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This is a place where inner experience is approached with care and curiosity. Dreams, nightmares, imaginings, and embodied responses are viewed as meaningful messages arising from below the threshold of our habitual awareness. Our offerings open you and your clients up to the radical intelligence of dreaming and the body.
I offer writings, courses, and research-based resources for mental health professionals and individuals interested in profound yet gentle and embodied ways of working with dreams and nightmares.
My newsletter shares reflections on dream science and clinical practice, along with updates on courses, workshops, conferences, and public talks. Subscribers receive essays on dreams and nightmares, reports from professional gatherings, and early notice of upcoming trainings and events.
The newsletter is written for clinicians and thoughtful readers interested in trauma informed approaches to dreamwork, nightmare treatment, and embodied experiential practice.
Our current newsletter is available HERE.
Dr. Leslie Ellis’s work integrates contemporary dream science with experiential, trauma informed methods developed through decades of clinical practice. The focus is on understanding dreams and nightmares as meaningful psychological experiences, while supporting emotional regulation, safety, and integration.
Research informed courses for mental health professionals working with dreams and nightmares in clinical settings. The focus is on experiential methods and approaches that prioritize safety, emotional regulation, and the client’s lived experience.
Courses designed for individuals who want to understand their own dreams and nightmares in a way that feels safe, grounded and respectful of both dreamer and dream. The emphasis is on gentle, experiential approaches that support clarity, emotional regulation, and reduced distress.
Ongoing writing on dreams and the inner life, including reflections on trauma, depression, and clinical practice. The Substack is a space for longer form, exploratory writing grounded in research, teaching, and lived clinical experience.
Short reflections and longer form essays on dreams, trauma, and the inner life, grounded in clinical experience and contemporary research.
What professionals are saying
Reflections from clinicians and practitioners using this work in practice
My life has changed in every way because of this work... This has been the most transformative experience of my career.
Leslie has a beautiful gift of creating an open, safe place for people to share dreams. Taking this class was one of the best decisions I ever made.
I was having really frequent nightmares that were just terrifying. After our session, the nightmare we worked with just went away and never came back... I couldn’t find a solution before that.
For me, the experiential embodied dreamwork process is such a respectful, deeply meaningful, and soul-feeding way of working with dreams. This way of accessing unconscious content feels deeply nourishing, healing, and transformative.
The embodied experiential element of this approach has and continues to surprise me with its potential to open up elements of a dream and offer life-forward guidance… Professionally, I’ve been able to introduce this approach to dreamwork with the highly sensitive and creative neurodivergent population I work with.
Leslie Ellis is in my view the world’s best clinician and writer in the area of dream and nightmare treatment. She is scholarly and has an in-depth knowledge of brain-body interaction, but writes very accessibly, with great examples of how dreams — even the most horrific — can take a client to a better waking life.
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