Jen Sonstein Maidenberg

Both online and in person (in New Jersey), I guide individuals interested in remembering, exploring, understanding, and excavating their dreams. My one-on-one work with clients is rooted in Natural Dreamwork. (You can read more about Natural Dreamwork here.)

When we are dreaming, our dreams often feel as “real” to us as our waking life experiences; sometimes even more real. We experience real joy, real terror. Real excitement, real confusion. Real desire, real shame.

Have you had a dream like that?

Natural Dreamwork honors the realness of our dreams: specifically, how dreams elicit real feelings and responses from us, both inside the dream itself and after waking. Sometimes dreams are so vivid, or impact us so deeply, we remember them many years later.

With dreamwork, we re-enter a dream, slow it down, and experience it again together. In our sessions, you and I will engage with the events, images, encounters, and feelings in our dreams as worthy of real attention and care.  There are many benefits to doing so.

Dreamwork engages the senses and activates memory, reconnecting you to past versions of yourself or enabling visions of a future You, often generating hope and healing. You may discover that by working deeply with a dream, you will feel and heal in ways you didn’t even know you could or needed to.

With dreamwork, we begin to identify the patterns that play out again and again in our dreams and in our relationships, learning how to recognize them in waking life, as well. We also reconnect with our desires, our creativity, our interests, and our passion for life and for people. Over time, we get better at feeling into (rather than only trying to understand) the “language” of the dream.

Clients choose to work with me for a variety of reasons, including a desire to remember more dreams, understand “strange” or recurring dreams and nightmares, heal old wounds, feel more alive and connected in waking life, or mend relationships with themselves, their loved ones, or people who have passed.

Some clients also choose to meet to discuss and explore paranormal or supernatural experiences they’ve had in dreams or in waking life visions, as well as nonordinary states of awareness achieved through transcendent experiences or psychedelics. 

We all have blind spots about ourselves, especially when it comes to dreams, which are sometimes surreal, outside of ordinary time, or difficult to make sense of. A trusted dream practitioner familiar with the “dream landscape” will hopefully offer you a supportive and objective presence and act as guide during the working of dreams. That’s the goal. I don’t interpret or analyze your dreams. Together, we bring your dreams to life.

Note: You do not need to be an “active” dreamer in order to begin dreamwork. Some clients, in fact, choose to engage in dreamwork as a means for remembering their dreams. Everyone dreams, and with a bit of intention and practice, dreams will arise in our waking memory more easily and frequently. 

Resources

A good place to start learning more about my approach to dreams and dreamwork is by reading some articles on this site. Below are a few, but I also have archived the articles by topic for your convenience here.

What Your Middle of the Night Feelings Reveal

How to Remember More Dreams

Improving the Observer Mind Through Dreamwork

Dreams Helped Me With My Insomnia

Dreaming Of Our Little Ones and Loved Ones Lost

In addition to this web site, I have written dream-related articles the Natural Dreamwork web site, and elsewhere. On a monthly basis, I offer a dream-related “audio chat” (imagine a love child between a podcast and a whatsapp voice memo from a good friend) on Patreon. These are available free to the public for one month after release. Back episodes are available for a low subscription fee that directly supports my dream research.

Consult With Me About Your Dreams

To get in touch with me about working one-on-one or to learn more about whether dreamwork is something you would benefit from, reach out via: jensonsteinmaidenberg@gmail.com

I meet with clients on Zoom or in-person in my office in Southern NJ. Sessions are typically 60 – 75 minutes long. Most clients choose to meet weekly or every other week. My session rate for regular on-going Natural Dreamwork clients is $80. I offer a one-time introductory package for individuals interested in trying Natural Dreamwork.

Individuals who are interested in meeting just once to discuss a particular dream or dream-related question are always welcome. The fee is $100 for a one-hour consultation.

You may also ask for brief feedback on a particular dream by submitting a dream.

(Note: Natural Dreamwork is not psychotherapy and I am not a licensed psychotherapist or medical doctor. The articles on this web site or elsewhere on the internet are offered as educational resources, not medical advice. Natural Dreamwork Practitioners commit to ethical practice detailed here in our Code of Ethics.)