What is a Healing Dreamscape?

A Healing Dreamscape is a reflection of The Positive You. Sometimes we’re stuck between two worlds – the painful one we know and the hopeful one everyone keeps painting for us.  So like a good movie still, the Healing Dreamscape invites us into an alternate universe. With its persuasive digital reality, we can preview a better tomorrow – and in some cases, a better yesterday. A Healing Dreamscape is healing photo art for anyone who views life through a negative filter due to grief, trauma, loss or regrets.  Done well, it helps More »

Prescriptive Art for Meaning-Seekers Healing Dreamscapes are custom-created for one person, one couple or one family by a fine artist trained in meaning-making and prescriptive art. The prescriptive artist is skilled in visualizing positive self-belief stories and preferred stories with and for clients. These clients may be about to complete therapy or else they are about to use photographs and memories as part of their life review with a therapist or support group. Typically these individuals are referred by therapists and life coaches, bereavement staff, clergy and spiritual counselors because the time is More »

Healing Gift Ideas For Yourself Healing gift ideas are for the transformational moments in our lives: a sudden desire for change, a need to share an epiphany, an urge to say the unsaid or the unspoken. Ultimately, they are healing photo gifts for yourself, someone else, or both.  Examples of a healing gift idea for yourself might be: a sympathy or memorial gift of condolence from family or friends a legacy gift of remembrance for someone you held dear a commemoration or acknowledgement for a milestone, or The digital photo More »

Healing Loss and Regrets in 5 Steps Healing Dreamscapes involve both a PROCESS (Intake, Brainstorming with the client; Photo Search; Creation and Sharing) and a PRODUCT (a storytelling photomontage) for healing loss and regrets. I custom-create these fine art photomontages to visualize a “preferred story” or positive self-belief story that the client and I come up with together. The photomontage then becomes a tangible visualization of hope. For example, for those who are grieving a loss, I re-purpose photos – which at one time had happier associations but which are now More »

Types of Healing Dreamscapes Art Exhibit at NYU Medical Center Educational Goal of The Healing Memory Project Collaborating Therapist, Lauren Lazar Stern Stuck in a dark place with obsessive thoughts, guilt, loss and regrets –  how do the eating-disordered open up to hope? This is the quest explored by The Healing Memory Project, a collaboration between myself and Pittsburgh-based psychotherapist Lauren Lazar Stern, MA, ATR-BC, LPC.  Buoyed by success using prescriptive photomontage to help the bereaved continue bonds with the deceased, I met with Stern’s clients: women all secretly married to “Ed” More »