Dreamwork For Yourself

Learn how to work with your dreams as a meaningful source of insight, emotional processing, and creative awareness.

Ready to explore the deeper meaning behind your dreams?

You don’t need to be a therapist or a mystic to work with your dreams, only curious.

Whether you’re looking for emotional clarity, creative insight, or a deeper connection with yourself, this self-paced course offers a grounded, research-informed approach to engaging with your dreams.

Led by dream researcher and clinician Dr. Leslie Ellis, you’ll learn simple, practical ways to work with dream imagery that are safe, structured, and surprisingly effective.

What’s Inside the Course:

This course is organized into three clear modules that guide you from understanding dreams to actively working with them. You can move at your own pace, revisit sections, and return to the practices over time.

Welcome & Foundations

What dreams are and why they matter
How to start remembering your dreams
Tips for setting up a dream journal or practice space

Personal Dreamwork Practices

A series of guided prompts, including:
- Journaling, finding help in dreams, safe re-entry, creative exploration, lucid and co-creative dreaming
Audio or written guidance for each step

Integration & Wrap-Up

How to sustain your dreamwork practice over time
Final reflections and next steps

What This Course Will Do for You:

Learn how to reliably recall and record your dreams, even if you rarely remember them now
Use dream journaling and imagery as tools for emotional processing and self-understanding
Work with intense or confusing dreams in ways that feel safe and contained
Access your dreams as a source of creative insight and problem-solving
Explore practices such as lucid dreaming and guided dream re-entry at your own pace
Build a sustainable dreamwork practice with clear structure and expert guidance

What Participants Are Saying:

Course Participant

This course completely changed how I relate to my dreams. I had no idea they could be so helpful, or that I could feel safe exploring even the intense ones.

Course Participant

Dr. Ellis’s approach is gentle, grounded, and incredibly wise. I felt like I was being guided by someone who truly understands how the inner world works.

Course Participant

The prompts were short, clear, and surprisingly deep. I didn’t expect to feel so supported in an online course.

Your Instructor

Dr. Leslie Ellis is the author of A Clinician's Guide to Dream Therapy (Routledge, 2025), and has spent twenty-five years in clinical practice specializing in dreamwork and somatic psychology. She has published reviews on the nightmare-suicide link and on nightmare causes and treatment in Dreaming, Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies, and the Journal of Projective Psychology and Mental Health.

Leslie's approach bridges experiential depth with clinical rigor, drawing on Gendlin's focusing-oriented therapy, Jungian and Gestalt traditions, and current research and developments in the field of dreams and nightmares. She has extensively studied our best current understanding of nightmares and their treatment, and has developed an integrative treatment protocol that incorporates evidence-based, experiential, and trauma-informed ways to help those who suffer from nightmares. This is the knowledge base that will be shared with you in this course.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to remember my dreams to take this course?
No! Many people begin with very little dream recall. The course includes techniques to help you begin remembering and recording your dreams, no matter your starting point.

Is this course trauma-informed?
Yes. Dr. Ellis is a recognized expert in trauma and nightmare treatment. All practices offered are gentle and grounded in current research, with options to engage only at the level that feels safe for you.

How long does the course take?
It’s self-paced. You can complete it in a weekend or take your time over several weeks, and you’ll retain access so you can revisit it anytime.

Begin Your Dreamwork Journey

Dreams are more than just random images, they’re rich with insight, emotion, and inner guidance. This course is an invitation to slow down, tune in, and learn from your own inner world.

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leslie@drleslieellis.com

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