… emotion is the alchemical fire whose warmth brings everything into existence and whose heat burns all superfluities to ashes…. emotion is the moment when steel meets flint and a spark is struck forth, for emotion is the chief source of consciousness. There is no change from darkness to light or from inertia to movement without emotion. C. G. Jung, Collected Works 9i, para. 179

For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered. It is this real connection that is so feared by a patriarchal world. Audra Lorde, The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word love here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace-not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Angela (Anj) York Crane is a pre-licensed counselor accruing post graduation hours under supervision for licensure in Pennsylvania. She specializes in grief, chronic illness, and the impact of childhood physical, sexual, emotional and religious/spiritual trauma. She is also a candidate in training with Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts.

Her vocation for the last twenty years has been to create and hold space for others to deeply listen to their inherent insight and inner guide, to further their own unique journey toward connection with themselves, others and that thing, whatever we call it, that is bigger than us.

She was trained as a small group leader through Open Hearts Ministries, an organization serving those impacted by childhood  physical, sexual, emotional and spiritual/religious trauma. After training and leading groups, she became a trainer for OHM. 

She received her Spiritual Direction certification from the Haden Institute, in the Jungian Mystical Christian tradition. After graduation, she became a mentor for Haden. 

She received her 200 RYT certificate from Raja Yoga and Meditation Center, a not-for-profit studio in Philadelphia PA doing service yoga in their community.  After receiving her certification, she became a Hatha and Restorative Yoga  teacher at Raja Yoga and Meditation Center. 

She received trauma training through Lakeside Global Institute three year trauma certification program, and holds an MA from Moravian Theological Seminary in spiritually integrative Clinical Counseling.

Angela is a pre-licensed psychotherapist, working under the supervision of Dr. Mary Elizabeth Toler, ThD, LMFT, accruing post grad hours for licensing in Pennsylvania.