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
- Therapists can offer an uncommon and profound treatment service for their patients
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 Workshop
Acknowledging the benefits both patients and therapists experience from dream exploration, Smart Therapy™ decided to offer a workshop 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 Introduction to Dream Therapy Workshop Will Provide:
- 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
- Considerations of where to start on your journey with your own dream work as well as in offering it to patients
If this sounds of interest please add yourself to the workshop waitlist by contacting me!