Dreamworkers

Would you like to find a dream group or dreamworkers close to where you live? Check out the lists below for  dreamworkers near you.

Online Dreamworkers The Dream Tree’s discussion groups are comprised of dreamworkers, dream explorers, and others interested in dreams and dreaming in specific areas of North America.

Offline Dreamworkers can be found throughout the United States and Canada. Would you like to be added to this list? If so, drop a line to The Dream Tree.

California: San Francisco Bay Area

  • Keelin would like to join a group on lucid dreaming.
  • Jill Gregory is the director of the Novato Dream Library and Archives, and enjoys hosting groups occasionally.
  • Brian Wells
  • Hochima Denise Treppa, MFCC, offers dream groups, focusing on interpersonal as well as interpsychic relevancies, and works from the belief that dreams hold meanings on multiple levels. Uses Gestalt, Senoi, artistic and Archetypal approaches to dreamwork, and, as a licensed MFCC, offers an array of therapeutic tools, including sandtray, EMDR, and hypnotherapy. P.O. Box 7116, Cotati, CA 94931-7116.
  • Joan Robinson, LCSW, MFT, leads dreamwork groups in Marin and San Francisco. She is currently leading one at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Rafael and one at St. James’ Episcopal Church in San Francisco. Other groups meet at her office in San Anselmo. She is a licensed psychotherapist and spiritual director and uses artwork and sandtray to work with dreams.
  • Bob Trowbridge specializes in non-interpretive dreamwork and looking at waking life as a dream. He is the author of “The Hidden Meaning of Illness: Disease as a Symbol & Metaphor,” which looks at illnesses as dream messages.
  • Fern LeBurkien is a long-time member of BADG, best known for her dream masks. She has demonstrated mask-making at the BADG Play Day. For the mask recipe, see her web site (www.geocities.com/soho/hall/8328/fern.html). She has also been known to write poems.
  • Robert Wolf
  • Susan St. Thomas, M.A. works with the healing dimensions of dreamwork, art, classes and workshops. Her dream inspired art can be seen at Abundance Galleria — click on “abundance” then on original artwork, limited editions and quality prints.
  • Kristena West M.A. Director of KRISTENA WEST STUDIOS and INNER-LIGHT ARTS online art gallery offers transformational arts, right-livelihood consulting, lucid and shamanic dream training. Dream Groups, Private Sessions; Online & Phone Dream consultation and study in applied dreamwork with focus on prophetic, healing and shamanic dreaming using many forms of Creative Arts. Currently she is running Dream Groups: Art & Soul in Santa Barbara. Kristena was taught dreaming by her father who studied Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy, a western mystery tradition. She trained at the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and with indigenous shamans for over ten years. She holds a Masters in Transformative Arts and Consciousness. She is a member of ASD, the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. Please see website at: http://www.kristenawest.com and her dream inspired art at http://www.innerlightarts.com She curated the exhibition Deities, Dialogues & Dreams Extraordinary Conversations with Ordinary People in 2002 in Berkeley, see Virtual Gallery at http://www.kristenawest.com/gallery/deity.html.
  • Sage Healing Wolf is a shaman, writer and student of Spirit who teaches Dreamjourney Circles, Love Magic, Sacred Silliness, KidSpirit Camp and shamanism classes in the East Bay. She also leads shamanic vision quests in the Sierras. Coauthor of the tantric sensual game “Passion Play!,” published poet and journalist, Sage is currently collecting and writing a book on dreamjourneys. Her articles on shamanic dreaming have been published in Psychic Reader, Conscious Life, and Electric Dreams. Sage also offers one-on-one and couples shamanic healing sessions, specializing in love, prosperity, health, dreams, and Spirit.
  • Dolores Nurss specializes in spiritual healing and deriving advice from dreams, shared dream-reentry and assistance in harvesting creative/artistic/literacy fruits from dreams.
  • Rahima Warren, MA, MFT, offers SoulPlay workshops and women’s groups for exploring dreams and life issues through creative wrirting, expressive arts and sandplay, and offers dreamwork trainings for dream group leaders & therapists, CEUs available for MFTs & LCSW . See her website at www.Soulplay.com.
  • Kate Czekala been working with dreams for over 3 years; studies at the Delaney and Flowers Dream Center, and has also studied dreamwork and Focusing with E. Gendlin, PhD., author of the psychological process of Focusing.She is an artist, with a degree in Creative Arts. She does private 1-1/2 hour sessions, and charge $50 per session, at her downtown San Mateo home.
  • Candace Kerber is a creativity counselor, based in Santa Clara, who offers dreamgroups and other classes aimed at connecting with one’s intuitive, playful side. Visit the website at http://www.freesprt.com/index.html

