Beyond Artist's Block

Beyond Artist's Block is focused on therapy and the creative community. Mental health is an important and sometimes overlooked aspect of making art. We're here to help writers, artists, musicians, dancers, and creatives of all kinds feel supported and understood. Join host Rachel Moore, LMFT, and her guests and feel inspired today! Disclaimer: This podcast 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.

Dr. Ofelia Tatu: How Creativity Can Help Us Return to Ourselves 04/05/2024

Zach Meyer: How Our Stories Energize Music and Therapy 03/29/2024

Zach Meyer: How Our Stories Energize Music and Therapy 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 full-length album last summer. At the intersection of these two interests lie Zach's greatest passion: the relationship between art-making and our mental health. He and his wife — a psychologist — have a private therapy practice in the Milwaukee area. When not doing therapy or making music, Zach is probably hanging out with his wife, three kids and two dogs, or working on the restoration of their historic 1913 home. SHOW TOPICS Doing preventative work with teenagers while they’re in a more malleable stage of life The power of stories in therapy and music making Helping teenagers discover their own narrative to uncover their goals, passions, and intrinsic values beyond what outside sources are telling them to believe Striving to take the pressure off artists so they can create something meaningful in the moment SHOW LINKS Zach Meyer Learn more about Zach’s therapy practice at Discover more about Zach’s music and studio work at TikTok and Instagram: @zachmeyermusic SUPPORT THE SHOW Rate & review on Apple Podcasts Sign up for our newsletter Check out our merch Disclaimer 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. /episode/index/show/aed52c89-baf5-49bd-a687-956cfbbd545f/id/30259113

Dr. Madeline Ofina: How Now Is the Time to Decolonize Therapy 03/22/2024

Kristy Snedden: How Poetry Opens Doors to Healing 03/15/2024

Kristy Snedden: How Poetry Opens Doors to Healing 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 Creative Writing. In her spare time Kristy is a poet, and her poetry appears or is forthcoming in a variety of national and international online and print journals and anthologies. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2023 recipient of the Small Orange Press Emerging Woman Poet prize. She serves as the Book Review Editor for Anti-Heroin Chic and studies at Phillip Schulz’s Writers Studio. When not working or writing, she can be found hiking or hanging out with her husband listening to their dogs tell tall tales. SHOW TOPICS How Brainspotting helped Kristy open up her creativity and strengthen her determination to help clients unlock their creativity as well Encouraging Brainspotting clients to get curious, compassionate, and nonjudgmental What it’s like doing Brainspotting with kids Busting myths around what it’s like to work with creative clients SHOW LINKS Kristy Snedden Contact Kristy at Join Kristy’s “Brainspotting My (True) Story” workshop at the Rocky Mountain Brainspotting Institute on March 22, 2024 Follow Kristy on Instagram @kristy_snedden_poetry SUPPORT THE SHOW Rate & review on Apple Podcasts Sign up for our newsletter Check out our merch Disclaimer 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. /episode/index/show/aed52c89-baf5-49bd-a687-956cfbbd545f/id/30258968

Barry Hill: How Collaboration Paves the Way in Music & Therapy 03/08/2024

Barry Hill: How Collaboration Paves the Way in Music & Therapy 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 acoustic singer songwriter. He recently completed an album of original acoustic material. He is now 74 years old and the name of the new album is "74." He performs around San Diego, mostly at songwriter showcases and circles. He also sometimes performs with his multi-talented musician son, Matthew Hill. Barry tells us he is filled with gratitude for his "place in the world" at this time of his life. SHOW TOPICS Bringing an interactive and collaborative approach to educating and training new therapists What to do or say when we don’t know what comes next in the therapy room The freedom and out-of-the-box nature of working with “difficult” clients Shifting to focusing on solutions rather than problems in therapy by asking clients who they want to become and what small steps they can take to achieve that SHOW LINKS Barry Hill Contact Barry at b9hill(at)gmail.com SUPPORT THE SHOW Rate & review on Apple Podcasts Sign up for our newsletter Check out our merch Disclaimer 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. /episode/index/show/aed52c89-baf5-49bd-a687-956cfbbd545f/id/29910013

Laura Lewis-Barr: How Fairy Tales Unveil the Human Experience 03/01/2024

Clarissa Castillo-Ramsey: How to Paint Your Path to a Life You Love 02/23/2024

Tracy Taris: How to Keep Your Creativity Front and Center 02/16/2024

Dr. Ericha Scott: How Therapy Can Be a Mystical Experience 02/09/2024

Jackie Schuld: How Autism and Innovation Go Hand in Hand 02/02/2024

Dr. Eric Maisel: How Art and Creativity Speak Truth to Power 01/05/2024

Anna Hindell: How Being in the Here and Now Helps Make Us Whole 12/29/2023

Kristen Rashid: How Art Therapy Can Benefit Everyone 12/22/2023

Bridget Steed: How to Protect Our Precious Creative Cargo 12/15/2023

Sara Montague Miller: How Both Photography and Therapy Help Us See Ourselves 12/08/2023

