What We Do
We are psychologists and experts in unconscious dynamics who help our clients and partners realize their greatest potential by accessing untapped sources of knowledge and innovation.
Core Services
Mapping the Organizational Psyche
Understand the complexities of the organizational psyche as an integrated system.
One of the critical components for change is whole-system analysis. Just like an individual, organizations are living entities with diverse and complex ranges of psychological and relational dynamics. Organizations have complexes, defense mechanisms, archetypal patterns, wounds, shadow elements, and a developmental path. But much of this remains largely unconscious or unexamined as a component of change programs. The more conscious an organization attempts to become, the better they can handle adversity and reach important new stages in their evolution. Conscious organizations invest in understanding how to address sources of organizational pain and stop repeating ingrained patterns that limit individuals and teams. We bridge complex insights with deep organizational discoveries to help our clients more clearly understand the depths of their organizational psyche and its hidden dynamics.
Organizational & Team Analysis
Build and invest in teams with knowledge and in-depth analysis that goes well beyond the ordinary.
Most change efforts realize only short-term or limited success because most lack a depth approach that mirrors human and system complexities. In ordinary efforts, an analysis for an organization or team reaches only into the shallow or conscious layers. A true depth analysis aims to gather the hidden elements that remain mostly unconscious or unrecognized. These discoveries are among the most vital sources for change and growth, and without a greater effort to understand them many organizations simply falter and continually repeat old patterns.
Leadership & Executive Team Analysis
Conscious and engaged leaders are the key to operational and system health that produces greater success.
The catalysts of organizations are the teams that drive consciousness and awareness with an aptitude for realizing the needs and values of the integrated system and groups they serve. Conscious leaders and executive teams serve larger roles than being decision makers. They are the holders of the vision, values, and health of a community and all those it serves. We know we need more conscious leaders to face the barrage of today's challenges but how do leaders get more conscious? Beyond the shelves of business advice books and short-term trainings, leaders and executive teams need ways to understand their own unconscious dimensions and to harness greater tools and strategies for accessing awareness of their hidden group dynamics. We work with leaders and leadership teams to come to grips with their own strengths and, more importantly, to fully understand what larger unconscious elements are actually driving many choices, behaviors, and outcomes.
Executive and Team Coaching
Bring your team into greater complexity and relationship. Get aligned on new levels. Draw on hidden resources to bridge gaps.
With our support, leaders and teams gain new perspectives, additional focus, and new levels of consciousness that support success. Many teams have the capacities and resources to meet objectives, yet sometimes their greatest resources remain hidden or are hindered by unresolved or unconscious blocks. Success gets delayed or thwarted. Our teams work to uncover the critical insights to name and unlock specific growth arcs for individuals and teams.
Organizational Identity: Vision, Values, and Storytelling
Build a culture of meaning, values, and depth.
The hidden threads connecting all groups and systems are found in stories, identities, and collective values. They underpin every human interaction and endeavor, and understanding them on deep levels is essential for strategists, innovators, designers, marketers, and others. We support clients in understanding the most important aspects of powerful narratives, storytelling, and the roots of ancient mythology to help them activate far greater impact in their leadership initiatives, communications, and other outreach efforts.
Bottom line: getting more conscious can save an organization, a product, or a team. It can also be the catalyst for great discoveries and lasting success.
About PsychWorks
PsychWorks® offers a team of leading depth psychologists & organizational specialists
Edward Santana, Ph.D., Principal
Ed Santana, Ph.D. is an experienced leadership consultant, author, coach, and therapist. He supports leaders and teams on issues of connection, performance, vision, and growth by deepening understanding and alignment with the most important elements of the deeper psyche. He advises companies on how to expand knowledge and consciousness among teams by delving deeply into hidden psychological and interpersonal layers that create the foundations for powerful change. He holds credentials in psychology and executive leadership from Penn State, Pacifica, and Georgetown. Ed has worked for two presidential campaigns, two members of Congress, and is an Ogilvy PR alum; he provided clinical services at UCSF’s inpatient psychiatric hospital, two juvenile prisons, and had a private practice for many years. Corporate clients have included: McKinsey & Company, Pfizer, Lockheed Martin, Miller Brewing Company, GE Capital, United Airlines, Aetna, Southwest Airlines, and a range of startups (biotech, cryptocurrency, and media). He’s worked with senior leaders and CEOs around the world.
