All of us dream, and we dream every night.  Few of us remember our dreams, except for the occasional nightmare, or bizarre content that is so filled with emotion that it awakens us, often with the residue of panic or fear.  We dismiss it as nonsense and attempt to return to sleep.  

Over a decade ago we moved into our current home.  Our first night in the home I awoke at 3:25 am to a terrible noise of clanging pipes.  I realized the outdoor sprinkler system had come on and the old pipes of the house made a loud noise as the pressure in the pipes was released by the automatic opening of the valves.  I thought to myself that there was no way I could sleep through this every night.  The sprinklers were on an every-other-night rotation, so two nights later the same thing happened.  I was so frustrated.  However, within two weeks my brain had relegated the clanging pipes to non-threatening "white noise."  My brain ignored it because it was irrelevant.  Years later the pipes still clang at 3:25 am, but I don't notice it.  As a culture we have done the same thing with dreams.  Because we deem them as unimportant or irrelevant, we relegate them to the background "white noise" of our sleeptime.  As a result, few of us remember them, even though they happen every night, multiple times a night.

What if we believed that our dreams are important?  What if we saw in them a pathway toward new insight, better decision making and vastly improved creative thinking?  Well that is exactly what research and history tells us.  Each night our brain works diligently to process the information and emotion of our day.  Experiences move from short-term memory to long-term memory.  Corresponding connections to other memories are made.  And the emotional weight of those experiences is exposed.  This process is essential to our survival, but it is also an invitation to move from surviving to abundantly thriving.  In dreams we are exposed to our internal therapist who knows the issues we face, the capacity we have to face them, and the path to the beautiful cycle of awareness - acceptance - integration.

In dream work we begin with raising your awareness of the importance of sleep and dreams.  We then use your own dreams as a guide toward health and wholeness.  I invite you into the process of discovering the therapist in you.