Episode 726: Working with Dreams & Nightmares with Leslie Ellis
The Trauma Therapist
Guy Crawford Macpherson
4.5 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, with a specialization in somatic approaches. Her dissertation on using focusing-oriented therapy to treat PTSD for refugees with recurrent nightmares won the Ernest Hartmann award from the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
In This Episode
- Leslie’s website
- A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy. Implementing Simple and Effective Dreamwork
- Leslie on episode 446 of the podcast
- International Association For The Study of Dreams
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| 1:30.5 | Five, four, three, two, and one. Our folks, welcome back to the podcast. Very excited to have |
| 1:37.6 | back, Dr. Leslie, Leslie, welcome back. Thank you. I'm really happy to be back. |
| 1:44.0 | Awesome, awesome. |
| 1:45.3 | So Dr. Leslie Ellis is a leading expert in the use of somatic approaches in psychotherapy, |
| 1:50.1 | in particular for working with dreams, nightmares, and the effects of trauma. |
| 1:54.8 | She's the author of a clinician's guide to dream therapy, published by Rutledge in 2019, |
| 2:00.0 | and offers many training |
| 2:01.5 | opportunities and embodied experiential dream work based on her book. |
| 2:06.0 | She's a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, |
| 2:10.0 | with a specialization in semantic approaches. |
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