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Our Associates
We have a fabulous group of associates working with the practice, providing a diverse array of services. Some of them are working toward LPC licensure under Dr. Sparrow's supervision (as LPC-Associates), and some are fully licensed LPC's, having completed their supervision under Dr. Sparrow. Please review their profiles and let us know who you'd like to work with!
Julie Sparrow
Julie Sparrow is our Practice Manager. Her vast organizational skills are widely recognized. She served as the Project Director of DreamStar Free Online Counseling, and as a Board member and Volunteer Coordinator for the International Association for the Study of Dreams for several years. Julie manages our insurance billing and electronic medical records system, and oversees Dr. Sparrow's supervision practice, too. She will help you schedule your first appointment, as well as to research your insurance coverage, if any.
Dr. Gregory Scott Sparrow
Dr. Sparrow is a full Professor in Counseling (recently retired), and has taught at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley since 2005. He is a Research Faculty member of Atlantic University. He is also a past President and Board Chair of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), and has served in a variety of volunteer positions for IASD.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor and an LPC-Supervisor in Texas, Scott has been in private practice in since 1982. He and his wife Julie founded Dreamstar Counseling and Supervision in McAllen, Texas. During the pandemic, he and Julie started DreamStar Free Online Counseling, which provided services for the public during a time of the pandemic. It continued, and was formally adopted by UTRGV, and renamed Online Training and Research Clinic in counseling. He continued to oversee OTRC until his retirement from UTRGV this year.
Dr. Sparrow specializes in existential, Jungian, systemic, and transpersonal approaches to therapy, and has developed an innovative approach to dream work based on his lucid dream research, called the FiveStar Method. He is founder of DreamStar Institute, which offers mentoring and certification in dream analysis for laypersons and clinicians. He also co-hosts the DreamStar Community, which offers courses and webinars on dream analysis. He wrote the early classic, Lucid Dreaming: Dawning of the Clear Light, and has also authored several articles and home-study courses in the field of dream theory and dream analysis.
Dr. Sparrow also supervises LPC-Associates as they accrue their hours for full licensure. Many of the LPC-As also see clients within the practice, and have their own web pages here.
He has lectured and taught courses across the U.S. on such topics as meditation, spiritual experiences, and dream work methods. He is a student of Jungian psychology, East-West spiritual traditions, and Christian mysticism. For several years, he made a study of the "Christ encounter," which is the visionary or dream experience of meeting Christ face-to-face. A book on this research titled, I Am With You Always: True Stories of Encounters With Jesus–a Barnes and Noble bestseller, Book of the Month selection, and Quality Paperback selection–that was published by Bantam in 1995. Similarly, he subsequently wrote a book about dreams and visions of Mary, titled Blessed Among Women: Encounters with Mary and Her Message (Crown, 1997). He is also author of Sacred Encounters with Jesus (Ave Maria, 2002), Sacred Encounters with Mary (Ave Maria, 2003), Healing the Fisher King: A Fly Fisher's Grail Quest (BlueMantle, 2009), and The Blue Ornament (BlueMantle, 2014).
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Our Associates
We have a fabulous group of associates working with the practice, providing a diverse array of services. Some of them are working toward LPC licensure under Dr. Sparrow's supervision (as LPC-Associates), and some are fully licensed LPC's, having completed their supervision under Dr. Sparrow. Please review their profiles and let us know who you'd like to work with!
Julie Sparrow
Dr. Gregory Scott Sparrow
Dr. Sparrow is a full Professor in Counseling (recently retired), and has taught at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley since 2005. He is a Research Faculty member of Atlantic University. He is also a past President and Board Chair of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), and has served in a variety of volunteer positions for IASD.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor and an LPC-Supervisor in Texas, Scott has been in private practice in since 1982. He and his wife Julie founded Dreamstar Counseling and Supervision in McAllen, Texas. During the pandemic, he and Julie started DreamStar Free Online Counseling, which provided services for the public during a time of the pandemic. It continued, and was formally adopted by UTRGV, and renamed Online Training and Research Clinic in counseling. He continued to oversee OTRC until his retirement from UTRGV this year.
Dr. Sparrow specializes in existential, Jungian, systemic, and transpersonal approaches to therapy, and has developed an innovative approach to dream work based on his lucid dream research, called the FiveStar Method. He is founder of DreamStar Institute, which offers mentoring and certification in dream analysis for laypersons and clinicians. He also co-hosts the DreamStar Community, which offers courses and webinars on dream analysis. He wrote the early classic, Lucid Dreaming: Dawning of the Clear Light, and has also authored several articles and home-study courses in the field of dream theory and dream analysis.
Dr. Sparrow also supervises LPC-Associates as they accrue their hours for full licensure. Many of the LPC-As also see clients within the practice, and have their own web pages here.
He has lectured and taught courses across the U.S. on such topics as meditation, spiritual experiences, and dream work methods. He is a student of Jungian psychology, East-West spiritual traditions, and Christian mysticism. For several years, he made a study of the "Christ encounter," which is the visionary or dream experience of meeting Christ face-to-face. A book on this research titled, I Am With You Always: True Stories of Encounters With Jesus–a Barnes and Noble bestseller, Book of the Month selection, and Quality Paperback selection–that was published by Bantam in 1995. Similarly, he subsequently wrote a book about dreams and visions of Mary, titled Blessed Among Women: Encounters with Mary and Her Message (Crown, 1997). He is also author of Sacred Encounters with Jesus (Ave Maria, 2002), Sacred Encounters with Mary (Ave Maria, 2003), Healing the Fisher King: A Fly Fisher's Grail Quest (BlueMantle, 2009), and The Blue Ornament (BlueMantle, 2014).