EXPLORE YOUR DREAMS—
SLEEPING AND WAKING
Jungian-Oriented Therapy
Welcome! I am a Jungian-oriented therapist offering a compassionate, client-centered approach. Together we will navigate your past and present challenges, considering their connections to develop insight for growth. My sessions offer a safe container in which to explore your unique strengths, sufferings, and stuck places.
I am a candidate in training to become a Jungian Analyst with many hours of counseling experience. This is a many-year, in-depth, internationally accredited diploma program which will deeply inform my work with you. The training institute, however, is not involved in, nor responsible for, my therapeutic work.
My focus is on helping you integrate all parts of yourself into purposeful, soul-filled living. I specialize in dreamwork and the imaginal through a lens of developmental psychotherapy, building bridges between your unconscious and conscious states to engage more awareness and agency in your life. Dream recall is welcome but not required!
My areas of focus include but are not limited to:
· Anxiety
· Depression
· Childhood trauma and incest
· Narcissistic abuse
· Parts and shadow work
· Dreamwork
· Somatic inquiry
· Life transitions and spiritual questions
· Sandplay therapy
In addition to my private practice in dreamwork and Jungian-oriented counseling, I have 750 internship hours in general psychotherapy through New Path Counseling in East Longmeadow, MA, 550 hours of training in clinical pastoral counseling and three years as a caseworker with adults with mental illness at CASCAP, Cambridge, MA. I am a Certified Dreamwork Professional (CDP, Institute for Dream Studies). My Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, Buddhist studies, foundations in shamanic training, Reiki Master certificate, and teaching of yoga and meditation, inform my holistic, embodied approach.
Details for Therapy Sessions:
50-minute sessions
In-person at Inner Source Wellness, Beverly, MA and privately in Rockport, MA
Virtual also available
Individual sessions: $150*
*Sliding scale available
Feel free to reach out via my Contact page for a free 20-minute informational session. I look forward to meeting you!
Dream Workshop and Dream Discovery Series
What I love perhaps most about offering dream workshops and series is the feeling of genuine community that develops naturally through dream exploration with each other. Participants share at their comfort level and offer and receive such helpful insights as they experience each other's dreams or dream elements, supporting one another in exploring the wisdom that arises from the dreamtime that can positively impact waking life!
Dream Workshop
This is a one evening, two-hour dreamwork session for everyone— both newcomers and those who have attended dream workshops and discovery series previously. Even folks who can’t currently remember their dreams usually have a dream that they remember from the past. And if not, they can work with a waking-life scenario. Some workshops have a theme, whether related to the lunar calendar, an astrological sign, a seasonal celebration, or a dream- or life-related topic.
The format begins with a time for introductions to each other, a brief explanation of dreamwork and the evening’s topic, and a centering meditation. The main body of the workshop involves two different activities that lead participants on an individual, private encounter with an aspect of their dream/dreams, and then a time for sharing and offering insights to each other’s findings based on a reliable, supportive dreamwork approach. The exercises include a guided visualization into the dream, and then a range of approaches including internal dialogues, creative engagements, and quick written responses. We conclude with identifying a takeaway— a healing message to reaffirm during the week, and/or an action step, as a way of bringing the wisdom of the dream into your waking life.
Dream Discovery Series
The series is a multi-week (two-hour, one evening/week) encounter with dreams. It mirrors the format of a workshop for the first half of the evening, up through the whole-group, dream encounter and discussion.
The second half of the evening will engage one individual (sometimes we have time for two) in an in-depth dream exploration similar to the one-on-one session described below. The beauty of in-depth dreamwork in a group setting is that you benefit from learning how different individuals experience the contents of your dream for themselves, bringing a wider array of insights for your illumination and consideration. Over the course of the series each person will experience this in-depth dream inquiry at least once.
The evening ends in the same manner as the workshop, with identifying a takeaway, healing message to reaffirm during the week, and/or an action step, as a way of bringing the wisdom of the dream into your waking life.
Often we will practice dream incubation between sessions, sometimes with a question we are all asking together of our dreams. I sometimes email resources or articles. This kind of “homework” is optional but beneficial.
Individual Dream Inquiry
In the one-hour dream inquiry session I hold your dreams with you and help you to deepen into your life journey by honoring your unique symbols, messengers, and maps from the dreamtime that guide you on your way.
As C. G. Jung dove into his own interior he wrote, “I had no answer to my question, only the inner certainty that I was on my way to discovering my own myth.” Your dreams are your own oracle and direct access to wisdom. I help you discern what are your own personal, active, living and true myths that speak to you with the wisdom of the night, with messages of where you are and where you are going.
In individual dreamwork, we will begin with a short centering meditation, and then enter into your dream. From there, I will lead you through a dreamwork process that suits the nature of your dream. We may explore specific aspects of the dream in detail, and/or look at the dream as a whole. We will discuss what aspects of the dream remind you of waking life and discover what healing messages the dream offers (even if it doesn’t seem like there are any!). I end with a brief gathering-in meditation to honor the dream and its message, and your engagement with both.
