Dream Therapy™ Training & Mentorship for Therapists

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

If you’re a professional interested in learning how to offer dream work in your own practice, you’re in the right place. If you’re looking to receive dream analysis as a client, you can find more information on that service here.

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

Multiple studies suggest that therapy sessions involving dream work are experienced by patients as higher quality than sessions without dream work.

Dream Research

Research also suggests 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

Recognizing the benefits that both clients and therapists experience through dream exploration, Smart Therapy™ offers a training and mentorship program in Dream Therapy. This consultation-based program is designed to support therapists who are interested in learning how to thoughtfully and ethically integrate dream work into their clinical practice.

For over a decade, Rebecca Steele, Registered Social Worker, has practiced Depth Therapy approaches in her private practice, including Dream Therapy and Dream Analysis. Her clinical work is informed by extensive training in depth-therapy, as well as several years of receiving regular dream analysis consultations with depth psychotherapist and author Thomas Moore.

This combination of professional training, long-term clinical experience, and personal immersion in dream work has shaped a grounded, respectful, and meaningful approach to working with dreams—one that honours both the symbolic depth of the material and the lived experience of the client.

The Mentorship Training in Dream Therapy Includes:

A clear understanding of what Dream Therapy is and what it can look like within a therapy session
An overview of the benefits of Dream Therapy for both client and therapist
A comprehensive breakdown of my 4-step framework for working with dreams in clinical sessions, including ethical considerations
Case consultations, where you bring your clients’ dreams to session to explore them in depth and apply dream analysis principles to your work
Guidance on how to integrate different therapeutic models into dream work (e.g., Jungian, Strengths-Based, CBT, EFT), depending on your clinical orientation
Education in archetypal psychology, including mythology, archetypal patterns, and symbolic meaning as they relate to dream work
Learning and examples related to the philosophy of dreams as image and art
Exploration of parallel process, including engagement with your own dreams as part of the learning experience
Training in working with nightmares, recurring dreams, lucid dreaming, and supporting improved dream recall