Somatic Experiencing® & Dreamwork

DREAMWORK

Changing our lives by paying attention to our dreams.

Dreams are a bundle of invitations to go deeper, evolve, connect, and feed the imagination.

Dreams have the ability to reflect clearly and honestly what is happening in the dreamer’s life, titrating it with imagery, making it more palpable and manageable with room for metaphors, expansion, relationship, and growth.

Dreamwork is an opportunity to explore the inner world through the images, feelings, sensations, and stories that emerge in our dreams.

In this work, we are not particualrly seeking resolution or answers. Together, we suspend the need to ‘figure it out’ and enter into the relationship with the dream as a meaningful experience that changes us in ways we cannot always understand.

One thing is promised: change happens.

Dreams & the body

Dreams have information the body remembers and the mind forgets.

Through your dreams you can:

  • Get to the root of your troubles and increase your choice points to do something different.
  • Nourish your authenticity and inner knowing.
  • Reveal underlying patterns, themes, and emotions moving beneath your lived experience.
  • Bridge what is conscious and unconscious, supporting coherence and wholeness.
  • Deepen the awareness of your uncensored emotions and body’s experience.
  • Gain access to fragmented memories or moments so they can be integrated and transformed.
  • Engage with imagination and creativity as a resource for life-giving change.
  • Explore the mythopoetic as an agent for healing – offering connection, direction and support.
  • Bring dream imagery into your daily life as a place of resource and support.

 Through its metaphorical language, dreamwork supports access to the periphery of our stories while knowing their very center. This allows for the gradual, spacious and persistent unfolding that deep healing requires while offering an innate resourcefulness throughout the process.

What is a session like?

These sessions are guided by you, your dreams, and me containing and supporting your process in the best way.

01 — Beginning with what works

We start by checking in about how you are doing today and what is working well-enough. We give time to getting connected to what is resourceful, no matter how big or small.

02 — Bringing the dream into the room

We spend time with you sharing your dream, in the present tense as if it is happening now. I invite you to speak the dream aloud and slowly, leaving plenty of time for pauses.

03 — Bringing awareness to the body

Together, we track how the images and experiences within the dream contribute to the experience within the body. We notice sensations, gestures, or feelings that arise as you engage with the dream. We follow them with curiosity.

04 — Integrating your experience

We give time and space to come out of the dream, back into the room and reflect on anything that stands out to you after the exploration. If bridges are important to your day world, we build them together – considering how the dream relates to your life.

“Working with Julie has been such a valuable experience. I had no idea that dreamwork could be such a window into my day to day patterns and conditioning. Julie so expertly and compassionately guides me to the gold. I understand now how much dreams have to offer us, and how much medicine is available in them. Julie is such a skilled practitioner and it is so clear that she loves this work, making her sessions all the more potent. I so highly recommend working with her!”

- Emilia, Massage Therapist
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"Time and time again, Julie ventured into the depths of my wounds with me compassionately, at the right time, knowing how deep to go, how to relate to what came up through the body, helping me find a deeper embodied senses of resolution and peace than I had experienced in a very long time. I’m not exaggerating when I say that every session led me through an arc, and by the end of each session, I felt reassured in my body and a greater sense of empowerment in handling the inevitable stressors of life. I approached my life with more grit and ease, took more risks, knew more clearly when to set my personal boundaries, and identified which relationships were supporting my health and happiness."

- Emily, Somatic Practitioner
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“Working with Julie in the realm of dream work was a profoundly enriching experience. Julie brings a grounded wisdom and a deep, intuitive presence that created a sacred space for exploration and transformation. Her kindness, attentive listening, and heartfelt guidance allowed me to connect more deeply with the messages of my dreams. Julie has a rare gift for tuning into the subtle, symbolic language of the soul and I’m deeply grateful for the clarity and healing that emerged throughout sessions. I wholeheartedly recommend her!”

- Erin, Realtor
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