Denise Grobbelaar is a Jungian Analyst, Psychotherapist, and Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Cape Town. She is a member of the teaching staff for the South African Association of Jungian Analysts (SAAJA) and a regular speaker at SAAJA’s Public Programme.
Denise offers courses on working with dreams, the Enneagram from a depth perspective, and various topics aligned with her professional interests. She is passionate about nature, embodied consciousness, mythology, the Enneagram, and working with images through dream analysis, active imagination, and visionary experiences. Her clinical focus includes exploring the multiplicity of self-states and dissociative defenses.
Her paper, “The White Lion as Symbol of the Archetype of the Self and the Cannibalization of the Self in Canned Hunting,” was published in the 2020 Spring Issue of the Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. In 2023, it was reprinted in the book The Spectre of the Other in Jungian Psychoanalysis: Political, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives.
Helping families Help: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Eating Disorder Recovery