ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the archetype of the “wounded healer” in the context of Jungian Coaching clarifies the contract between the coach and the coachee. It helps the readers to understand the complexity of the therapist–client relationship manifested in their contract and how it is dealt with among the Jungians. The idea of a safe place restricts the Jungian coach to keep the sessions in a protected location mostly because the tools Jungian Coaching offers require a holding environment. The Jungian coach can offer the coachee tools to experience, practice, and apply but, nevertheless, he cannot do the job instead of the coachee. The chapter also presents Groesbeck’s “Wounded Healer Paradigm” in a simplistic form, which may help the coach accept his limitations, which paradoxically work for the benefit of the coachee. Active listening and empathic approach, combined by limited ability to act or patronize the coachee, position the coach, inevitably, in the unconscious domain of the wounded healer.
