Gathering your dreams…

Meet Our Dream Experts

Backed by Dream Experts

myDream was shaped with guidance from experts — psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and more — who understand the power of thoughtful dream interpretation.

Their expertise helped define the app's interpretation approach, dream symbol library, educational content, feature direction, and user experience — creating a trusted tool for exploring dreams with depth, clarity, and confidence.

Through ongoing guidance and accuracy validation, our dream experts also help ensure myDream interpretations remain meaningful, relevant, and aligned with the quality standards the app was built around.

By combining human insight with advanced technology, myDream helps users better understand their dreams and use them as a source of self-reflection, creativity, and personal growth.

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How Our Dream ExpertsSupport myDream

Strengthening the Dream Symbol Library

Their expertise supports the development and validation of dream symbol meanings, creating a trusted foundation for more meaningful interpretations.

Guiding the Interpretation Approach

Our dream experts help shape how myDream interprets dreams, bringing depth to dream themes, personal context, recurring patterns, and the meaning behind each experience.

Providing Ongoing Expert Guidance

As myDream evolves, our dream experts continue to support the app’s growth, helping ensure the experience remains thoughtful, credible, and aligned with the real value of dream interpretation.

Validating Interpretation Accuracy

Our dream experts evaluate real dream interpretations that users have voluntarily shared for anonymous quality analysis. Their review helps verify that the interpretations are accurate, meaningful, and aligned with how myDream is intended to work.

Shaping Meaningful Features

Their insight helps guide feature development around what dreamers actually need, from better journaling tools to deeper interpretation experiences.

Creating Educational Content

Our dream experts contribute articles and resources that help users better understand dreams, recurring dreams, nightmares, lucid dreaming, dream journaling, and personal growth.

How Our Dream ExpertsSupport myDream

Strengthening the Dream Symbol Library

Their expertise supports the development and validation of dream symbol meanings, creating a trusted foundation for more meaningful interpretations.

Our Experts

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Pamela A. Boker, PhD, MA, CSW

  • Clinical Psychologist
  • Dream researcher

There’s no such thing as a “bad dream” — only something meaningful to explore.

Dr. Pamela Boker spent her career exploring how our unconscious mind shapes our thoughts, emotions, and creativity. She believed that our inner world — especially the parts we don’t fully see — plays a powerful role in who we become.

Her book The Grief Taboo looks at how hidden grief and early emotional bonds influenced the work of major American writers. She also wrote many academic articles and lighter book reviews, all focused on understanding the unconscious mind through literature and storytelling.

As a psychotherapist trained in classical psychoanalysis and Jungian dream theory, Dr. Boker helped clients connect their memories, creativity, dreams, and personal strengths. She often reminded people, half-jokingly but with real insight, that there’s no such thing as a “bad dream” — only something meaningful to explore.

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Natasha Bolvin

  • Certified Dreamwork Guide
  • Speaker & Writer

Walking the threshold between waking life and the dreaming world.

For over two decades, Natasha has walked the threshold between waking life and the dreaming world. She guides people in developing a deeper relationship with their dreams, drawing on years of study across contemplative practice, astrology, mysticism, and embodied spirituality.

She serves as a Committee Chair for the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), is faculty with Dream Studies Portal, and has facilitated dream workshops and retreats internationally. She is co-author of the Infinite Dreams Oracle Deck and writes Beyond the Subconscious, where intelligence expresses itself through dreams, symbols, and culture.

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Jean Crawford Ed.D, LPC/LMFT

  • Depth Psychologist

Listening to the wisdom that emerges in the night.

Jean Crawford is a depth psychologist with more than forty years of clinical experience, known for her compassionate, insightful work with dreams and the unconscious. For decades she has kept a dedicated dream journal, cultivating a lifelong relationship with symbolic imagery, psyche, and the inner life. In her private practice, Jean has guided clients in exploring their dreams as pathways to healing, meaning, and integration, helping them listen to the wisdom that emerges in the night and bring it consciously into waking life.

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Zoilita Grant, MS

  • Speaker
  • Author
  • Coach

Dreams as a powerful doorway into the subconscious.

Zoilita Grant is a Master Hypnotic Coach, author, international speaker, and pioneer in Hypnotic Coaching, with more than 50 years of experience studying the subconscious mind and dreams. Author of The Secret Life of Dreams, Zoilita has spent more than five decades exploring dreams as a powerful doorway into the subconscious and a source of insight, healing, creativity, and personal transformation. Her expertise combines psychology, hypnosis, dreamwork, and subconscious reprogramming.

Zoilita holds a BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley and an MS from the University of Texas at El Paso. She served six years as President of the Colorado Association of Psychotherapists and 21 years as Vice President of the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners. In 2025, she received the IMDHA Lifetime Achievement Award recognizing her decades of contributions to hypnosis and personal transformation. Today, Zoilita speaks internationally on dreams, the subconscious mind, resilience, leadership, and creating life by design.

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Amina Mara, MFA

  • Researcher
  • Lucid Dream Coach
  • Podcast Host

Making dream research accessible.

Amina is a researcher, lucid dream educator, and host of The Dream World Podcast, where she explores the science, psychology, and transformative potential of dreams and consciousness through conversations with leading researchers, clinicians, and experienced dream practitioners. She has been teaching lucid dreaming professionally for over 7 years. As a lifelong lucid dreamer since childhood, Amina has spent decades studying the dream state through both personal experience and academic research.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Emory University and a Master of Fine Arts in Motion Media Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), where her thesis explored lucid dreaming as a tool for creative inspiration. She also holds a Certificate in Dream Studies from Sofia University, further strengthening her interdisciplinary approach to dream research and education. Amina serves on the Board of Directors for the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and is co-author of the international bestselling book Divine Dreamers.

Through her podcast, educational programs, and global online community, she is passionate about making dream research accessible while inspiring others to develop a deeper relationship with their dreams, creativity, and consciousness.

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Pam Muller

  • Dream Expert
  • Spiritual Director
  • Educator

Practical, accessible tools for everyday dreamers.

Pam Muller is a dream expert and certified spiritual director with more than twenty years of experience studying, teaching and working with the language of dreams. Drawing on her background as an educator, she is known for translating complex dreamwork concepts into practical, accessible tools for everyday dreamers. Through her private practice, original frameworks and public offerings, Pam enjoys guiding individuals to access insight, emotional clarity and develop a more meaningful relationship with their inner life.

As a longtime member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), Pam’s involvement has grown to include serving in her current role as a regional representative for her area. Alongside her depth of experience, she brings a strong understanding of how contemporary audiences encounter dreamwork, informed by her broad and engaged community. With an online audience of more than 50,000 followers, she remains attentive to what draws people in, where they hesitate and what helps them stay connected to the wisdom of their own dreams and inner callings.

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Lindsey Rutledge, MD

  • Psychiatrist
  • Jungian Analyst

Making Jungian concepts accessible to modern audiences.

Lindsey Rutledge, MD is a psychiatrist and Jungian Analyst in private practice in Littleton, Colorado. She received her medical degree from Creighton University and completed psychiatry residency training at Montefiore Medical Center, followed by a trauma fellowship at Sheppard Pratt. She completed her Jungian analytic training at the CG Jung Institute of Colorado. Dr. Rutledge’s work focuses on integrating depth psychology with contemporary psychiatry. She is particularly interested in the role of dreams, symbolic life, and the intersection of individual and collective psychology. Her teaching emphasizes making Jungian concepts accessible to modern audiences and bridging analytic thought with trauma-informed care. In addition to her clinical practice, she facilitates dream groups.