ABOUT ME
Ana Paula / Punita Miranda is a Brazilian psychotherapist with a BA in clinical psychology from UniCeub, a Research MA from the University of Amsterdam and diploma candidate in Jungian analysis at GAP (The Guild of Analytical Psychologists), London.
Her main therapeutic approach is based on depth psychology of Carl Gustav Jung, the value given to symbols and images that emerge through dreams, imagination and in everyday life.
She was a regular participant in the Circle of Analytical Psychology’s Red Book and Black Books study groups in London and in The Black Books study group with Walter Boechat in Brazil.
While maintaining a private practice in London, she also collaborated with the charity LAWA (Latin American Women’s Aid), where she offered psychotherapy in Portuguese and English to women who had suffered domestic violence.
She also completed the Leadership Training Programme personally led by the late Jungian analyst Marion Woodman (1928-2018), who was one of the first analysts to introduce body work in the context of traditional Jungian analysis. She was part of the first BodySoul Development Group, an organisation that was created to continue the legacy of Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms work in Europe. She also developed and managed the first BodySoulEurope website, a site that offered programmes and connects women interested in BodySoul work. The site is now managed by the Holding Team in Ireland.
In addition, she teaches The Red Book module for the ‘Jungian Studies’ group in Lisbon.
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Ana Paula / Punita Miranda works in private practice with individual adults offering both time-limited and open-ended psychotherapy, either face-to-face or via Zoom.
Her areas of professional experience and expertise include: depression, anxiety, psychosomatic and stress-related symptoms, relationship issues, self-esteem and confidence, loss of meaning and spiritual crisis, cross-cultural conflicts and personal potential. She is a member of the UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy) and CRP (Regional Council for Psychology).
The aim of Jungian therapy is to facilitate the individual to connect with their own potential that is often hidden or blocked by challenges encountered in childhood, trauma or illness. The confidential space offered by therapy supports the release of this potential and a more appropriate reorientation towards your personal path.
TRAJECTORY
‘The way of life writhes like the serpent from right to left and from left to right…’
Jung, The Red Book, 247.
1997
Graduates in clinical psychology and completes her specialisation in body psycotherapy with the Reichian psychiatrist John Pierrakos and his team (Core Energetics) at UNIPAZ, Brasilia. Begins her clinical private practice
1998
Begins training in Deep Memory Process with Jungian analyst Roger Woolger. Practices DMP for 5 years and works as an assistant in Brazil, the US, Europe and the UK
2002
Starts Marion Woodman’s intensive training in Canada. From this moment on, dreams begin to guide her personal and professional paths
2003
Moves to Oxford to pursue her Jungian studies
2008
Completes the Marion Woodman Foundation Leadership Training Programme
Starts private practice in Oxford and in London
2009
Undertakes psychiatric internships, one in an NHS public hospital and the other in Capio Nightingale private hospital in London. Moves to Amsterdam
Enrolls at the University of Amsterdam’s Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy to study Jung and his Red Book in the context of Western esotericism
Starts private practice in Amsterdam
Joins BodySoul Europe
2012 - 2017
Public and academic lectures in the Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, Portugal and Brazil
Starts teaching ‘Jungian Studies’ in Portugal
2018
Returns to London to complete Jungian training
Coordinator of the psychotherapy department at LAWA
Starts private practice in London
2020 - 2023
Gives a series of public lectures in Brazil and the UK via Zoom during the pandemic
2024 - 2025
Launches The Jungian Way website
Completes Jungian Training
TRAJECTORY
‘The way of life writhes like the serpent from right to left and from left to right…’
Jung, The Red Book, 247.
Graduates in clinical psychology and completes her specialisation in body psycotherapy with the Reichian psychiatrist John Pierrakos and his team (Core Energetics) at UNIPAZ, Brasilia
Begins her clinical private practice
1997
Begins training in Deep Memory Process with Jungian analyst Roger Woolger. Practices DMP for 5 years and works as an assistant in Brazil, the US, Europe and the UK
1998
Starts Marion Woodman’s intensive training in Canada. From this moment on, dreams begin to guide her personal and professional paths
2002
Moves to Oxford to pursue her Jungian studies
2003
Completes the Marion Woodman Foundation Leadership Training Programme
Starts private practice in Oxford and in London
2008
2009 - 2010
Undertakes psychiatric internships, one in an NHS public hospital and the other in Capio Nightingale private hospital in London. Moves to Amsterdam
Enrolls at the University of Amsterdam’s Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy to study Jung and his Red Book in the context of Western esotericism
Starts private practice in Amsterdam
Joins BodySoul Europe
2012 - 2017
Public and academic lectures in the Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, Portugal and Brazil
Starts teaching ‘Jungian Studies’ in Portugal
2018
Returns to London to complete Jungian training
Coordinator of the psychotherapy department at LAWA
Starts private practice in London
2020 - 2023
Gives a series of public lectures in Brazil and the UK via Zoom during the pandemic
Launches The Jungian Way website
2024 - 2026
Moves back to Brazil
Completes Jungian Training
CARL JUNG
The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was an investigator of unconscious processes, and his lifetime task became that of bringing them to consciousness; and the deeper he went the broader his base became. His career spanned 65 years, his Collected Works comprise over 18 volumes, plus his abundant correspondence, the lively private seminars he gave both in German and English, not to mention several new materials published by the Philemon Series which are becoming available every year.
The Red & Black Books
Written in poetic and prophetic language, and embellished with paintings, The Red Book represents Jung’s most personal attempt to bring together verbal and non-verbal expressions of the unconscious, connecting the rational and non-rational aspects of his psyche.
Crafted out of The Black Books, The Red Book was at the centre of Jung’s life and work enhancing everything he published after 1914. It was the outbreak of the First World War which allowed him to grasp the significance of the visions he was recording in his notebooks. Jung carefully edited and constantly reworked his Red Book over a period of sixteen years. […]
The Jungian way
This logo uses the ‘path metaphor’ to illustrate the way of individuation in pictorial form. Images rising from the unconscious symbolically reveal not only our current vision of the world and of ourselves potentially exposing internal problems, but also contain germs of the future, suggesting the paths we might take or that which we may become.
THEORY & PRACTICE
PUBLICATIONS
Click here for the complete list of both English and Portuguese articles
LECTURES
See the lectures, seminars, and courses that Ana Paula / Punita Miranda has given over the years. If you are interested in any of them, please contact us.
