Dreamwork

Dreamwork is a co-creative process of exploring the associations, feelings, and meanings of a dream with the aim of applying the secret guidance of the unconscious in practical ways.

Dreams never tell us what we already know.

Dreams have always fascinated humans.

From the beginning of time, people have tried to decipher the strange visions visiting them at night: some saw them as real experiences, others as the unlived life of our primitive, instinctual side, and others as the nighttime effects of indigestion. However, it was Sigmund Freud who truly reignited our passion for dreams in the West. He called dreams the via regia - the royal road to the unconscious. And boy, was he right.

Even though Freud's work was seminal for psychoanalysis, we owe our infinitely rich framework for dream analysis to his student, Carl Jung, whose fascination for the collective unconscious, alchemy, and mysticism allows us to give our dreams the reverence they truly deserve.

Carl Jung instructed us to see dreams as inner dramas where all objects and figures appear as symbols. In the dream, everything means something; and the only person who can translate it is the dreamer.

The symbols may relate to your everyday world, or to larger, archetypal themes. They may give you an early warning about something that may happen should you hold on to your current attitude, a new perspective about something unfolding in your life, or even a whole new direction. That's the compensatory function of dreams in action.

Taking the time to listen to your dreams can help you understand the source of your inner conflicts, make better decisions, discover potential underlying health issues, improve your self-knowledge, or just live a more balanced life.

“In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude - the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation.” - Carl Jung

How it works

Choose a dream or a series of dreams you want to discuss. It helps to write them down ahead of the session is as much detail as possible–everything means something.

My approach focuses on guiding you to find your own meanings by exploring the symbols on a personal and archetypal level, and then finding some of the messages the dream has for you at this point of your life.

Together we will decide on what next steps you may need to take in order to integrate the dream and honour it: a ritual, artwork, movement, meditation, or other exercises.

For complex dreams, you’re welcome to book a shorter check-in session along with your main reading. The second session can be booked anytime after your first to reflect on developments to the theme.

All sessions are held via Zoom.

What clients say about dreamwork

  • Working with Maria was very insightful. She helped me understand how my dream was filled with archetypes and meaningful symbols. The session was not only about deciphering the dream, but also about finding some concrete next steps. I loved how fluidly it all went, and this is due to Maria's smooth and witty way of working. This session still has echoes in my life, as I come back to what I’ve learned, from time to time.

    Madi

  • It’s truly hard to put in words the experience of dreamwork with Maria, especially since each dream is as unique as we are. The simplest way to describe a dreamwork session is that Maria helps you find the missing pieces in a puzzle that a dream can be. But imagine that after you effortlessly built the puzzle together, you look at the final result and she gives you the confidence and tools to narrate what you see. So refreshing, as you end up seeing things you couldn't have before.

    Andreea