Individual Dream work

I see individuals for dream work in various capacities. Feel into what is a fit for you or your clients.

  • As adjunct to normal psychotherapy. (see “Therapist Corner” on the right for more information on how you or your client might benefit from dream work).

  • Some clients come to me simply for dream work, and no other form of guiding. These people are often self-guidied on their journey, or simply curious about what waits for them in the dream time.

  • Most people come to me for dream work as part of a comprehensive guiding experience, where dream work is just one of many modalities for guiding or companioning a person on a deep dive of healing and wholing, with soul initiation as their main target.

Zoom sessions V. face-to-face

Zoom: I work with people all over the country, and some international, as well as those who are not yet comfortable meeting face-to-face due to covid-19. While face-to-face sessions are best, there is minimal depreciation of value of doing dream work by Zoom.

Face-to-face: Working face to face is more intimate. Having someone with you helps supports the feeling that you are not alone in the dream, therefore supporting your nervous system through co-regulation. It also allows me to track your body’s experience and expression through movements, gestures, posture, etc, that are often hidden from a computer camera in zoom sessions.

setting For face-to-face

I see people both in a home office, and outside either on the land or on our heated covered porch.

Working a dream in a natural setting with ponds, forest, glades, and river front, is profoundly supportive to the dream work process. Time on the land after dream work is also immensely helpful for integration.

 

sessions Lengths

First Session: 2-hours

Subsequent sessions: 60, 90, 120, ? minutes.

Dream Incubation (Abaton) sessions: See “Other Offerings” in the navigation bar.



Rates

$90-150/hr. Those that can pay more, help support those that can’t.



Ages

9-18yo: Dream work only, no depth guiding*, with parental consent, and potentially with therapist support.

18-21yo: Dream work only, no depth guiding* (a few exceptions made), with or without therapist support.

21-?: Dream work only, dream work with depth guiding*, and/or dream work as adjunct to therapy.



*Depth work is what I offer as a more integrated level of support for those longing for deeper healing that supports soul initiation. For those interested in depth work, please see “Guiding/Companioning” in the navigation bar.

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Therapist Corner

Dream work as Adjunct to therapy

There is so much to say about what is possible here. Often, one dream can save years of therapy in terms of unveiling the deep structure of what is alive in a client, what might be the next right scaffolded steps, and rapidly provides material for creating a treatment plan and resourcing.

I recommend that any therapists who are interested in using my dream work services for their clients, first consider having a session for themselves as a way of knowing what is possible, how I show up in the work, and to feel if this is the right thing for your clients.

Benefits of my style of dream work to support the therapeutic process:

  • Attachment styles commonly show up.

  • The nature or root of addiction and compulsive behavior often reveal themselves through dreams, and come with antidotal resourcing.

  • You get snapshots into the nervous system through the lens of poly-vagal theory, and access to a ventral vagal state that so many find difficult to access.

  • You might find important clues into how complexes surface at different developmental stages.

  • Target memories reveal themselves in the context of their associated trauma and complexes, even those beyond recall.

  • Resources or valuable ego states needed for growing resilience and healing always come with the dream material.

  • You will encounter parts or ego states, especially those fused with self, their strategies, how they work together, and which gatekeepers need to be addressed for the next stages of work.

  • For therapists using EMDR as a modality, you will find what emerges in this style of dream work invaluable.

  • Because the dream often brings material stored in the body, and/or material stored in un-integrated neural networks, the target material is active with affect, and is ripe for adaptation and integration, especially since the exact right adaptable resource is provided within the dream.

Many of my clients who see primary therapists, bring the material from their dream work sessions into EMDR processes for deeper integration. This is especially true for resourcing.

Dream work tends to be far gentler than working with actual traumatic memories. When I am informed of the nature and severity of the trauma, and the inner and outer resources of a client prior to sessions, doing dream work with even highly traumatized clients and very charged material is rarely re-traumatizing.