Joel Kroeker, RCC-ACS, MMT, is a Swiss-trained Jungian psychoanalyst, clinical supervisor, and author with a private practice based in Victoria, BC. Drawing on over 25 years of diverse experience Joel devotes part of his practice to training and supervising international practitioners in his original modality of Archetypal Music Psychotherapy across North and South America, China and parts of Europe. He currently serves as a journal reviews editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology and divides his time outside of clinical hours between parenting, musicking, teaching, and writing. His book, Jungian Music Psychotherapy: When Psyche Sings, is a finalist for the IAJS (International Association for Jungian Studies) book award.
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is hidden, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. … When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, page 4