05/07/2026
Dreams can offer powerful insight into healing, meaning, and the deeper truths within us. 🌙✨
NDNU is pleased to promote The Emotional Truth of Dreams: Learning from Dream Dialogues in Psychotherapeutic and Spiritual Practice, a new book by former NDNU School of Psychology professor Willow Pearson Trimbach and Eva Tuschman Leonard. NDNU’s Dr. Helen Marlo wrote the foreword to this powerful book.
Releasing on May 14, this powerful new publication challenges the common belief that dreams are not real, instead revealing them as profound expressions of our deepest emotional truths. Through collaborative dream dialogues and reflections on more than a dozen dreams, the authors explore how both waking and nocturnal dreams can inform psychotherapy, spiritual practice, and everyday life. The book invites readers to deepen their awareness, listen more closely to the psyche, and uncover new meaning through the emotional truths embedded in our dream experiences.
This work also builds on a rich lineage of scholarship connected to NDNU, highlighting the ongoing collaboration between Dr. Marlo and Dr. Pearson Trimbach, and the continued exploration of the relationship between the spiritual psyche and emotional truth.
⭐️ About the Authors:
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 practices psychotherapy in the Bay Area, providing consultation and supervision. She is also a psychologist, psychotherapist, music therapist, author, singer, and songwriter. Her most recent album, *Caesura’s Cry*, was released in July 2025.
Eva Tuschman Leonard, LMFT, is a psychotherapist, writer, and visual artist based in Northern California. Her first book, *Bodywork*, is a meditation on illness, grief, and desire told through her drawings and written reflections.
