Dreams speak in a language that is rarely linear. Through images, emotions, sensations, characters, and symbols, they can bring us into contact with aspects of ourselves that may remain outside ordinary awareness.

My approach to dreamwork is primarily informed by Jungian and depth-oriented perspectives, with attention to symbols, archetypal themes, personal associations, and the movement toward greater psychological wholeness that Jung described as individuation. Rather than seeking a fixed interpretation, we stay curious about what a dream may be expressing and what meaning it holds for the dreamer.

Dreams can also be approached experientially. Informed by Embodied Imagination®, we may return to particular images, places, characters, emotions, or bodily sensations within a dream, allowing their significance to unfold through direct experience. At times, active imagination can open a conscious dialogue with an image or figure that has emerged from the unconscious.

Because my work is grounded in Somatic Experiencing® and informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), dreamwork can move naturally between psyche and body. A dream figure may resonate with a protective part; an image may evoke a bodily response; a recurring dream may bring attention to patterns of fear, longing, activation, or protection. These perspectives can inform one another as the work unfolds.

Dreams do not always need to be understood through words. Creative forms such as drawing, movement, imagery, and symbolic expression can help us stay close to an experience, giving it space to unfold without needing to explain it immediately. Even when an entire dream cannot be remembered, a single image, sensation, emotion, or fragment can offer a meaningful place to begin.

For those who feel drawn to going further, dreamwork can also include practices that deepen our relationship with the dreaming mind. This may begin with dream recall and journaling and, when a consistent connection with dreams has developed, extend to elements of Dream Yoga and lucid-dreaming practices as ways of exploring awareness within the dream state.

Ultimately, the intention is not to find the “correct” interpretation of a dream, but to develop a relationship with the inner world and listen more closely to what may be seeking expression or integration.