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About Joan Robinson, LCSW
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Dreamwork is central to Dr. Joan Robinson’s focus as a psychotherapist. She began specializing in dreamwork twelve years ago during the time that she was being treated for breast cancer. Her own dreams were so helpful to her during that time that she decided to teach others how they could find the same help and support from their own dreams. She now leads ongoing groups.
A psychotherapist with thirty-seven years of experience, Dr. Robinson received her B.A. from Vassar College, where she was a religion major. She earned a masters in social work at the Smith College School for Social Work and her doctorate in ministry at the Wisdom University. She now has a private practice in the San Francisco bay area. She is licensed in California as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker #6332. She has been certified as a dreamwork group facilitator by Dr. Jeremy Taylor’s Institute for Advanced Archetypal Studies. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the Association for the Study of Dreams, and the Bay Area Dreamworkers Group.
In her dreamwork groups, Dr. Robinson uses art to help dreamers get to the deeper levels of meaning in their dreams. After the dreamer shares a dream, the group asks questions and discusses the dream, talking about what it would mean if it were their dream. Then group members all draw a picture of their own imagined version of the dream. Doing this enables them to get to a deeper feeling level, what psychology calls the subconscious, where both dreams and creativity originate. This level is the spiritual dimension, so the pictures and the dream open a window into the spiritual reality. Group members share the insights that have come up for them in the process of drawing the dream, and then everyone gives their picture to the dreamer as a gift in exchange for the dreamer’s gift of having shared a dream with us. The pictures are then used by the dreamer at home to continue their own work on the dream.
"Joan's work combines the archetypal creative impulse toward art and the universal longing for deeper spiritual insight, together with emotional and psychological development. Her dreamwork is profound fun."...Rev. Dr. Jeremy Taylor
To ask any questions or to make an appointment, call Dr. Robinson at 415-892-2606 or email her at JoansDream@aol.com.
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