The Face of COVID: Finding Clarity through Creativity
This is an opportunity to gain real tools AND have a creative experience in what we call a 'therapeutic psycho-educational framework.' This means that you get the benefit of the therapists' experience, in an educational framework that encourages self-exploration. You are the one who decides 'how deep' you go. The creative experience alone has healing aspects, and we believe that simply participating will be of benefit. This isn't group therapy, and you get to choose how much or little and in what ways you interact with the facilitating therapist and other group members. Your choice will be supported by the structure and boundaries created by each therapist.
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Meet the Therapists
Jo Ann Kaminsky, MEd, LPC, ATR-BC, RPT-S
Jo Ann Kaminsky wears many hats as an art and play therapist, artist and puppeteer. For 30 years she has maintained her private counseling practice, helping individuals to heal from trauma, depression, anxiety as well as other life issues. Through the Art Experience, Inc, where she is the program director, she leads art therapy groups, working in many media, and facilitates community creative work through Puppets in the Park. In her mask group she has found the power of puppets and masks to allow for a multisensory experience, using visual arts, story-telling, drama and movement to work through the harder things in life. Jo Ann has been making art for 45 years and likes to learn new things. Currently she is learning to carve wooden puppets.
Dreama Phoenix MA, ATR-BC
Dreama Phoenix is fascinated with the healing power of image-making and finds great joy in creating cutout images with handmade paper from Nepal. She's a credentialed art therapist with 35 years in private practice in NW Arkansas focused on women's issues and helping people cope with the effects of posttraumatic stress, grief and chronic illness. Dreama is proud to be a Work That Reconnects facilitator, offering her community Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects in IntuitEarth Deep Ecology workshops. Her Whitebear Studio is the home of IntuitArt process painting workshops, ElderArt Home-based Art Therapy, and Whitebear Creativity Coaching. She walks daily in the woods above the Little Buffalo River in Jasper and practices Surat Shabda Yoga.
Lauren Levine MA, EXAT, LPC
Lauren Levine is a psychotherapist with a background in performance arts and a masters degree in Expressive Arts therapies which integrates principles of creativity, imagination, attunement, embodiment, performance, expression, and experience. Lauren has been working as a therapist for over 25 years in both Canada and the US. She is a co-founder of the Bentonville Counseling Collective in NWArkansas. A unique model of group practice that values collaboration and support amongst colleagues. Lauren has focused on being a helper to helpers which is more important now than it has ever been. Lauren is dedicated to her own personal and artistic growth.