Gillian M Brown

Gillian M Brown is a psychotherapist and nature-based counsellor and educator with a longstanding interest in the field of ecopsychology. She has a PhD from the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex where she researched the application of the Jungian concept of the symbol to meaningful encounters with other-than-human phenomena. Her paper ‘The tree that called my name: on the significance of encountering the constellated symbol in the natural, other-than-human, world’ was published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology’s special edition on our environmental and climate crisis and she is the author of ‘In Nature’s embrace: Emotional emplacement and the search for an ‘eco-symbolic’’, a chapter based on her conference presentation for the C. G. Jung Institute in Switzerland, in Routledge’s 2025 ‘Jungian and interdisciplinary interfaces between emotions individual and collective trauma’. An emeritus member and former Chair of the Cambridge Jungian Circle, Gillian remains active in the organisation and is a co-facilitator of the circle’s ‘Eco-Jung’ discussion group.