Liza Hyatt
Liza Hyatt is a board-certified art therapist and licensed mental health counselor in Indianapolis with over 30 years of trauma-focused counseling experience. Liza is also a published poet and is adjunct faculty for the Art Therapy Master’s Degree program at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, where she teaches students depth psychology approaches to imagination.
Encountering images as alive and the imagination as healing is at the heart of Liza’s approach to art therapy, poetry, and the creative process. Liza has been engaged in her own dreamwork since 1987.
Through working on her own dreams with a Natural Dreamwork practitioner, Liza has found this method of dreamwork to be an essential practice that softens reactive ego defenses and frees us to live with more authentic belonging.
Liza has provided art therapy in a domestic violence shelter, a low-income women’s counseling center, a cancer hospital, and an eating disorder treatment center.
As a Natural Dreamwork practitioner, Liza assists dreamers to compassionately welcome and learn from the images sent by soul to help us heal.
Blog Posts by Liza Hyatt
The Difference Between Making Progress And Being Born
Dreamwork can be a challenging spiritual practice that invites our humility. All true spiritual practices ask us to let go of our previous notions of “progress” and to continue the path without measuring the journey by those egoic standards of success. Within my desire for dreams to “show I am healing” there are some valid needs, and a lot of misperceptions.
Patched And Loved — The Upholstery Kitten
As an expressive arts therapist, I experienced other Gestalt approaches that bring to life and dialogue with imagery, so I was expecting the 5-D work to feel somewhat familiar. Yet, I anticipated that the fully embodied 5-D work would be much more vulnerable than a Zoom dream session in which I can feel somewhat shielded by the laptop screen.
Tending Dreams Through Art-Making
I bring my training as an art therapist to my Natural Dreamwork practice. Art therapy and Natural Dreamwork both recognize that the primary imagination gives us images saturated with feeling and that healing emerges when we let go our ego-defenses and allow these feeling-images to penetrate us.