Kate Burns
Houston Jungian Analyst
The inner space from which dreams emerge dwells at the center of one’s personality and drifts into view through self-expression. Are you compelled to discover the mystery of the unknown Self? Do you long to engage with the unique voice calling and inviting you to hear the silence speak and see the unseen appear? Are you looking for a Houston Jungian Analyst? Please join me in The Center for Dreams for virtual as well as traditional office visits where we will explore your suffering, your struggles, your ideas, your insights, and your dreams in a safe space where all people and all ideas enjoy an attitude of acceptance and curiosity.
Kate Burns, LPC, Jungian Analyst, offers traditional and on-line virtual appointments in Houston, TX & Colorado Springs, CO. Click here to schedule an appointment with Kate or call (713) 527-7297.
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung
The Center for Dreams first appeared to me many years ago as a dream: a place removed from the urgencies and anxieties of daily life, a place for reflection where body relaxes and the mind enters “a kind of hush.” The dream was one among many – curious, even entertaining, and provoked thoughts of a setting found through wandering and seeking the wise, unheard, unknown core of oneself. Such a setting may provide a portal through which one may enter a theatre of spontaneous images, and also may lead to a decision to enter into an intentional relationship with the inner voice that guides one’s ideas, initiatives, search for knowledge, and curious wanderings which possess the power to shape the endeavors perpetually revealing meaning that bonds each unique moment of one’s lifetime.
Kate Burns on the Sacred Speaks
Initiation, Liberation, & The Journey. A conversation with Kate Burns
This conversation favors the irrational over the rational. Kate Burns, LPC, Houston Jungian Analyst has made it her mission, both in her professional life and personal life to study the pathways on which people travel through their lives. She states, “The paths that people are called to are often socially unacceptable.” She is referencing how often each of us has to sacrifice either a part of ourselves for the security of the outer world, or the security of the outer world so that one can “live on the edge” and discover who they are and what really matters to that individual. When Kate was 4 years old, a poisonous snake bit her, a story that had not entered into her awareness until she was much older and in analysis herself. Once she recalled the event she began to have dreams that included snake motifs and she began to study rites of passage, initiation, and rituals that people had been writing about throughout human history. We discuss the seven aspects she identifies and articulates through her book. Kate has made it her mission to help people place their struggles and conflicts into meaningful narratives. And, how is one to know the direction that the narrative is providing?
Paths to Transformation
From Initiation to Liberation
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
“This book is both healing wisdom and a guidepost. Kate Burns lucidly shows us how numinous events invade our settled and crafted worlds and challenge us to enter into deep dialogue with the psyche, beckoning us to let go of the old and worn out and go forward into adventure, renewed life, and liberation from social conformity. She speaks with a sage voice that is at once profound and humble. So illuminating are her insights, and so alive her discussions, that I found it difficult to put the book down.” ― C. Michael Smith, PhD, author of Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue: Retrieving the Soul/Retrieving the Sacred
“Kate Burns brilliantly illumines the difficult passages which occur in the lives of all of us. Sharing personal stories, case studies, and the insights of depth psychology and anthropology, she defines the various stages of transformation and reveals how one can participate more knowingly in the process of personal growth.” ― James Hollis, PhD, Jungian analyst and author of Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives and What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