California: Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay

  • Gina Pearlin leads dream groups and individual sessions in Santa Cruz. She is the instructor for the Dream Studies Program and the Hypnotherapy Program at Twin Lakes College of the Healing Arts.
  • Kathleen Sullivan is the host of “Dreams, Another Way of Knowing”, a weekly radio show on FM 90.3 in Pacific Grove, and conducts dream groups in Santa Cruz, Pacific Grove, and Carmel.

California: Southern/Central Coast

  • Joan Concannon, Dreamwork in Therapy and Active Imagination . Her community outreach workshops have also included Understanding Your Dreams, Keeping Balanced During Stressful Times , Women in Transition: The Second Half of Life . She is a member of the C. G. Jung Study Center of Southern California Analyst Program, which prepares professionals in advanced therapeutic practice. Joan is the Vice-President of Programs for the SFV Chapter of California Association of Marriage Family Therapists.
  • Sandy Ginsberg, M.S., M.F.T., is a psychotherapist (License #MFC32670) in Encino who frequently utilizes dreamwork in her sessions with clients. She has studied “DreamTending” with Stephen Aizenstat, PhD at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a member of, and has attended iASD Conferences [Berkeley (96), Hawaii (98), Santa Cruz (99), Boston (01), Berkeley (03)]. At the Santa Cruz conference, she presented a workshop entitled: “Investigating the ‘I AM’…a Gestalt Workshop on Group Dreamwork”. In 2001, she presented “Owning The Other…Gestalt Dreamwork with Nightmare Imagery.” In Berkeley she sat on the Journaling Panel and provided a workshop entitled, “After Dreaming, Explore That Aspect Which Has Eluded You.” Her articles, “Honoring the Dream” and “Even Nightmares Can Bring Gifts” appear in “DREAMING,” published by the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Visit her website at http://www.ginsberg-psychotherapist.com
  • Rita Hildebrandt offers dreamtime exploration groups in San Clemente. We explore dreams through a large variety of techniques including gestalt, dream theater, collage, living dream images, sandplay and many others. I find every technique allows the unfoldment of a certain aspect of the dream, reflecting its wonderful multidimensionality. I also offer “Inner Landscapes” a reading with collage images which reflects the person’s current psychospiritual inner landscape. I access people’s inner space through their names and then channel the collage pictures. The reading of these images (in person or by mail) is like translating a dream. Each image contains a multitude of dimensions and levels. People receive a portfolio of collage images and my translation of those images. Like dream images, they can also translate those same collage images and receive their own reading. I am an Artist, Intuitional Consultant and Teacher. I have training in Psychology, the Creative Expressive Arts and Voice Dialogue.

Canada: Vancouver

  • Bonnelle Lewis Strickling, MA, PhD, RCC is a Jungian psychotherapist who does individual work with dreams as well as groups and professional development seminars on dream work for therapists.

Colorado

  • Ron Masa, Ph.D. has specialized in dreamwork for over 15 years. He offers 2 dream groups a week (and limited private sessions) in Boulder, CO. His style is similar to Jeremy Taylor’s. Dr. Masa also teaches the I Ching (or InnerNet) and psychic development classes.

District of Columbia

  • Bernard Welt has been teaching an interdisciplinary humanities-based course on Dreaming to stuudents at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington for 16 years. As Professor of Academic Studies at the Corcoran, he developed the humanities survey course at the college and oversees liberal arts curriculum; he also teaches courses in cinema studies. His essays on film, television and popular culture, which emphasize psychological and archaic themes, are collected in Mythomania: Fantasies, Fables, and Sheer Lies in Contemporary American Popular Art.

Florida

  • Gail Ellison, PhD, leads a weekly dreamgroup in Gainesville FL. She also coordinates workshops on such topics as Creative Writing and Dreamwork, Dream Incubation, Women’s Dreams in Midlife, and Dreamwork for Caregivers.

