She serves as core faculty and Dissertation Policy Director at Pacifica Graduate Institute near Santa Barbara, California, where she has been teaching since 2003. Dr. Nelson’s own research interests focus on Jung’s concept of the shadow, gender, and power with a particular interest in how women discover and express a vibrant, embodied authority. Her books include Psyche’s Knife: Archetypal Explorations of Love and Power (Chiron, 2012), and The Art of Inquiry: A Depth Psychological Perspective, (third expanded edition, Spring Publications, 2017), coauthored with Joseph Coppin.