Our Practitioners

Jen Sonstein Maidenberg, M.A. is a writer, researcher, and Natural Dreamwork practitioner in training. In addition to dreams and dreaming, she is currently researching precognition, synchronicity, memory, consciousness, and time, all through the lens of healing. Her personal healing work and current work with clients includes a focused interest in attachment trauma and C-PTSD. She is also a student of Kabbalah.

Laura Smith-Riva (she/they) is a certified practitioner of Natural Dreamwork and practicing Druid of the Green Mountain Druid Order. She offers one-on-one dream consultation to individuals in the US and abroad and is a mentor for Natural Dreamwork Practitioners and student Druids in training. Laura is on the faculty for The Studio for Movement Artsand Therapies in Bangalore, India and for the Green Mountain Druid School in Worcester, Vermont.

Jennifer Badot is a poet, visual artist, Tarot reader, and Natural Dreamwork practitioner in training. A life-long devotee of dreaming, Badot believes that our world needs engaged and activated dreamers now more than ever — as a pathway for individual and collective healing and as a way toward imagining a just and healthy future, for ourselves and our planet, one dream at a time.

Marian Enochs Gay is a certified Natural Dreamwork practitioner offering a contemplative approach to dreams as a path to soul. She is devoted to helping dreamers deepen their relationship with their own dreams. Her own dreamwork path began with Natural Dreamwork founder Rodger Kamenetz in 2009 and she has worked with clients since 2014. She has given workshops and presentations on dreams and dreamwork and currently edits the Natural Dream blog.

Kat Samworth, is a certified practitioner of Natural Dreamwork and a nationally board-certified health coach. In 2009, Kat began the life-changing path of dreamwork with the founder of Natural Dreamwork, Rodger Kamenetz. From the very first session, Kat experienced the power of her dreams, reconnecting her to long forgotten places in her soul. The experience enlivened her and shifted her life from that day forward.

Julie Filipic is a Certified practitioner of Natural Dreamwork and a Spiritual Director. While Julie has worked with dreams for many years, it was when she began her own journey with Natural Dreamwork many years ago that she discovered the healing power of reconnecting to herself on a deeper level. By allowing the images in dreams to come alive, she has experienced healing and life changing growth in waking life.

Cara Angela Liguori is a certified Somatic Practitioner, Movement Educator for adults and infants through the School for BodyMind Centering®, Natural Dreamwork Practitioner, writer and dancer practicing in NYC. Cara has gained much personal clarity, agency, direction, and freedom from exploring her own dreams with Keren Vishny and the Natural Dreamwork community since early 2019. She knows intimately the value of being reconnected to her inner wisdom and inspiration through her dreams.

Rodger Kamenetz has been instrumental in shaping and articulating Natural Dreamwork. He is an award-winning author, poet and teacher. Of his fifteen books, his best known is The Jew in the Lotus, the story of rabbis making a holy pilgrimage through India to meet with the Dalai Lama.

Liza Hyatt, ATR-BC, LMHC is a board-certified art therapist and licensed mental health counselor in Indianapolis with over 30 years of trauma-focused counseling experience. Liza is also a published poet and is adjunct faculty for the Art Therapy Master’s Degree program at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, where she teaches students depth psychology approaches to imagination. Encountering images as alive and the imagination as healing is at the heart of Liza’s approach to art therapy, poetry, and the creative process. Liza has been engaged in her own dreamwork since 1987.

Jan Dean, Ph.D. is a psychologist, yoga teacher, artist, and passionate student of the dream. She brings to her dreamwork practice decades of spiritual exploration and psychological training including, the Pathwork, Iyengar Yoga, Focusing, and Conscious Femininity.

Donna Marie Mazzola a passionate advocate for the potency of dreams and their ability to transform one’s waking life. It is her experience and belief that dreams offer moments of Sacred Encounter and bring Helpers who are incessantly and creatively tethering us to Soul. She is a Natural Dreamwork practitioner who offers both one-to-one and group sessions.

Anne Discepolo is a yoga and meditation instructor, a bodyworker, shamanic healer and a Drup Shen Ma, (Tibetan energy healer- Tse Dup Yang Bod practitioner). She has over 20 years experience working full time in the healing arts with a very diverse clientele. She is excited to be adding Natural Dreamwork sessions to her integrative healing practice. She has had a lifelong interest in dreams and has explored them from many perspectives.

Ann Shine Duck is a Certified Natural Dreamwork Practitioner and a psychotherapist practicing in the northern suburbs of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in Depth Psychology in 2001 and her Certification in Natural Dreamwork in 2021. Additionally, she is trained in Somatic Experiencing (SE) and NueroAffective Relational Model (NARM), and works with attachment, relational and developmental trauma.

Kezia Vida has been a diligent student of her dreams since she graduated from Yale University with a degree in Philosophy in 2009. It was then that she began 1:1 dreamwork with Marc Bregman, later joining North of Eden and entering their practitioner training program in 2013. Since then, she has spent over 2000 hours directly working with 1:1 dream clients, leading dream groups, coordinating and participating in dream retreats, and educating about dreams.

Brinda Jacob-Janvrin a movement-based expressive arts therapist and a performer with more than 30 years of performance experience. A qualified counsellor, she has been working extensively with movement and arts therapies since 2003. A practitioner and facilitator for Authentic Movement and Natural Dreamwork, Brinda is passionate about the arts, the mysterious workings of the Psyche-Soma and connections between the Body and Earth.

Elizabeth has always been a dreamer and has found immense growth in the process of sitting with her own dreams, as well as helping others navigate theirs. She is a practicing Druid, and Interfaith Minister with a natural proclivity for spiritual understanding. Elizabeth has a background in Psychology and the Arts.

Dr. Keren Vishny is a psychotherapist and certified Natural Dreamwork Practitioner. She is also a teacher and workshop facilitator affiliated with the CG Jung Center, Evanston Illinois, and the Marion Woodman Foundation. Over her 28 years of work in the healing arts, Keren has shifted from mainstream medical practice to a focus on psycho-spiritual healing through dreams.