SoulCraft, Dreaming, and the Living Field of Consciousness
Over the past several months, I have been asked—by colleagues, former patients, readers, and friends—about the nature of my practice now, after more than forty years of clinical psychotherapy. The question has been sincere and recurring: What are you doing these days? How has your work changed?
This essay is my answer.
I am writing it to articulate the orientation of my work in this season of life and to offer clarity for those who feel drawn toward it. I call this work SoulCraft.
SoulCraft is not a rebranding of psychotherapy, nor a rejection of the clinical discipline that shaped me. It is the natural maturation of a lifetime devoted to listening—listening to suffering, to dreams, to symbolic life, and to the subtle relational field that emerges when two people attend carefully to what is unfolding beneath the surface of ordinary consciousness.
I am no longer able to take on new clinical psychotherapy patients. My focus now is on depth consultation, guidance, and soul companionship for individuals who are psychologically stable and drawn to the exploration of dreams, myth, spirit, and the living field of consciousness. This work is built upon decades of clinical experience, yet it no longer operates within a medical or treatment model. It is oriented toward meaning, interiority, and transformation.
At the heart of SoulCraft is a simple but profound understanding:
the psyche is alive, relational, and responsive.
Dreams are not puzzles to be solved or symptoms to be eliminated. They are communications—sometimes quiet, sometimes unsettling—from a deeper intelligence that seeks relationship, expression, and integration. When approached with patience and care, dreams have a remarkable capacity to reorganize a life from within.
What follows are two brief examples—drawn from the living field of this work—of how people have found their way into SoulCraft through dreams and synchronistic encounters, and how their lives shifted as a result.
The Dream of the Locked Chapel
Anna came to SoulCraft after many years of productive psychotherapy. By the time we met, she was emotionally stable, functional, and outwardly fulfilled. Yet she was troubled by a recurring dream that began shortly after her youngest child left home.
In the dream, she stood outside a small stone chapel at dusk. The door was locked. Through narrow windows, she could see candles burning inside, but no one answered when she knocked. She woke each time with a quiet ache—a mixture of longing and grief she could not explain.
Rather than interpreting the dream too quickly, we stayed with it. We attended to its atmosphere and feeling tone: the stillness, the sadness, the sense of something sacred but inaccessible. Over time, Anna recognized how the dream echoed her waking life—decades spent caring for others, meeting expectations, postponing her own interior life.
The locked chapel was not a problem to be solved. It was a truth asking to be acknowledged.
Several weeks later, a synchronistic event occurred. While traveling, Anna wandered into a small town she had never visited before and found herself standing outside a chapel that looked uncannily like the one from her dream. This one, however, was open. She entered, sat alone in the silence, and wept—not from despair, but from recognition.
In our work together, we resisted framing this as destiny or revelation. Instead, we explored what it meant to respond to the dream’s invitation in ordinary life. Anna began carving out time for contemplative practice, returned to painting—an abandoned passion—and made gentle but firm changes in her relationships.
The dream did not disappear. It transformed. The chapel door was no longer locked.
What shifted was not her belief system, but her relationship to her own interior authority. The dream had not demanded transcendence; it asked for presence.
The Man Who Dreamed of Fire Without Smoke
David sought SoulCraft after a series of vivid dreams that left him unsettled but quietly hopeful. In waking life, he was navigating a major transition—retirement, the end of a long marriage, and the disorientation that followed.
In one dream, he stood before a large iron vessel suspended over a fire. The fire burned steadily, but there was no smoke. Inside the vessel, something thick and dark was slowly heating. A voice—not spoken, but felt—said simply, “This is how it changes.”
David worried the dream meant he was being pulled into something overwhelming. Our work focused first on grounding—distinguishing symbolic intensity from psychological destabilization. As we stayed with the image, its wisdom clarified. The dream was not about destruction. It was about right temperature—fire contained, heat applied patiently, transformation without catastrophe.
Around this time, David noticed subtle synchronicities: repeated conversations about second acts of life, images of hearths and furnaces appearing unexpectedly, a book falling from a shelf open to a passage on alchemy and time. None of these were treated as signs to follow blindly. They were held as responses—the field answering his attention.
Over time, David became less anxious and more willing to remain with uncertainty. He began mentoring younger colleagues, volunteering, and allowing grief to surface without rushing to resolve it. The dreams continued, but with less urgency. The vessel was doing its work.
What mattered was not the explanation of the dream, but the way it reorganized his stance toward life: less striving, more listening; less fear of fire, more trust in process.
SoulCraft as Long-Term Accompaniment
These stories reflect the heart of SoulCraft. This is not therapy aimed at symptom reduction, nor spiritual coaching oriented toward enlightenment. It is presence and accompaniment rooted in mutual engagement, attunement, and meaning.
The work may include:
Dreamwork and engagement with the unconscious
Energetic and relational field awareness
Psycho-spiritual insight and soul development
Symbolic exploration of life transitions and thresholds
Throughout, care is taken to respect psychological limits, readiness, and the realities of daily life. SoulCraft assumes stability and a willingness to engage inwardly without bypassing what is humanly possible, practical, and necessary.
Dreams are honored not as answers, but as living processes. Synchronicities are not seized as proof, but held as gestures—moments when inner and outer worlds briefly echo one another, inviting reflection rather than conclusion.
The Living Field
At its deepest level, SoulCraft rests on the understanding that we do not explore the psyche alone. There is a living field of consciousness—relational, responsive, and subtle—in which dreams, images, and encounters arise. When we attend carefully, something begins to cook. Meaning emerges slowly. Life reorganizes itself from within.
This work does not promise certainty. It offers something quieter and more enduring: fidelity to the soul’s process.
In this season of my life and practice, SoulCraft is the work I am called to offer. It is not an ending, but a continuation—one shaped by time, discipline, and trust in the intelligence that moves beneath our stories.
The fire is lit.
The vessel is sound.
And the work, as always, is to listen.
An Invitation
SoulCraft consultation is offered for those who are psychologically stable and drawn to sustained, depth-oriented exploration of dreams, life transitions, and the living field of consciousness. This work is relational and reflective, unfolding at a human pace. It is not psychotherapy, but a seasoned accompaniment rooted in presence, attunement, and meaning.
If this orientation speaks to you—if dreams, symbolic life, and questions of meaning are quietly asking for your attention—you are welcome to reach out. My practice is currently full, though openings do arise from time to time, and I’m always open to thoughtful inquiry:
✉️ pdeblassie@gmail.com
Initial email conversations are simple and exploratory—an opportunity to sense whether the work is a good fit and whether the timing is right.
The invitation, as always, is not to hurry—
but to listen.