Dreamwork doesn’t start with the dream

Dreamwork doesn’t start with the dream; it actually begins with what’s keeping you up at night. My clients are intuitive, purpose-driven individuals who are experiencing a disruption in some area of their life. Maybe it’s a transition, personal or professional, or perhaps a feeling of stagnation. Some clients begin dreamwork because they’re experiencing a loss of meaning or direction. In Jungian Analysis, this is called The Shadow.

This Shadow is cast from something deep within you, an unrealized part that Jung names The Self, which is the organizing principle or archetype of the personality. In its unrealized state, The Self blocks and obscures the light of consciousness. However, embedded in The Shadow is a fragment of The Self in the form of an image. 

It is this image, an archetypal aspect of your personality created and embedded in your unconscious mind, that we engage with our dreamwork. Together, we will activate a series of dreams, each which will carry coded instructions for your personal development, using the image. The instructions are decoded in hour-long sessions as we work the dream together, slowly assimilating the message into your consciousness. The goal of the process is to develop this fragment of The Self into a fully realized part of your waking life, resulting in a broadening and deepening of the conscious personality. 

This is not traditional Jungian Analysis. It is neither clinical nor talk therapy. This is a methodology that I meticulously developed in my doctoral and professional research as an educator, both in the academic and corporate sectors, and have finalized in my offering to individuals. This work is not for everyone. But it is for those of us who are facing deep, personal conflict and who wish to confront and coerce that conflict into something transformational.