CELESTE RYAN, PHD

Faculty

Education

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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Dr. Celeste Ryan is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Jungian analyst practicing in South Los Angeles, serving a diverse community. Before retiring from 26 years of county service in 2018, she worked for the Department of Mental Health in their Juvenile Justice Mental Health program, and before that as the clinical director of the county’s substance treatment center in Acton. She also has prior experience working in the private sector in substance treatment. Her prior career of 18 1/2 years in law enforcement with the County of Los Angeles speaks to the diversity of her experience and growth towards public service and afforded her a deepened understanding of how people get where they are. Her interests and training encompass trauma, complex trauma, and cultural/intergenerational complexes.

​Dr. Ryan’s work is an interweaving of depth psychology with a somatic approach, as she is also a Somatic Experiencing practitioner. Her perspective is that the unconscious can emerge along an inseparable continuum, through image as well as through the body, as well as through the collective. When she is not working in her private practice she enjoys hiking with her husband and their dog in the foothills of Los Angeles and native plant gardening.