Manca Svara

Manca Švara is a Jungian analyst, psychotherapist, and founder of the Epiona Institute. She works in private practice in Koper–Capodistria, Slovenia, where she offers Jungian psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, integrating transpersonal and art-based approaches. Alongside her clinical work, she is engaged in research projects on forced migration, border psychology, intergenerational and totalitarian trauma. Manca completed her training as a Jungian analyst in 2025 with the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), through the Slovenian Association for Analytical Psychology (SZAP) in Ljubljana. In 2022, she earned a diploma in counseling/coaching with the IPAL method, focusing on intergenerational trauma, and completed psychotherapeutic propedeutics at Sigmund Freud University, Ljubljana (2019). Her academic background includes a Master of Arts from the University of Ljubljana (2012). She has also trained in psychedelic psychotherapy at the Rabbit Hole Institute (2022) and is currently training in Jungian Sandplay therapy with ISST-accredited analysts, a method particularly effective with children and adolescents. She specializes in early relational trauma, complex trauma (C-PTSD), the mother wound, high sensitivity, addictions, and narcissistic injury. Her funded research projects explore the impact of intergenerational trauma, forced migrations, and totalitarian regimes on individual and collective psyche - especially in borderland regions marked by division and loss of identity. Among the institute’s initiatives is “My Story from Silence” (2022–2023), which collected silenced memories on the border between Slovenia and Italy in the region of Istria, Karst, and Trieste where inhabitants displaced after the Second World War. Building on this, the European project RE4 Healing: Crossborder Remembrance, Reconnection, Restoring and Resilience (2025–2027), funded by EU CERV-2024-CITIZENS-REM-HOLOCAUST and supported by the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia, was launched with new partners. Through creative and therapeutic workshops, the project addresses the psychological transgenerational consequences of migration and border divisions. The mission of Manca through Epiona is to give forgotten stories a voice, to weave them into a collective process of healing, and to create spaces of encounter, support. Since October 2024, she has been appointed as a training analyst at Sigmund Freud University in Ljubljana, she is also a training analyst for IAAP routers.