Katie Curran: How Creativity Helps Us Move Through Grief and Life
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Dr. Ofelia Tatu: How Creativity Can Help Us Return to Ourselves
Beyond Artist's Block
Today’s Guest: Dr. Ofelia Tatu, PhD, is a psychotherapist and life coach based in Yukon, Canada. She is also a Brainspotting therapist and consultant and is certified in Integrative Medicine & Functional Nutrition for Mental Health. Dr. Tatu has over 15 years of experience in psychology and teaching, and her main areas of expertise are performance (sports, athletes, and artists) and chronic conditions such as autoimmunity. She works with adults, teens, children, and babies. SHOW TOPICS The artistic persona and how it affects our sense of self The protective walls that we build...
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Zach Meyer: How Our Stories Energize Music and Therapy
Beyond Artist's Block
Today’s Guest: Zach Meyer, MA, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor who likes to say he has worked with students since he was one himself. From coaching high schoolers and working as a camp counselor to clinical positions in inpatient and outpatient settings, Zach has spent his career supporting teenagers and young adults to navigate the many challenges that accompany this developmental stage. Zach has also spent his life in the arts, growing up in choirs and theater productions from grade school through college. He continues to write and record music, and he released his first...
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Dr. Madeline Ofina: How Now Is the Time to Decolonize Therapy
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Today’s Guest: Dr. Madeline Ofina is a speaker, community educator, Clinical Psychologist, and Mental Health Consultant. Her training focused on program evaluation, the Wellness and Recovery model of mental health, and serious, persistent mental illness. After her clinical training and work in the hospital system, she realigned her work and decolonized her mind and practice through training and studying decolonizing mental health and liberation psychology. She founded MO-fina Wellness and Education, an education and spiritual business, and separately owns a Private Practice working with...
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Kristy Snedden: How Poetry Opens Doors to Healing
Beyond Artist's Block
Today’s Guest: Kristy Snedden, LCSW, has been a Brainspotting enthusiast since 2013 and is a Brainspotting consultant with a specialty endorsement in Brainspotting with children and adolescents. She runs “Brainspotting Through the Poet’s Eye” which is a monthly group for Brainspotting therapists/writers and offers online webinars and writing retreats. Kristy lives in the Appalachian Mountains of northeast Georgia where she maintains a full-time private practice. She specializes in working with trauma, attachment, and creativity, with a special interest in Brainspotting and...
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Barry Hill: How Collaboration Paves the Way in Music & Therapy
Beyond Artist's Block
Today’s Guest: Barry Hill is a now kinda retired LMFT clinician and Rady Children's Hospital AAMFT-certified Clinical Supervisor. He was adjunct faculty at San Diego State University in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology for eleven years. He has had over 500 counseling students and trained 70 MFT and Psychology interns. His speciality is Post-Modern approaches to Family Therapy. He has always played guitar, composed, and sung in some format. From early bluegrass bands, through electric blues and hard rock in the 1970s and '80s to original indie rock in the 2010s to now...
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Laura Lewis-Barr: How Fairy Tales Unveil the Human Experience
Beyond Artist's Block
Today’s Guest: Laura Lewis-Barr was a graduate student in clinical psychology but eventually switched majors and earned her M.A. in theatre. In 2019 Laura began making stop motion films focused on fairy tales. Laura is now an award-winning filmmaker and educator. Her focus is on animating fairy tales and mythic stories for personal and collective transformation. She is inspired by the works of ML Von Franz, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, and Michael Meade. Laura's films are made in her basement in Chicago, and her screening events are filled with heart and questions for the soul. SHOW...
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Clarissa Castillo-Ramsey: How to Paint Your Path to a Life You Love
Beyond Artist's Block
Today’s Guest: Dr. Clarissa Castillo-Ramsey is a multi-passionate creative (abstract artist, transformational coach, author, podcaster, and organizational psychologist). The heart of her work beats at the intersection of leadership development, creativity, and wellness. Through her 5-step framework, she empowers individuals to "paint their path." SHOW TOPICS The 5 steps to Painting Your Path Clarissa’s experience with spasmodic dysphonia and how the voice condition has affected her sense of identity The power of staying curious and continuing to learn SHOW LINKS Clarissa...
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Tracy Taris: How to Keep Your Creativity Front and Center
Beyond Artist's Block
Today’s Guest: Tracy Taris is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Azusa Pacific University. She owns a group private practice where she and her team provide individual, couples, and family counseling in person and via telehealth. Tracy is the author of Many Voices One Truth, published by Winged Publications. In the book, Tracy shows readers how to differentiate between voices that compete for our attention. She uses psychotherapy techniques and meditative and prayer practices to teach readers how to calm the mind and tune into...
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Dr. Ericha Scott: How Therapy Can Be a Mystical Experience
Beyond Artist's Block
Today’s Guest: For 39 years, Dr. Ericha Scott has treated people struggling with substance and behavioral use disorders, mental illness, trauma and dissociation. She has also worked with victims of torture and sex trafficking. As a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and certified Creative and Expressive Arts Psychotherapist, Dr. Scott has dedicated her life to health, wellness, and art as medicine. This work has included academic and experiential teaching for clinicians, doctors, the public, and herself, relevant to her own personal health journey. She describes herself as “a healer...
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Jackie Schuld: How Autism and Innovation Go Hand in Hand
Beyond Artist's Block
Today’s Guest: Jackie Schuld is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Board-Certified Art Therapist, and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist. She owns a private practice that specializes in late-identified autism (Jackie is autistic and ADHD). She is the author and illustrator of Therapy Private Practice, Grief is a Mess, and Making it Through Chemotherapy. While Jackie values her professional work, what she really wants people to know is that she is a human first. She loves waking up early and writing, taking naps, creating art, venturing into nature, doing puzzles, spending time with her...
info_outlineToday’s Guest: Katie Curran, MA, LMHCA, is a licensed mental health counseling associate located in Spokane, WA. She specializes in working with young adults, artists, grief, witchy folks, and identity/purpose struggles. She utilizes art, ritual, normalization, and alternative approaches to meet individuals where they’re at, recognizing that counseling is definitely not “one size fits all.”
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Identifying the “language” we speak and using that language through therapy to be our most authentic selves
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Fostering empathy for and humanizing people who are incarcerated and those facing addiction
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The effect of grief on blocking the creative process, and how our art and soul co-conspire to help us face things directly
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Seeing art-making as a somatic methodology for moving trauma through the body
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Katie Curran
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Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power by Carolyn Elliott PhD
https://www.amazon.com/Existential-Kink-Unmask-Embrace-getting/dp/1578636477
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748
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Beyond Artist's Block represents the opinions of its host and guests and is not meant as a substitute for therapy. It is for informational and educational purposes only. Please reach out to your healthcare provider with any specific questions you may have.