Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, work is an integration of Jungian depth technique and Buddhist psychology from a psychodynamic perspective. He is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. He serves as the Director of Training for the Center’s Buddhist Contemplative Care Programs. He is a ACPE Chaplain Supervisory Resident. Koshin is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. He is a co-founder of the Buddhist Psychotherapy Collective. He is the Co-Director of Contemplative Care Services for the Department of Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center. He is the co-author of the chapter "Rituals and Resilience," in the book, Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience, Routledge, 2009.

His expertise as a psychotherapist is in the following areas:

• Understanding of unconscious material in daily life
• Facing ones reality to find that each of us are agents in our own lives
• Individuation and separation from merger
• Exploring unconscious material through dream work and Sandplay