Linda is an author, educator, artist and psychotherapist specializing in grief and dreams. Being a prolific dreamer since childhood, she discovered the remarkable potential of dreams as “good medicine.” Over the years, she has developed techniques that have empowered people to make more mindful changes in their lives and communities.
An advocate of the death awareness movement, Linda has hosted Death Cafés and community gatherings that invite courageous, compassionate conversation aimed at breaking the taboo surrounding death, fostering open dialogue, and reforming end-of-life care to be less institutionalized and more person-centered. Her clinical, teaching, and community work reflects a devotion to re-sacralizing death as an initiatory passage woven inseparably with dream life.
With years of training, facilitations, consultations and award winning research on using dreams as a therapeutic model, Linda has presented this work internationally in many institutes and organizations including John F. Kennedy University, California Association for Marriage Family Therapists, Hospice of the Valley, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and The Dream Institute of Northern California. She also facilitates groups, training and consulting other therapists as well as those who seek guidance from their dreams.
Linda has written for numerous publications including The Shift Network, GoodTherapy, SUFI, Immanence, Lucid Dream Exchange, DreamTime and as a contributor for the book Sleep Monsters and Superheroes and Dreams That Change Our Lives.
Linda is the new Executive Director for the Institute for the Study of Dreams, a Professor in the Masters of Consciousness and Transformative Studies program at John F. Kennedy University. She also serves on the Board of Directors and is Editor of Dream News for the International Association for the Study of Dreams as well as a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.
Approach to Therapy
Her work bridges depth psychology, ancestral healing, and intergenerational trauma, engaging dreamwork as a living, relational practice of descent. Rooted in the initiatory Orphic mysteries and the sacred dream traditions of her Italian lineage, she approaches dreams as chthonic thresholds—portals into the underworld dimensions of psyche where grief, death, and soul-making unfold. In this way, dreamwork becomes both companion and guide, restoring continuity between the living and the dead, the personal and the ancestral, the conscious and the unseen.
A prolific dreamer since childhood, Linda discovered early the profound potential of dreams as “good medicine.” Through her own personal practices, she discovered the remarkable potential of dreams. Since everybody dreams, then we all have access to the wise and healing messages there; as well as the dream’s transformative possibilities as “good medicine.” Over time, Linda has developed techniques that have empowered people to make more mindful changes in their lives and communities. Because dreams can go right to the core of issues, Linda uses a gentle approach while encouraging her clients to explore at their own pace while accessing their own wisdom.
Linda’s areas of emphasis include: • Dream Work for Personal & Professional Development • Bereavement, Loss & Disenfranchised Grief • Coping with Sleep Issues • Nightmares, PTSD & Stress • Anxiety & Depression • Family Systems & Ancestral Trauma • Working with Life Transitions • Building Self Esteem • Emotions and the Body • Finding Your Life’s Calling • Expressive Arts • Empathic & Highly Sensitive 
