tayria ward, ph.d.

depth psychologist, dream analyst, teacher, lecturer, & vision quest guide

Tayria Ward has a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology, worked for 20 years as a minister, and later taught as a professor at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She now supports people on a profound psychological and spiritual quest through dream analysis, depth psychological and spiritual mentoring, as well as through retreats, dream groups, vision quests, online classes, and regular lectures and interviews on a wide variety of subjects.

Along with her current major interest in recovering the value of working with our dreams and understanding the nature of the Dreamtime, Tayria’s doctoral work led her into a passion for the study of the ways of sensing and knowing carried by Indigenous peoples, past and present. Her dissertation is entitled Reawakening Indigenous Sensibilities in the Western Psyche.

Tayria believes our connection with the intelligent voices of the non-human world and those of the invisible world has been undervalued and often severed, to the detriment of our health psychologically, emotionally, physically, socially, and environmentally. Tayria’s work is devoted to helping recover this connection and restore this health. One of her major tools in working with individuals and groups is the messaging system found in the dreams of the night.

She has written down her own dreams and worked with them consistently since the age of 24. She has studied the world’s religions avidly, worked intensively with shamans from Africa and a variety of other traditions, studied the theories of Carl Jung for decades, including completing her doctorate in Depth Psychology, and spent many years in the analysis of her own dreams with some of the finest Jungian analysts.