Valerie Reichmann - Holistic Psychotherapy & Dreams ולרי רייכמן

16/11/2025

Once upon a time, a dream wrote a fairytale for me: Two sisters lived in a kingdom of light and silence.
One wore the crown, proud, radiant, certain of her place.
The other stood in the shadows, unseen, holding a power no one recognized.

Then the earth began to tremble. The ground split open with a roar, and from the cracked soil rose an ancient Elephant, wild, erupting, undeniable. Its presence changed everything. The old order shook. The crown slipped. Something hidden woke up.

The quiet sister, the one no one ever looked at, was suddenly called forward.
The kingdom saw her.
The Elephant saw her.
She saw herself.

And the old Queen, confused and stripped of her title, had to face the truth: The age had turned.
The forgotten one was no longer forgettable.

Dreams do this.
They don’t just show us images, they reorganize our psyche into myth.
They tell us which part of us is ruling, which part is hiding, and which part is finally ready to rise through the cracks.

What part of YOU is stepping out of the earth right now?

23/10/2025

Your dream’s place reveals your life’s phase :-)) Have you ever noticed where you are in your dreams?
The setting of a dream often mirrors where you are in life.
A classroom might suggest you’re learning something new,
a hotel that you’re in a temporary phase. If you’re dreaming that you’re climbing a mountain, it might suggest that you’re working hard to reach a goal or overcome a challenge.

Next time you remember a dream, pay attention to its place. It might be showing you exactly where you stand right now.

👉 What’s the most memorable place you’ve ever dreamed of?
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16/10/2025

SOMETIMES OUR DREAMS CRY FOR THE WORLD, NOT JUST FOR OURSELVES.

The night before the release of the final 20 living hostages, I dreamed that I too was a hostage, being held somewhere in India, which bordered with Israel. Before being freed, a charlatan dentist altered my teeth so that when I smiled, it was no longer quite me who smiled. He had altered my face. It was still me, but not quite.

When I was finally released and reunited with my loved ones, I screamed an animalistic, raw cry of pain and relief. It sounded terrible, yet it was so necessary.

This dream felt like such a big dream where somehow, the hostages’ liberation felt like mine too, an echo of collective release moving through the psyche.

My altered smile reflects my forever transformation since October 7th, in which something inside of me changed forever.

In Jungian terms, such dreams arise when personal and collective energies converge. They give voice to what cannot yet be spoken, such as grief, pain, and perhaps possibility of renewal.

Sometimes the psyche dreams for the many through the one. This dream was much needed.

09/05/2025

*The Power of the Symbolic*
With my client’s permission, I invite you into the world of this image. The instruction was simple: “Draw a tree. You are the tree.”

What emerged is a tree with apples, fruit of life, vitality, and potential. But one half of the tree has been chopped by an axe… placed by the tree itself. A powerful and honest gesture.

As an expressive arts therapist, I don’t rush to interpret, I listen. The tree speaks!
It speaks of inner conflict, the part of us that wants to grow, bear fruit, thrive…
And the part that self-sabotages, cuts itself off, perhaps to prevent vulnerability or change.
The roots are missing. There is no visible ground. The tree floats…creative, imaginative, but also maybe ungrounded from a safe foundation.

In expressive arts, we invite the image to speak for itself.
I might gently ask:
   •   What part of you is holding the axe?
   •   Who or what planted this tree?
   •   What happens if you water it?
   •   What is the tree protecting itself from?

This is not art therapy for aesthetic’s sake. This is symbolic dialogue, where the image becomes a mirror, a voice, and sometimes, a healing force.

06/05/2025

Have you ever had the same theme show up in your dreams again and again?

That’s not random. It might be a dream series.

A single dream gives you a message for the moment.
But a dream series reveals a deeper process unfolding over time.

The unconscious doesn’t always speak in one dream.
It tells a story, bit by bit, through recurring symbols, settings, or emotions.

Noticing these patterns can help us understand what part of us is trying to change, heal, or come into awareness.

Start tracking your dreams.
You might discover you’re in the middle of a story your soul is trying to tell you.

24/04/2025

I always struggled with the word “FORGIVENESS”. Not because I’m against healing of course, but because of the power dynamic it holds.

“I FORGIVE YOU” always sounded to me like something one person says from a higher place to someone lower. Like a verdict. And I don’t want that kind of power. I don’t want to forgive someone. I want to find a way to move on that doesn’t make me feel as if I’m sitting on a throne, telling the other person he’s free to go.

To me it’s about saying: Yes, it hurt. Yes, I’m still carrying it. And no, I don’t want to carry it forever.

I want to find a language that honors the scars. To me it’s about letting go of the resentment and give myself permission to feel something else. It’s about stop resisting what happened and make place for integration, transforming my pain to another level of consciousness.

11/04/2025

Every year, we tell the same story:
- Out of Egypt
- Through the Sea
- Into Freedom

But what if we turned the story inward? What if Egypt were not only a place on a map, but a place in our psyche? A state of inner captivity, of living small, afraid, stuck in old roles, old fears, old defenses?

Inside each of us lives a Pharaoh. The voice that clings to control, that resists change. And inside us, too, lives a Moses, quiet, hesitant, but holding a vision of something else. Could we allow them to be in dialogue with each other?

Then come the plagues.
Maybe not hail or frogs, but emotional chaos and painful truths. This year, we don’t have to imagine the plagues, we’re living them. As a people, we carry the pain of October 7th, the war, the losses, the fear, the deaths, and the unbearable fact that some families are still waiting for their loved ones to return. And across the border, countless families too carry unbearable grief, destruction, and despair. What are the plagues we are enduring? And what plagues might we be inflicting on others, and on ourselves? These are so many important questions we should never ignore asking.

And then we reach the sea.
That place in-between. Where the past still pulls, and the future is unclear.
The crossing of the sea is a psychological moment. A transition.
It’s not about certainty. It’s about movement. It’s about letting go of what no longer serves us, even if we don’t yet know what’s on the other side.

This Pesach, I also invite us to reflect inward on the Four Sons.
Not as four different people sitting around a table,but as four inner voices, or perhaps four levels of consciousness within us:

– THE WISE ONE, our capacity for reflection, integration, and deep understanding.
– THE CHALLENGING ONE, the shadow part that resists, provokes, or stands apart, often pointing toward places in us that need growth and acceptance.
– THE NAIVE ONE, the playful, curious voice of the inner child, open to learning, discovery, and wonder.
– And THE ONE WHO DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO ASK, the quiet part in us that hasn’t found a voice yet.

Each of them deserves a place at our inner table. Freedom begins when we stop pushing these parts away and start listening.

Hag Sameach to all. Especially to those who are in the in-between, no longer where they were, not yet where they’re going.

If you'd like to explore these themes in therapy or dreamwork, I’d be honored to walk beside you.

👉 www.valeriereichmann.com

29/03/2025

12/03/2025

Thank you Alef Trust