Dr. Leslie Ellis
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Dr. Leslie Ellis is a leading expert in the use of somatic approaches in psychotherapy, in particular for working with dreams, nightmares and the effects of trauma. She is the author of A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy (Routledge, 2019) and offers many training opportunities in embodied, experiential dreamwork based on her book. 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.
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Dr. Michelle Carr
University of Montreal, Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine.
Professor, Principal Investigator, Dream Engineering Laboratory
Dr. Karen Konkoly
Northwestern University Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Post-doctoral researcher, Cambridge University
Dr. Adam Haar Horowitz
Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Medical School Center for Sleep and Cognition
Co-founder, DUST
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