Today on the podcast we are joined by Lindsey Sherwin. Lindsey is a professional actress, youth and family therapist. She employs therapeutic drama, expressive arts, and counseling techniques to work with adolescents, families, artists, and creative entrepreneurs to resolve problems, make new choices, and expand their creativity throughout all areas of their lives.
She continues to train as a Registered Drama Therapist in community mental health. She has worked with several non-profit organizations based in the United States and Europe, to address mental and behavioral health through the expressive arts, specifically through drama and poetry writing.
Lindsey is the creator and founder of You Are The Shift, LLC, an expressive arts therapies empowerment-based consulting company, and Shift’s coaching platform Shift.It coaching for artists, actors, and creatives.
She earned her BA in Arts and Humanities from University College London, a Master of Social Science in Applied Sociology, Community Studies, and Social Welfare from Birkbeck, University of London, and certificate courses in Psychology from Brigham Young University and Drama and the Creative Arts Therapies from the Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles.
Show Notes:
(00:04:38) Who is Lindsey and what does she do?
(00:07:54) What drew Lindsey to the performing arts?
(00:10:30) Psychodrama and Theater of Spontaneity
(00:13:39) Example of Psychodrama
(00:16:16) Action Methods
(00:20:31) Thoughts on isolation
(00:23:35) Connecting through technology and silver linings
(00:25:36) Letting yourself grow
(00:31:47) How do you respond to difficult situations?
(00:34:19) Releasing stress or tension
(00:36:31) Rescripting
(00:39:27) Aldred Adler and Individual Psychology
(00:43:18) Being a professional and responsibility
(00:47:56) A problem with vision
(00:49:16) Knowing your limits on what you are qualified to help with
(00:53:13) Finding the root cause
(00:56:14) Helping artist share their stories
(00:57:44) How would you help someone find their footing?
(01:03:38) Lindsey's Vision
(01:06:38) Where to connect with Lindsey
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