Linda H. Mastrangelo, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

03/11/2026

New IDS course in April! 🔥💫🌀

New online course in April! 💫
Dreaming with the Ancestors: Three Perspectives

Linda Mastrangelo  (Italia Orfica: The Path of Ancestral Dream Mysteries & Initiation)

Alejandra Perez Reguera  (Dreams of Ancient Mexico: Working with Ancestral Indigenous Practices)

Sahlah Bilquis  (Rooted Healing: Ancestral Dreamwork and Implications for Trauma Informed Care)

2.5 CEs available
CE Provider: Institute for Dream Studies

Dreams have long been a doorway between worlds—a place where memory, spirit, and lineage meet. In this experiential workshop, we explore dreaming as a living relationship with our ancestors, both known and unknown.

Together, we’ll learn how ancestral presence can emerge through dreams, symbols, and night visions, offering guidance, healing, and connection across time. Through gentle ritual, guided reflection, and dream-sharing practices, participants will be invited to deepen their relationship with their own ancestral line while honoring cultural diversity and personal boundaries.

This workshop welcomes all backgrounds and belief systems. You do not need to know your ancestry or have vivid dreams to participate—only curiosity and respect for the wisdom that moves through us.

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03/11/2026

Thank you Nina Fry Kizler and Institute of Noetic Sciences for honoring the powerful bridge between grief and dreams within the noetic field—especially through psychopompic experiences and the study of consciousness. This work has been near and dear to my heart for many years, so I’m deeply grateful to see it held within these spaces of sacred dialogue and exploration. 🙏❤️‍🔥✨

Learn how dreams can help with grief through psychopomps, guides of souls or companions between worlds.

02/11/2026

✨New Course! This presentation explores dreams of the bereaved and the grieving process through the lens of Alan Wolfelt’s Six Mourning Needs and the concept of grief as initiation. Drawing on dream research, case studies, and personal reflection, the presentation will examine several types of bereavement dreams, including visitation, archetypal, and nightmares.

Although this course is designed for mental health professionals, hospice nurses and social workers, chaplains, end of life death care workers, caregivers and professionals working with grief and loss, all are welcome to attend. Registration link: https://keap.app/checkout/ntm674/dreams-of-the-bereaved?inf_contact_key=7caa929783b42e1f4adda7f343d70187

For more information about this presentation or upcoming events please visit: institutefordreamstudies.org or you can email: info@institutefordreamstudies.org
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10/26/2024

I had a lot of fun being interviewed! It should be a wonderful conference 💕✨⭐️🌙

Linda Mastrangelo, MA, LMFT is the Director for the Institute for Dream Studies, a psychotherapist (lightningtreetherapy.com) and professor of consciousness ...

12/22/2023

Blessed Solstice! 💕✨💫🌞❄️

BY LINDA H. MASTRANGELO, LMFT The Winter Solstice is almost upon us and it is the time of deep reflection, letting go of past hurts and gearing up for the […]

10/23/2021

New dreaming event! I will be presenting at The Many Worlds of Lucid Dreaming Online Conference---hope you can join me and other exciting presenters on Glidewing---please visit: https://www.glidewing.com/iasd/lucid_dreaming_conference.html

10/23/2021

Learn the ancient practice of dream incubation!

06/10/2021

There's still time to register for the all ONLINE Dream conference!

It is more than just a conference; even in its virtual format, it will be an extravaganza of fascinating presentations and special events.

Please join us, along with 5 world renowned keynote speakers and more than 130 presentations from over 100 presenters around the globe.

Everyone is welcome – whether you are a professional, a dreamworker, or just a curious or interested dreamer.

The program features peer reviewed workshops, in a multidisciplinary program including the scientific, psychological, spiritual, artistic, healing, lucid and extraordinary, ethnic and cultural aspects of dreaming;

AND a lot of fun events including opening receptions, a virtual Dream Art Exhibition and a meet the artists reception, the annual PSI Dreaming Contest, and even a virtual gathering for the ever-popular costume parade and Dream Ball.

This year’s featured tracks include Dreams and Ethnicity and Dreams and The Arts.

https://iasdconferences.org/2021/registration/

06/01/2021

New role, next chapter! So thrilled to be apart of this team and what it stands for!

12/18/2020

New online grief group for those who lost a loved one starting in January 2021:

If you or someone you know could use a safe and supportive place to explore the complexities of grief and gain tools for coping with these difficult times, please send this along to them. We have been facilitating a grief group for over 6 years and understand that coping with grief can be a challenging, especially during all the changes in our world today. We need not be alone in our journey. There is great comfort in knowing that everyone in our compassionate and loving group "Get’s It”! They know the feelings of grief.

Please note that this group will be conducted virtually until it’s safe to meet in person.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to reach out to me.

11/02/2020

As we move into the longer nights not only are we experiencing more dreams, we may also likely be having what we call Visitation Dreams - the dreams with the ones who passed. As a grief therapist, I’ve shared many of these dreams with my clients - they can be quite powerful and sometimes painful but I always like to hold the opportunity for profound healing ✨

by Linda H. Mastrangelo, MA, LMFT Over the years, many of my clients have shared that they have had dreams or visions of their loved one who died. Most shared dreaming had a healing effect on their lives and gave them comfort. Others shared that they were “reliving” the last moment often tied to...