and practices in Asheville, NC.
Simon Yugler
Simon Yugler is an internationally experienced psychedelic therapist, educator, and author of the book, Psychedelics and the Soul: A Mythic Guide to Psychedelic Healing, Depth Psychology, and Cultural Repair. With a master’s in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, he has taught for some of the leading psychedelic facilitator training programs in the United States, including CIIS, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Naropa University. A speaker at the MAPS 2025 Psychedelic Science conference, Simon has also lectured and taught internationally. With a background in anthropology and experiential education, Simon’s early travels brought him into contact with Indigenous traditions throughout the world. With over two decades of experience working with psychedelic medicines, Simon is committed to helping his clients and students navigate the liminal wilds of the soul.
Dr. Walter Boechat
Dr. Walter Boechat, MD, is a Jungian analyst trained at the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich and a founding member of the Jungian Association of Brazil (AJB-IAAP). He served as AJB representative to the IAAP Executive Committee and as IAAP Co-Regional Organizer for Latin America. He holds a PhD from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and is a member of the Bioethics and Applied Ethics Center at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Boechat is part of the editorial team responsible for the Brazilian editions of Jung’s Red Book and Black Books. He has published widely, including The Red Book of C.G. Jung: A Journey to Unknown Depths and work on ayahuasca and Amerindian perspectivism. He teaches and supervises internationally.
