Emery Hurst Mikel, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT, LPAT is the founder and director of Water & Stone, a Creative Arts Therapy PLLC and Firefly & Phoenix LLC, a company for professionals interested in entrepreneurial coaching.
Water & Stone is currently comprised of an extraordinary group of women who offer creative arts therapy and wellness coaching to individual clients and groups. In her therapy work, Emery focuses on women’s issues, grief and loss, end of life, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, as well as caregiver burnout. W&S grew out of Emery’s experiences living and working in Colorado, Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Long Island, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. To help other therapists interested in similar work she authored The Art of Business: A Guide for Creative Arts Therapists… (JKP, 2013) which focuses on contracting and business basics.
Firefly & Phoenix has programs and 1:1 mentoring for those embarking on or journeying through the adventure that is self-employment/private practice. This grew out of the ever-evolving world Emery has created to help professionals in the healing and wellness industries create the work they dream of and along those lines she is currently working on her second book focused more specifically on private practice and starting a company.
Along with these pursuits she mentors other therapists, offers continuing education workshops, supervises interns, guest lectures at George Washington University and is adjunct faculty at Nazareth University. She received her MA in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology: Art Therapy from Naropa University in Boulder, CO.
