Do you desire to deepen your healing approach?
Dream Therapy™ can offer many benefits to both you and your clients:
- Patients experience the session to be of higher quality
- Insights around one’s identity, needs, and wants from life become clearer for the dreamer
- Symbolic thinking improves for both patient and therapist
- Therapists can offer a unique therapy experience as they learn to offer Dream Therapy in their own style & be authentically different as a helping professional
History of Dream Therapy
Dream analysis and dream exploration is a transformational healing approach that dates back to 4000BC – and more recently was brought into prominence by Sigmund Freud with his publication: “The Interpretation of Dreams” in 1900.
Despite the history of this type of meaningful work, it has often been overlooked in contemporary times by the healing professions. Carl Jung, a follower of Freud very much believed in the importance of dreams including that it could help a person individuate and become fully themselves.
Why Offer Dream Therapy?
The patient sharing their dream with the therapist has been shown to help:
- Increase their self-awareness
- Realize their ability to make self-initiated decisions
- Diminish feelings of helplessness regarding their current life situation
12 Studies suggest that patients experience sessions where dream work occurs to be of higher quality than non-dream therapy sessions.
Dream Research
Research also points to that working with a patient’s dreams can help with:
- Difficult childhood experiences
- Relational issues
- Depression/Anxiety
- Dissociation
- Conflict and Defensiveness
- Family issues
- Trauma
- Increasing self-insight
Dream Therapy Training/Mentorship
Training Consultations
Acknowledging the benefits both patients and therapists experience from dream exploration, Smart Therapy™ decided to offer a training and mentorship program on Dream Therapy in order to help other therapists start discovering how working with dreams can help their clients and practices.
For over a decade Rebecca Steele, Registered Social Worker has offered Depth Therapy approaches, including Dream Therapy and Dream Analysis in her private practice. Rebecca’s training and experience in offering Depth Therapy approaches, as well as several years of receiving regular dream analysis consultations from psychotherapist-author Thomas Moore allowed her to really get a handle on what offering meaningful dream work can look like.
The Mentorship Training in Dream Therapy Can Include:
- An Understanding of What Dream Therapy is and what it can look like in a therapy session
- Knowledge of the benefits for patient and therapist of Dream Therapy
- A Comprehensive breakdown of my 4-step framework approach to working with dreams in client sessions, including ethical considerations when applying the approach
- Case consultations- where you bring your clients' dreams to session, to provide a space where you can really dig into their dream work as a way to apply dream analysis principles in your work
- Guidance on how to apply and integrate different types of therapy models to dream work (eg. Jungian, Strength-Based, CBT, EFT, etc.), depending on your therapeutic proclivities
- Education in archetypcal psychology topics including mythology, archetypal patterns, and symbol as it relates to dream work
- Learnings and examples about the philosophy of Dream as image/art
- Parallel process: an exploration of your own dreams as part of the learning process
- Training in the areas of working with nightmares, recurring dreams, lucid dreaming, and improving dream recall
If this sounds of interest please add yourself to the training waitlist by contacting me!