Depth psychology is a broad term for approaches that attend to unconscious processes, symbolic meanings and influences not immediately available in a person’s conscious account.
It doesn’t mean that every simple experience needs an elaborate hidden explanation.
Sometimes "I know why" is only the part you can easily say.
You explain why you avoid a conversation. The explanation makes sense. A dream, an image or a bodily hesitation may still reveal a feeling that wasn’t included in it.
The deeper question needn’t contradict what you already know. It may add something: longing beneath irritation, grief beneath competence, enjoyment you have learned to treat as embarrassing.
The Hidden Hero’s Journey uses story, imagery and guided encounters to explore less obvious influences in its own authored format. It isn’t a substitute for clinical work or a claim that one symbolic interpretation explains your life.
Analytical psychology introduces Jung’s tradition. Imaginal practice shows how an image can become an experience to explore rather than a code to crack.
The International Association for Analytical Psychology’s Carl Gustav Jung introduces one important tradition within this wider field. It offers a grounded starting point for terms that can otherwise become rather mysterious rather quickly.