Private Practice

Individual and Group

 As human beings, everyone has the right to make his or her “mark”- one no one else could make. We all need to make this mark because each creative mark reaffirms the self: It says, “I am here”; “ I have something to express.”

 * Using the concepts of Expressive Therapy I combine traditional verbal processing and the intentional use of creative arts to promote healing and well-being those with physical and emotional issues

* Combining art, music, writing and dance training with my academic experience and clinical training in psychology I create simple structures and a holistic healing process that furthers the emotional, physical and spiritual integration of the individual and/or group.

 * I provide a creative lens on the healing process for people on a healing journey with cancer and other major illnesses.

 * I help individuals and families with end of life issues… To have a “good death.”

 * Through the arts and the individual’s act of creation, I help the individual engage the emotions, free the spirit, and help in experiencing and discover the symbols for growth, which help us through change, conflict and transition.

 * I will assist you to push against your limits, be inventive, break down boundaries and reject accepted assumptions and offer you chance to recognize the limitations of your way of looking at the world. Creativity is the ability to bring something new and different into existence: it may be combining something in a new way, or revealing something previously hidden.

 May we creatively approach both life and death with, spontaneity, adaptability, flexibility, wonder and imagination., if not excitement and independence.. These elements of creativity may be keys to a successful kife and a good death.

 By engaging in creative, aesthetic experiences the individual has the opportunity to integrate mind and body; sensation, emotion, image and thought. This type of experience offers an enriched physical and emotional way of being in the present moment

Link: http://www.artsintherapy.com/whatis.asp?id=269

Further thoughts…

 Change and Transition

How do we do change?

I will help you create a “practice of change”.

How do we change and transition?

How do even know what it means to change?

Let go? Move on? Live with? Tolerate? Shift? Become who I am?

Be Present?

I will guide you in discovering a practice which bridges the three levels of response, the mind the heart and the body.

Available at each session will be art supplies and mediums, writing material, writing prompts, music from a 10,000 song play list, and space to dance, move, embody your practice of change and transition. Using art, writing, movement, visualizations and mantras from your own inner wisdom you will discover and create a practice, daily or otherwise…,

 Transition from one way of being to another, meek to confident, cerebral to sensual, from one job to another, from relationship to yourself or another relationship, from parent to grandparent, wife to widow or divorcee, to living ones death, life to death.

       Something’s got to change.  This isn’t working for me.  I don’t want t do this anymore.

       How long is this going to last? You are becoming aware.

Do you believe with awareness comes choice?The problem might occur when we acknowledge the concern or just ask a question but never pursue a change or an answer. How might we just assume this is just the way it is.

 What if you have gotten to a place ,

A place of being connected, if only by a nagging feeling,

to a necessary shift or change or transition

from being one way

to another way

 which you assess

to be more healthy and loving and kind.

Practice Change.

Practice in the safe arms of the Expressive Arts Therapy structures.