05/28/2026
Dreams can offer powerful insight into healing, meaning, and the deeper truths within us. ✨🧠💭
NDNU is proud to highlight the deeply connected works The Emotional Truth of Dreams: Learning from Dream Dialogues in Psychotherapeutic and Spiritual Practice by Dr. Willow Pearson Trimbach and Eva Tuschman Leonard, and The Spiritual Psyche: Mysticism, Intersubjectivity, and Psychoanalysis, co-edited by NDNU’s Dr. Helen Marlo and Dr. Willow Pearson Trimbach. 📚✨
Together, these books explore the profound relationship between dreams, mysticism, psychotherapy, spirituality, and the emotional truths that shape human experience. The Spiritual Psyche established a foundation for an ongoing lineage of scholarship centered on psychoanalysis, spirituality, relational healing, and creative collaboration. Building on that work, that includes a foreword written by Dr. Marlo, The Emotional Truth of Dreams invites readers into collaborative dream dialogues and reflections that reveal how both waking and nocturnal dreams can deepen psychotherapeutic practice, spiritual awareness, and everyday life. 💫
These interconnected works illuminate how attention to the spiritual psyche can foster deeper understanding, emotional growth, and transformation — not only within ourselves, but within our relationships and communities as well. 🤝💙
⭐️ About the Authors & Editors:
🧠 Willow Pearson Trimbach, PsyD, LMFT, MT-BC is Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Clinical Psychology Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is also a psychologist, psychotherapist, music therapist, author, singer, and songwriter.
🧠 Eva Tuschman Leonard, LMFT is a psychotherapist, writer, and visual artist based in Northern California whose work explores illness, grief, desire, and emotional healing.
🧠 Helen Marlo, Ph.D., Dean of NDNU’s School of Psychology, is a scholar-clinician, psychoanalyst, and author whose work explores the intersections of mysticism, psychoanalysis, spirituality, synchronicities, dreams, consciousness, and the human psyche.
At NDNU’s School of Psychology, students are encouraged to explore psychology through both rigorous clinical training and deeper human inquiry. Rooted in whole-person education, the School of Psychology emphasizes relational learning, community engagement, depth psychology, and transformative approaches to healing that prepare students to thoughtfully navigate the complexities of the human experience. 📖✨