Annabelle Coote: How Baby Steps Lead to Big Changes in Therapy 12/01/2023

Annabelle Coote: How Baby Steps Lead to Big Changes in Therapy Today’s Guest: Annabelle Coote, MA, LMHC, BC-DMT, is a licensed mental health therapist, certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, and board-certified dance/movement therapist based in Massachusetts. She has more than 25 years’ experience using somatic, creative, and experiential approaches. At Mind Body Matters, Annabelle offers consultation and training for therapists who want to develop their clinical work using mind, body, and creativity. In her private practice, Movement Matters Integrative Psychotherapy, she specializes in anxiety, trauma, women’s issues, life transitions, and cultivating creativity. Annabelle has authored book chapters on depression and trauma using embodied and creative approaches in therapy and telehealth and has presented at numerous conferences. Annabelle is known for her deep compassion, humor, quirky metaphors, spontaneous creativity, ability to simplify complex concepts, and the conviction that profound transformation happens in tiny steps. SHOW TOPICS Aspiring for groundedness amidst the messiness of life and therapy How imposter syndrome and the pressure to know everything can derail our work and creativity Taking risks in the therapy room to help clients become unstuck and turn off their “autopilot” responses Practicing the entire spectrum of nonviolence as a therapist and eliminating negative or adversarial vocabulary from the therapeutic lexicon SHOW LINKS Annabelle Coote Facebook: Private practice: Facebook group: LinkedIn: Instagram: annabelle_coote Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy — and What You Can Do About It by Resmaa Menakem SUPPORT THE SHOW Rate & review on Apple Podcasts Sign up for our newsletter DisclaimerBeyond 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. /episode/index/show/aed52c89-baf5-49bd-a687-956cfbbd545f/id/28773448

Katie Curran: How Creativity Helps Us Move Through Grief and Life 11/24/2023

Sandy Cohen: How Finding the Right Path Makes All the Difference 11/17/2023

Julia Vering: How Expression and Fun Help Facilitate Healing 11/10/2023

Julia Vering: How Expression and Fun Help Facilitate Healing Today’s Guest: Julia Vering, LSCSW, LCSW, REAT, is a performance artist and musician, licensed clinical social worker, and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist based in Kansas City. She has integrated the arts into social work for 20 years, centering her practice in joy, humor, imagination, and the strengths perspective. She has received grants from The Charlotte Street Foundation and Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts for her community-based performance work involving collaborations with older adults and people with neurocognitive disorders. She also tours and releases albums as “Unicorns in the Snow,” a performance art project that integrates interactive projections, stop-motion animation, and original music. Vering has worked in hospice and long-term care settings for the past 17 years. She opened her private practice, Expressive Arts Therapy KC, in 2022. She became the first Registered Expressive Arts Therapist in the state of Kansas in 2023 and serves as the Kansas State coordinator for the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. Vering integrates expressive arts, psychodrama and EMDR into her practice, and is currently creating a workbook and film on performance art interventions for people with neurocognitive disorders. SHOW TOPICS Finding liberation and community through "weird" and "quirky" art forms The symbiotic relationship between art and therapy Facilitating healing and rehumanizing activities for patients and families in long-term care facilities through silliness and fun SHOW LINKS Julie Vering Under the Cover of Kindness: The Invention of Social Work Expressive Therapies Summit — November 16-19 including a workshop with Julie on Nov. 17: "Multimodal Video Improv for Expression, Inclusion & Joy with Older Adults and Others" SUPPORT THE SHOW Rate & review on Apple Podcasts Sign up for our newsletter DisclaimerBeyond 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. /episode/index/show/aed52c89-baf5-49bd-a687-956cfbbd545f/id/28570983

Elizabeth Davis: How to Invite All of Our Parts to the Party 11/03/2023

Phil Hartman: How Students Find Safety and Belonging in the Arts 10/06/2023

Sarah Mathews: How to Be Compassionately Curious in Life and Therapy 09/29/2023

Kelly Hutton: How There Are No Mistakes in Art 09/22/2023

Valerie Ellis: How an Artist Alchemizes Creativity and Psychology 09/15/2023

Dr. Jamie Marich: How Art and Vulnerability Can Unveil Pathways to Healing 09/08/2023

