Nightmare Treatment Protocol
Looking for Trauma-Informed Nightmare Treatment?
Do you frequently experience nightmares, bad dreams, or struggle with a nightmare or sleep disorder? You wake up with a racing heart, feeling anxious, stressed, embarrassed. You feel like you were just being chased, falling, or losing your teeth. Maybe you just can’t stop dreaming about your ex or are having confusing visitations from someone you’ve lost. As someone with over a decade of experience with dreams, I want you to know that these are not just bad dreams, but are actually an essential key to your healing and wellness journey.
I offer a unique, holistic, integrated approach that has been developed through over a decade of dreamwork and dream study, a master’s in mental health counseling, and a long term practice and study of earth-based/animistic metaphysics, spirituality and healing technology.
Through my trauma-informed, compassion-centered, holistic approach, my clients are able to interrupt patterns of recurring nightmares and reduce associated negative symptoms typically within 4-5 sessions. By the end of 10 sessions, your nightmares can become a source of support and profound personal wisdom instead of a destabilizing nuisance.
My clients often describe a powerful shift: from feeling haunted, mocked, or utterly stumped by their dreams, to feeling guided, empowered, and supported both waking and dreaming life. Together, you will learn to relate and integrate your deepest emotional wounds, turning restless nights into opportunities for healing, growth, and transformation.
Is Now the Right Time to Address Your Nightmares?
Nightmares are a serious and often overlooked mental health symptom, capable of causing fatigue, insomnia, persistent nervous system activation, and can even indicate underlying conditions like PTSD, C-PTSD, major depression, or suicidality. As a provisionally licensed professional counselor (PLPC) in Louisiana, I take these impacts seriously.
While nightmare treatment offers profound healing, it’s crucial to ensure you have a foundation of stability first. This specialized work can be challenging and potentially destabilizing as we delve into the material within your dreams.
This process may not be the best fit for you if you are currently experiencing serious mental health symptoms such as:
- Neglecting basic self-care or daily activities
- Engaging in unhealthy substance use
- Primarily coping with self-harming or self-destructive behaviors
- Having persistent suicidal ideation or attempts
- Extreme isolation
- Ongoing abuse, intense conflict, or violence in a close relationship
- Persistent, frequent flashbacks, panic attacks, or “losing time” due to dissociation
If you’re in Louisiana and experiencing these challenges, I offer general mental health counseling to help you reach a foundational level of stability, presence, and empowerment. This can prepare you for deeper work with nightmare material when the time is right. Click here to learn more about my mental health counseling practice.
Who Benefits Most from Nightmare Treatment?
Nightmare treatment is most effective for individuals who have already developed some stability and experienced relief from their most acute trauma or attachment wound symptoms, but still experience bothersome nightmares and a lingering feeling that more healing is needed. It can also be incredibly supportive for those who have functioned well for most of their lives but are now unexpectedly grappling with very intense nightmares, panic attacks, or chronic illness.
not sure if now is the right time?
Let’s find a time to get on the phone or zoom and connect.
I will offer whatever information and guidance I can, answer your questions, and together we can determine whether my offerings are a good fit for you right now.
Dreams as a Sacred Encounter
A core understanding of the Natural Dreamwork method I practice is that dreams are a sacred encounter. For many, true healing encompasses more than just the mind; it touches the spirit. If you have a personal connection or relationship with spirituality, religion, or a sense of the sacred, this work can be profoundly impactful. And if shadow work is your thing, dreams are the clearest source I know for shadow material.
Even if you’re curious or skeptical spiritually, working with your dreams therapeutically can be a spiritually enlightening experience. Dreams often surface fundamental questions about our metaphysical beliefs, opening pathways to deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
My intention is to create a safe space for you to explore your personal relationship with the divine or the sacred, and to discover its immense potential for healing through your dreams. I’ve had the privilege of working with clients from nearly every major religion, a wide array of alternative spiritual beliefs, and even those who are simply “not sure.” In almost every case, clients found a visceral, personal understanding of spiritual connection through this process. This is especially true for those who, despite being troubled by their dreams, still sense there’s some power or wisdom waiting to be found within them.
This approach may not be the best fit if you’re a committed scientific materialist, atheist, or primarily resonate with mainstream Western psychological paradigms of mental health care.
Are You Ready to Take a Deep Inner Journey?
It’s incredibly courageous that you’ve read this far and are considering exploring the material of your nightmares. Often, the images and experiences in our dreams directly reference some of the most difficult moments or periods of our lives. Turning towards these can mean shifting decades of conditioning and patterning in our nervous system. Simply put, it’s really scary.
However, many people who find me have a gut feeling that to truly heal, they need to more deeply process their dream material. They just haven’t been sure how to build the emotional strength to do so or they dread rehashing every detail of their past.
What’s so beautiful about dreams is that they help us develop an embodied sense of inner support and strength. You don’t have to feel fully ready to rehash every detail of our past to do this work, you just have to be willing to take the first step. Your dreams will reveal to you a custom-made path, offering the images, experiences, and guides you need at just the right moments.
I always tell my clients that truly, no one will ever fully grasp the depth of meaning of their own dreams except for them. My role in this work is as an experienced guide, there to hold compassionate space for you as you explore your intimate depths. The goal is not to rehash every detail of your trauma or personal narratives, but rather to focus on the sensory and emotional experiences of your dreams in a way that allows their healing power and glistening clarity to shine.
While all my clients were willing to look at their difficult dreams, every one of them experienced anxiety, resistance, and blocks to doing this work. You don’t need to be fearless or fully healed to be willing. But you do need curiosity, a deep desire for substantive change, and a bit of courage. If that sounds like you, I’d be honored to work together.
About the Nightmare Treatment Protocol
6 Month Package
1 Intake Session – 2 hrs
10 1 hr 1:1 Sessions
Invite to Dream Circle Online Gatherings
5 Personal Recorded Meditations based on Dream Material
COST: $1080 pd in full, or $189 / month over 6 months.
ready to learn more or get started?
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