Dr. Oksana Yakushko
Dr. Oksana Yakushko is a licensed psychologist, psychoanalyst, consultant, and published scholar, based in Santa Barbara, CA. Her work has focused on relational dynamics, implicit complexities embedded in human experiences, deep creativity, meaning-making, and value of global cross-cultural perspectives. She has received numerous awards for her work, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a member of several international groups. In 2021, she received the Distinguished Leadership Award, Committee on Women in Psychology, from the American Psychological Association.
MeiMei Fox
MeiMei Fox is a two-time New York Times bestselling author, FORBES contributor, and executive coach. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University, where she earned a BA and MS in Psychology. She then spent two years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. in the San Francisco office. Fox has coauthored, edited and ghostwritten over a dozen non-fiction books, including several on business, psychology and spirituality. Since earning an MA in Counseling and Depth Psychology in 2005, she has served as a coach to successful entrepreneurs and high-level executives, helping them to align their careers with their life purpose.
Craig Chalquist, PhD
Craig Chalquist, PhD is a speaker, writer, scholar, and educator based in Southern California. A former psychotherapist, academic administrator, and graduate research advisor, he works where depth psychology, folklore, myth, nature, and storytelling converse. For his second PhD he is studying imagination and play as forms of deep knowing and practical visioning. He teaches, advises, and consults with individuals and groups toward understanding and working creatively with the foundational stories by which they navigate in life and work.
Elizabeth J. S. Bergstrom, PhD
Dr. Elizabeth J. S. Bergstrom is a therapist, writer, and researcher, based in Washington state. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Washington, and both an MA in Counseling Psychology and PhD in Depth Psychology with Emphasis in Psychotherapy from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Operating from a depth foundation and integrating strength-based approaches, she has extensive experience assisting others to navigate complex situations, cultivate capacities for leveraging their potential, and establish a strong sense of meaning within the context of their lives. Her research and writing interests have heavily focused on emergent dynamics, particularly as they pertain to narrative, and the archetypal manifestations of individual and collective phenomena.
Lynne Adrine
Lynne has more than 30 years of experience as a national broadcast journalist and senior producer with multiple television networks, including CNN, PBS Newshour, NBC News, CBS News and ABC News. She was the director of a graduate Washington reporting program for the Newhouse School at Syracuse University for the past 12 years. Throughout her career, Lynne has mentored, coached, and developed senior leaders across many fields, and holds certification in executive leadership coaching from Georgetown University. She also serves as a business communications coach.
Lynne serves on the board of directors of Journal-isms Inc., a nonprofit corporation supporting diversity issues in U.S. news media. Other advisory board positions include the Freedom Forum’s Power Shift Project and The Center for Ethical Leadership in the Media, organizations dedicated to civility, inclusion and equity in newsrooms and other work environments.
Greg Bodin, MS, LMFT
Greg Bodin is a licensed therapist, coach, and writer based in San Francisco. He bridges training as a therapist and coach with his years of management experience at small, mid-sized, and large organizations. He helps clients create rich and meaningful relationships by focusing on systems, both the external systems between people and the internal systems that influence our behaviors. He earned a BS in Psychology from the University of Louisiana and a MS in Counseling Psychology from Dominican University of California. He is also a trained IFS (Internal Family Systems) practitioner.
Allen Davids, M.S., Analyst/Researcher
Allen Davids, M.S., M.A., directs our operations and organizational resources. An experienced analyst and business strategist, he has also delivered and managed complex organizational change programs for global clients. He previously served as chief operations and IT director for an international center based in Southern California.
Sean Patrick McPeak, PhD
Sean is a licensed psychotherapist with nearly two decades of experience. He holds a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Social Work from the University of Utah and a PhD in Depth Psychology with an Emphasis in Psychotherapy from Pacifica Graduate Institute. With a diverse background as a ritualist, alchemist, poet, artist, and US Navy veteran, Dr. McPeak brings a rich tapestry of experiences to his work. Grounded in a Jungian and depth-oriented approach, he explores the psyche, nurturing a soulful life for individuals, groups, and organizations. With a profound respect for the human spirit, he works with individuals, groups, and organizations to resolve conflict and facilitate harmonious dynamics. Drawing on his training and initiation with the Q'ero peoples of Peru, he incorporates indigenous practices into his work. With over a decade of experience in marketing and branding, he offers a unique perspective, treating organizations as living, evolving entities. Driven by a commitment to personal growth and transformation, he guides clients towards self-awareness, meaning, and purpose.
We have also engaged some of the leading voices in the field of depth psychology to provide special counsel, including James Hollis, Michael Meade, Lionel Corbett, and others.
PsychWorks® Inc.
Los Angeles
