Lynette Walker has maintained a private practice as a Jungian psychotherapist in Langley, British Columbia since 1983. She is registered with the B.C. Association of Clinical Counsellors and licensed as a Mental Health Counsellor in State of Washington. She is now in the teacher training program with the Vancouver School of the Alexander Technique.

Her writing is psychological in nature. Lynette has, since early childhood, written volumes of dreams and personal reflections. Her work on breast cancer and the creative process was featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Ideas series in 1993. She expresses her psychological perspective through non-fiction essays, poetry, and her first published book, Mothering, Breast Cancer and Selfhood, A Psychological Portrait (ISBN 1-55369-484-8 Trafford Publishing, Victoria, B.C. 2002).

As a revealing story, Mothering, Breast Cancer and Selfhood explores the life of one woman diagnosed and treated for breast cancer. Particular attention is given to the compulsive, habitual mothering response to everyone but herself. Through misuse of herself and through chronic self-neglect, she opens herself to invasive disease, breast cancer being the perfect metaphor. No understanding of a mothering response can be achieved without examining honestly a woman’s inner life and her relationship to her own mother or lack thereof. Readers agree this is a courageous piece of writing that definitely grabs their attention and won’t set them free until they are done. Contact: info@ramshead.ca

Lynette has since edited and produced a book of sixty-two stunning symbolic paintings and related commentary by her mother, Jungian analyst, Katherine Sanford entitled The Serpent and the Cross (ISBN 0-9734120-2-X Coral Publishing, Surrey, B.C. 2006)
This beautiful book in color has been sought for inclusion in the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS Collection) through the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Link: Info@aras.org

Lynette is currently writing essays on the principles of the Alexander Technique and a paper comparing and contrasting the lives and works of F.M. Alexander and C.G. Jung, contemporary thinkers of the early 20th Century.