Depth psychology consultation for senior leaders
Where strategy ends,
depth psychology
begins.
Private work with James Fox for founders, chief executives and senior leaders who recognise a recurring pattern in their decisions, relationships or exercise of authority.
A few sentences about your situation are enough to begin.
James Fox · Founder, Unitive Mind
Different perspective
Outer authority does not always resolve the inner pattern.
You can change the team, the strategy or the situation — and still find yourself meeting something familiar.
Unitive Mind offers a place to examine what may be shaping that experience: the assumptions, emotional investments and unconscious patterns beneath your decisions.
The work begins with your real circumstances.
Recognising the question
Different circumstances.
A familiar response.
The question may begin in an ordinary moment of leadership.
01
A conflict that keeps returning.
The people change, but the same tension emerges around the board table. What might you be bringing to the encounter?
02
Responsibility you cannot release.
You have a capable team, yet find yourself taking decisions back. What does remaining indispensable mean to you?
03
A decision you keep postponing.
The facts are available, but you remain caught. What might be at stake beyond the decision itself?
These are starting points for inquiry. Your own circumstances give the work its direction.
The framework behind the work™
The Psychology of Self-Leadership™
Jungian depth psychology, social neuroscience and contemplative practice provide the foundation for examining how you lead, relate and respond.
You bring a current decision, relationship or difficulty. Together, we examine your response and what may be shaping it, returning the reflection to the circumstances you face.
Working together
Two forms of private work.
A focused examination of a current question, or sustained work over time.
If you are unsure which is right, begin with a private enquiry.
The Diagnostic
01 / Four weeks
A four-week depth assessment of one defined leadership question, concluding in a written brief.
- Biographical inquiry and depth interview
- Patterns, projections and defences
- Board and executive dynamics
- A written diagnostic brief
The Inner Authority™
02 / Six months · 16 sessions
A sustained private engagement for leaders whose responsibilities require continuity and depth.
- Sixteen private sessions
- Examination in real time
- Board and organisational dynamics
- Integration into practice
Admission begins with a 50-minute private consultation at $500, credited in full if The Inner Authority™ engagement proceeds.
Prefer a self-directed beginning? The Threshold™ offers eight modules for reflection at your own pace.
The experience behind the practice
James Fox
I bring three decades of running a business to this work. I understand the responsibility of making decisions, living with uncertainty and carrying the consequences.
My formation in Jungian depth psychology, including five years of personal analysis with James Hollis, PhD, brings another dimension: attention to the person carrying that responsibility.
Years running a business
Years in organisational coaching
Years of analysis with James Hollis
Years of contemplative practice
An independent perspective
“James Fox brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the work of improving our capacity to communicate, manage, and grow, whether at work or in person. Fox's process helps clarify and develop the personal before we can bring it to the world.”
From a client
“The work didn't give me a strategy. It gave me back something I hadn't realised I'd lost — an honest relationship with my own authority. That has changed everything.”
From the writings
When success stops working.
Success can change your circumstances.
It can also bring deeper questions into view.
Before you enquire
A clear frame for private work.
Practical answers before you take the next step.
Who is this work for?
Founders, chief executives and senior leaders who recognise recurring patterns in their judgement, relationships or experience of authority, and are willing to examine their own part in them.
Is this executive coaching or therapy?
Unitive Mind offers depth psychology consultation in the Jungian tradition. It attends to the unconscious patterns beneath leadership behaviour. The focus is the person exercising authority: how unconscious patterns may shape judgement, relationships and decisions. It is a developmental engagement, not a clinical treatment service.
What does a first consultation involve?
A 50-minute private consultation to explore what brings you to the work and whether a sustained engagement is appropriate. The fee is $500, credited in full towards The Inner Authority™ if an engagement is subsequently agreed.
What does The Diagnostic involve?
A four-week engagement focused on one defined leadership question, concluding in a written diagnostic brief. The fee is $5,000. It stands on its own and is not a prerequisite for The Inner Authority™.
What is the ongoing commitment?
The Inner Authority™ is a six-month private engagement, with sixteen sessions and an eight-module developmental arc. The fee is $15,000, or four payments of $3,750. Entry is by application, followed by a 50-minute private consultation.
What should I include in an enquiry?
Two or three sentences about the situation, decision or recurring dynamic you are facing are enough. No extensive preparation is required. You do not need to send sensitive personal or organisational material to begin.
You do not need to choose an engagement before making contact.
A private conversation
Bring the question
you are carrying.
A few sentences about your situation are enough to begin. James reviews Private Enquiry submissions personally to determine whether there is a relevant next step.
James personally answers general enquiries. Private Enquiry submissions are reviewed for fit, with a response where there is a relevant next step.