When I think about how much you’ve given to me, words fail. Your warmth, compassion, knowledge and true caring have helped me through some of the most difficult parts of my life. You have helped me to rediscover a capacity for joy.
-- L.L.
Dreamwork
Linda has designed the following methods of dream interpretation and healing from nightmares and PTSD:
The GAIA method
A trauma-informed nightmare protocol based on Jungian active imagination and best practice trauma treatments for PTSD.
The GAIA Method (Guided Active Imagination Approach) was created for healing from the terrors of nightmares. This method is based on two pillars:
- Jungian Active Imagination and dream re-entry techniques
- Current best practice phase-oriented trauma treatments
This method was created to help dreamers and practitioners avoid abreaction and re-traumatization from the dream exploration. It utilizes a personalized safety protocol by optimizing resourcing, imagery and anchoring to create safety prior to the exploration of the frightening dream images.
Integrated Embodied Dreamwork
Linda’s Integrated Embodied Approach to dreamwork includes attention to multiple layers of consciousness and is a body/mind/spiritual approach to dreamwork. It attends to physical sensations and body awareness, dream story and narrative, the emotional storyline of the dream, the dream images themselves, associations and a-priori meanings, and to spiritual connections from many traditions and beliefs. Utilizing a variety of mind/body and energy psychology methods such as IFS (Internal Family Systems), Focusing, Somatic Experiencing, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programing) and modifications of EMDR tailored to dreamwork, this dream exploration reaches deep layers of meaning and guides the dreamer to the action steps needed in life to make the changes the dreams point to.
The PARDES Method
Explores the layers of a dream through a Kabbalistic lens
This innovative system, the PARDES Method, uses the four layers of inquiry from which one reads the Torah. It is based on the Kabbalist Pardes (Orchard) system to explore multiple simultaneously true layers of a dream. This mystical system examines four ever-deepening layers of meaning from the literal, to the hinted at, to the associative, to the transpersonal and mystical layers.
Our life is the story we tell ourselves we are. Therapy, from the Greek “therapia”, means doing the work of the gods. The journey to healing is about doing this sacred work in the company of another.
-- Linda Schiller 2