After earning a Masters of Art Therapy from The George Washington University in 2006, I worked with children and adolescents with a history of trauma and substance abuse on an inpatient psychiatric ward in a metropolitan city. My parents’ divorce impacted our family and was our first encounter with a counselor. I found counseling offered new insights in a safe space for healing. I can help others in healing through my training as a counselor.
As an artist, I experience creative blocks. Art therapy helps to open oneself to the creative process and unblock barriers to creativity. I lead 8-12-week Creativity Recovery Workshops that help artists identify and overcome blocks to creativity.
I experienced the loss of a friend to cancer in my 30’s. As I recall her strong presence and celebrated her life, at the time I needed support of friends and a counselor to process my grief. Before and since, I have experienced deaths of friends and family members and leaned into practices of grief from Grief Share. I co-facilitated Grief Share, http://www.griefshare.org, a 13-week support group for those who are grieving loss.
In the past, I have offered a memory care art group for adults diagnosed with Dementia. I have supported and counseled women who experienced Post-Partum Depression and Psychosis. I have offered art therapy to adolescents with special needs and learning disabilities, and at-risk youth. In my previous career as a special educator, I earned graduate credits of Special Education and taught in an elementary Special Education Classroom.
A HISTORY OF NEW CREATIONS COUNSELING AND ART THERAPY
In 2012, New Creations Counseling and Art Therapy was established to help people to heal from pain, identify hope, and envision plans for the future. There seemed to be a need for Christians providing counseling services in Washington D.C. In 2020, I relocated to Wyoming to host counseling sessions and art therapy retreats.
One inspiration for this service has been, "To comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve, to bestow on them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor." Isaiah 61: 2-3
As an artist, I experience creative blocks. Art therapy helps to open oneself to the creative process and unblock barriers to creativity. I lead 8-12-week Creativity Recovery Workshops that help artists identify and overcome blocks to creativity.
I experienced the loss of a friend to cancer in my 30’s. As I recall her strong presence and celebrated her life, at the time I needed support of friends and a counselor to process my grief. Before and since, I have experienced deaths of friends and family members and leaned into practices of grief from Grief Share. I co-facilitated Grief Share, http://www.griefshare.org, a 13-week support group for those who are grieving loss.
In the past, I have offered a memory care art group for adults diagnosed with Dementia. I have supported and counseled women who experienced Post-Partum Depression and Psychosis. I have offered art therapy to adolescents with special needs and learning disabilities, and at-risk youth. In my previous career as a special educator, I earned graduate credits of Special Education and taught in an elementary Special Education Classroom.
A HISTORY OF NEW CREATIONS COUNSELING AND ART THERAPY
In 2012, New Creations Counseling and Art Therapy was established to help people to heal from pain, identify hope, and envision plans for the future. There seemed to be a need for Christians providing counseling services in Washington D.C. In 2020, I relocated to Wyoming to host counseling sessions and art therapy retreats.
One inspiration for this service has been, "To comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve, to bestow on them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor." Isaiah 61: 2-3
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