Dr. Jamie Marich: How Art and Vulnerability Can Unveil Pathways to Healing Today’s Guest: Dr. Jamie Marich began her career as a humanitarian aid worker in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 2000 to 2003, primarily teaching English and music. Jamie now travels internationally teaching on topics related to trauma, EMDR therapy, expressive arts, mindfulness, and yoga, while maintaining a private practice and online education operations in her home base of Akron, OH. She is the founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness approach to expressive arts therapy. She is also the author of several books, including EMDR Made Simple: 4 Approaches for Using EMDR with Every Client (2011), Creative Mindfulness (2013), Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation (2015), and Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery (2019). Her latest release, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life, came out in January 2023. She also has three more projects in the works, including her personal memoir about surviving spiritual abuse called You Lied to Me About God, due out in Autumn 2024. She has been featured in several publications, including The New York Times and the Huffington Post, as well as receiving several awards for her advocacy work. SHOW TOPICS The reasons people may be scared of creativity and how to encourage them through that fear The beauty of grounding in EMDR techniques while also finding room for expression and adaptation How creative clients can find a therapist who is a great fit for them As a therapist, how much should we reveal about ourselves to clients and in public forums? Breaking the stigma around mental illness as therapists by finding and accepting support for ourselves within the therapeutic community SHOW LINKS Dr. Jamie Marich for resources and Jamie’s most recent book, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Daily Life SUPPORT THE SHOW Rate & review on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-artists-block/id1636767361 Buy Us a Paintbrush! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/babblers Disclaimer 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. /episode/index/show/aed52c89-baf5-49bd-a687-956cfbbd545f/id/27968949

Tracy Sondern & Alyce Waxman: How to Stay Creatively Engaged at Any Age 09/01/2023

Tracy Sondern & Alyce Waxman: How to Stay Creatively Engaged at Any Age Today’s Guests: Tracy Sondern is a therapist and creator of the group Ageism and the Creative Professional. She spent over 30 years working in the world of fashion, celebrity and advertising photography in both New York and Los Angeles. Much of that time was spent as the creative partner to her husband, a successful photographer. Her interest in therapy for creatives stems from supporting her husband through the emotional ups and downs of the business, through several reinventions, and helping him stay creatively alive. Alyce Waxman is currently training for licensure as a Marriage and Family Therapist and Professional Clinical Counselor at Southern California Counseling Center, where she sees individuals as well as run two groups: Ageism and the Creative Professional and the Relational and Support Group. She is earning her master's degree at Antioch University in Los Angeles and also holds degrees in art history from Carleton College in Minnesota and graphic design from Parsons in New York City. Prior to training to become a therapist, she had a 25-year career as a creative director for brands. Alyce is interested in working with the creative population as well as work that is collaborative and relational. As a former creative professional herself, she can relate to the unique needs of a creative. SHOW TOPICS The effects of aging on creatives’ identity and self-worth Facing the prevalence of ageism in creative industries The power of collaboration and community to inspire and uplift Similarities between the creative process and the therapeutic process SHOW LINKS Tracy Sondern You can find more info about the Ageism and the Creative Professional group under the Services section of Tracy’s website Alyce Waxman hello(at)alycewaxman.com SUPPORT THE SHOW Rate & review on Apple Podcasts Buy Us a Paintbrush! Disclaimer 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. /episode/index/show/aed52c89-baf5-49bd-a687-956cfbbd545f/id/27867108

Dr. Reji Mathew: How to Harness the Power of Therapeutic Play 08/25/2023

Dr. Reji Mathew: How to Harness the Power of Therapeutic Play Today’s Guest: Dr. Reji Mathew is an award-winning intermodal artist, thinker, neuroscience-informed psychotherapist, expressive arts therapist, advocate, and educator. Her therapeutic expressive arts philosophy is grounded in the narratology-narrative therapy lens. Her understanding of a person begins in the context of time, place, and culture. This intersects with a commitment to understanding people's complex identities, including class, culture, location, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and accessibility. She is an arts reporter for Disastershock.com, a humanitarian psychological first aid organization. In this activism series, she interviews global innovative expressive arts advocates on the power of the arts in healing and restoring communities in the aftermath of trauma. She is also an arts accessibility advocate and partners with Anti-Racist Art Teachers (ARAT) and the Rockland Conservatory of Music (RCM). SHOW TOPICS Finding a lifelong allyship with the arts integration for physical and mental health & resilience Breaking down what thinking and living intermodally is to help clients better cultivate their expressive range and process complex emotions Using the power of therapeutic play to bring clients into the here-and-now Advocating for inclusion and accessibility paths toward the arts SHOW LINKS Dr.Reji Mathew Disastershock Anti Racist Art Teachers The Creative Growth Arts Center SUPPORT THE SHOW Rate & review on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-artists-block/id1636767361 Buy Us a Paintbrush! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/babblers Disclaimer 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. /episode/index/show/aed52c89-baf5-49bd-a687-956cfbbd545f/id/27822048

Dr. Kirsten Ramey: How Authenticity Leads to Healing in the Therapy Room 08/18/2023

Ruby Rose Fox: How a Healthy Nervous System Is the Key to Creativity 08/11/2023

Eric Tivers: How ADHD Intertwines With Creativity 08/04/2023