Massachusetts

  • Cody Sisson is a certified Dream Specialist, Spiritual Counselor and an Interfaith Minister, practicing in western Massachusetts. He also is the founder and director of The New England Dreamwork Institute, providing a multi-level certificate-training program for dreamworkers and dreamwork leaders. Cody has been studying spirituality and dreamwork for many years with leaders in field of dreamwork such as Jeremy Taylor, Stanley Krippner, Robert Bosnak and others. He originally comes from a corporate
    background and has listened to his dreams to root him back into the earth and his spirituality where he was destined to be. His work is his passion as it is with his life and family. Cody has a private practice of individual dream and spiritual counseling, has formed numerous dreamgroups, and continues to facilitate many ongoing dreamgroups in a 100-mile radius of his home. He also forms and facilitates dreamgroups on the internet, via a voice interactive program called, PalTalk. This has enabled him to bring the experience of the dreamgroup process to people from a wide geographic area. Cody is
    also a member of the Association for the Study of Dreams and follows the

    ASD ethical guidelines for dreamwork and dream leader training. He is also an interfaith minister, performing worship services to many different churches around New England. His path to the ministry was formed out of learning to use dreamwork as a regular form of spiritual practice. His ministry enables him to share his experiences on his journey in an effort to teach different ways in which we can try to feed our souls. You may contact Cody in any of the following ways: Cody Sisson, 330 Old Wendell Road,
    Northfield, MA 01360 .More detailed information about the various services and programs that Cody provides can be viewed and printed out from his website at http://www.dragon-heart.com

New York

  • Newton Meyers teaches a course at Pratt Manhattan entitled Visualization for Artists, Writers & Creative Thinkers. He also does dream interpretation for clients all over and teaches them how to do it themselves. This includes a textbook & dream journal. He is also the inventor of a unique Visualization technique which is really a voluntary dream on demand.
  • Laurie Greenberg, Ph.D. is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in New York City. She specializes in dreamwork, primarily the Gestalt (creative/experiential) approach, as well as dream re-entry and a variety of other creative techniques. She also specializes in Gestalt Therapy, Visionary Journeys (guided imagery) and past-life regression. Articles on each of these topics can be found on her website: www.soulcenteredtherapy.com.
  • Cynthia Richmond is a journalist, board-certified behavioral therapist, author, educator and speaker. Her column “In Your Dreams” has been a regular fixture in the Los Angeles Times since 1977. She hosted a daily NBC cable program, State of Mind for two years and has appeared as a guest expret on Entertainment Tonight, The View, Leeza, Donny and Marie, and many other TV shows. Through dream analysis, therapy, workshops, classes, and TV appearances, Cynthia has helped many people create the lives they want. Her office is in Manhattan, and her contact email is . Visit her website at www.dreampower.net.

North Carolina

  • Robert Gongloff leads dream groups and workshops in Asheville and Black Mountain, NC.

Oregon

  • Christine Boyer does dreamwork with groups and individuals in Bend, Oregon as well as teaching classes and workshops. Website: www.dreamenterprise.com.
  • Peggy Coats leads dream groups in the northwest Oregon coast area. She is the director of The Dream Tree, and a former boardmember of the Association for the Study of Dreams.

Pennsylvania

  • Cynthia Pearson, an author who has been chairing the panels on dream journal-keeping at ASD conferences, hosts the Dream Workshop on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month in Pittsburgh at 4836 Ellsworth Avenue (the Friends Meeting House in Oakland.) Registration is not required; there is a $6 per session fee to pay expenses. For directions, log onto her website, dreamjournalist.com

Tennessee

Washington

  • Diana DeLaney-Finch, Ph.D., is a Jungian Psychologist with an On-line Interactive Counseling website address at http://www.counselingweb.com. Dr. DeLaney-Finch uses dream interpretation as a pathway toward personality integration and wholeness. As Dr. DeLaney states…..”Dreams are the key to our self-worth….our individuality…”
  • Bob Lavigne hosts a dream group in Spokane Washington. He is a ceritified counselor, has studied with Jeremy Taylor and the group uses the “IF it were my dream format”.

2 Responses to “Dreamworkers”

  1. admin says:
    December 24, 2009 at 9:19 am

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