Jaffa V. Frank holds a PhD in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and an MA in Counseling with an emphasis in Grief, Loss, and Trauma Therapy from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, NM. She has additional training in Jungian sand tray, shamanic practices, wilderness rites of passage, and dream work methods. As a licensed mental health professional, Jaffa has worked as a hospice bereavement counselor and currently serves as part-time faculty at Southwestern College teaching courses in the psychology of altruism, archetypes, and the evolution of consciousness.
Jaffa's latest book, Eyes of the Gorgon: Endometriosis, Mythic Embodiment, and Freedom transmutes her four decades of suffering from endometriosis by engaging the mythic imagination to craft a narrative of hope and empowerment. Jaffa authored and presented “Objective Relatedness, Radical Empathy, and Letting Go: An exploration of mother grief through the myth of Ereshkigal and Innana” at the 2016 conference of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology and is published in Between: Literary Review (PGI 2012, 2014). |