Committed to enhancing lives through art experiences
I have been a professional early childhood teacher/advocate for nearly two decades and an intuitive abstract artist since I entered the world. My classrooms always hummed with creative arts as a means to explore social-emotional issues, open up difficult conversations and find our way back to the present moment. As my enthusiasm for therapeutic art grew, so did my self-awareness, insight, and personal healing.
As I continued to experience and witness art as both muse and healer, and as champion and nurturer, I became aware that it was time to shift careers so I could best help individuals and families heal and find their healing through the transformative power of art. I aim to present my clients with empowering and therapeutic experiences that honor the individual where they are while promoting safety, insight, self-care, coping skills, and resilience. To achieve my mission I have committed myself to a life full of continuing education. Knowing what I know, experienced, and witnessed, I want to be a guide and torch bearer through creative healing, joy, and empowerment.
Currently, I am perusing my Masters degree in clinical mental health counseling and focussing on research, advocacy, and policy change. I recognize that the study and practice of counseling is challenging on all levels. In order to best help others I know I must keep myself healthy, mind-body-soul. I will not only be a student and practitioner of therapeutic arts, I will remain an active participant in my own personal holistic wellness program.
In order to continue to broaden my mind and and scope, I follow organizations such as the Art Therapy Outreach Center, the Art Therapy Blog, the Trauma Therapist podcast and the Livingroom Community Art Studio. I participate in my own artistic daily self-care as well as participate in thirty to ninety day art making challenges such as the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute’s 2015 Art Therapy + Happiness Project, Be Your Own Beloved Self Love and Compassion Photo Challenge, and Woman Unleashed Retreat.
Art and art experiences are powerful healers and I testify to their affects Over the years I have learned that the question to beg is not, “why me?” but “why not?” and “where’s my paint?” With this outlook, I feel energized and excited to walk with others while they empower themselves with the transformative power of therapeutic art.
As I continued to experience and witness art as both muse and healer, and as champion and nurturer, I became aware that it was time to shift careers so I could best help individuals and families heal and find their healing through the transformative power of art. I aim to present my clients with empowering and therapeutic experiences that honor the individual where they are while promoting safety, insight, self-care, coping skills, and resilience. To achieve my mission I have committed myself to a life full of continuing education. Knowing what I know, experienced, and witnessed, I want to be a guide and torch bearer through creative healing, joy, and empowerment.
Currently, I am perusing my Masters degree in clinical mental health counseling and focussing on research, advocacy, and policy change. I recognize that the study and practice of counseling is challenging on all levels. In order to best help others I know I must keep myself healthy, mind-body-soul. I will not only be a student and practitioner of therapeutic arts, I will remain an active participant in my own personal holistic wellness program.
In order to continue to broaden my mind and and scope, I follow organizations such as the Art Therapy Outreach Center, the Art Therapy Blog, the Trauma Therapist podcast and the Livingroom Community Art Studio. I participate in my own artistic daily self-care as well as participate in thirty to ninety day art making challenges such as the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute’s 2015 Art Therapy + Happiness Project, Be Your Own Beloved Self Love and Compassion Photo Challenge, and Woman Unleashed Retreat.
Art and art experiences are powerful healers and I testify to their affects Over the years I have learned that the question to beg is not, “why me?” but “why not?” and “where’s my paint?” With this outlook, I feel energized and excited to walk with others while they empower themselves with the transformative power of therapeutic art.
