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The Creative PsychotherapistS3.16 | Reina Lombardi | Intentional PauseFEATURED GUESTS: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor. She owns Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC , a full-fee group practice, where she and a team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision, and is a frequent presenter/speaker at local and...2024-08-2920 minThe Creative PsychotherapistS3.14 | Reina Lombardi | Growth in Practice: When to Hire HelpFEATURED GUESTS: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor. She owns Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC , a full-fee group practice, where she and a team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision, and is a frequent presenter/speaker at local and...2024-05-1737 minThe Creative PsychotherapistS3E12 | Reina Lombardi | Entrepreneurial Mindset: 5 Things That Help Me Stay The Course In Rough WatersFEATURED GUESTS: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor. She owns Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC , a full-fee group practice, where she and a team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision, and is a frequent presenter/speaker at local and n...2024-04-2429 minThe Creative PsychotherapistS3.2 | Carmen Reed-Gikison | Entrepreneurship After 40: Building Your EmpireFEATURED GUESTS: Carmen Reed-Gilkison is an Online Business Manager, a Whole Person Certified Coach with over 25+ years of marketing experience, and the co-founder of Encore Empire. Carmen specializes in mindset in entrepreneurship and marketing. Carmen and her business partner, Deirdre Harter, teach their clients the business of business through their year-long coaching programs with the goal of helping ambitious women scale their service-based businesses without all the guesswork. Just as no two people are the same, no two businesses are the same. For that reason, they don’t believe in making their clients fit into cookie-cutter frameworks. They work wi...2024-01-2454 minThe Creative PsychotherapistS3.1 | Merle Yost | Powerful Boundaries in PracticeFEATURED GUESTS: In this episode of the podcast, Reina interviews Merle Yost, LMFT.
Merle is full time writer, speaker and consultant. Retired from private practice psychotherapy after 25 years, he now lectures and consults to help people make sense out of their lives and often the pain they are in, so they can move forward. With over 35 years of personal and professional work, Merle has taken the summary of his experience and training and uses it to help others.LISTEN & LEARN:
All of his books are about helping people live better lives. Merle is committed to c...2024-01-181h 00The Creative PsychotherapistS2.25 | Reina Lombardi | End of Year ReviewFEATURED GUESTS: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor. She owns Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC , a full-fee group practice, where she and a team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision, and is a frequent presenter/speaker at local and n...2023-11-2923 minThe Creative PsychotherapistS2.24 | Nicole Rainey | Running a Multidisciplinary Creative PracticeFEATURED GUESTS: Nicole Rainey is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Registered Art Therapist. She has over 10 years of experience providing therapy to children, teens, and adults recovering from trauma history, foster care and adoption concerns. Most of her clinical work has specifically focused on survivors of trauma including sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect, violence, and sex trafficking/prostitution. In 2020, Nicole started Mosaic Creative Counseling in Tallahassee Florida, a group private practice that specializes in the creative therapies: Art Therapy, Play Therapy, Music Therapy, Animal Therapy, etc. Nicole is an enneagram 7, who loves planning for future and traveling. In h...2023-11-2256 minThe Creative PsychotherapistS2.23| Maureen Clancy | Integrating Alternative Healing & Traditional Psychotherapy PracticesFEATURED GUESTS: Maureen Clancy is a licensed therapist and trauma expert for over 20 years helping women go through enormous life changes who’ve also experienced childhood trauma. She’s the creator of the Gate Passages Framework, a structured, bottom-up approach to healing trauma and going through major life changes. She’s certified in EMDR and trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (certification in progress), Internal Family Systems, and AEDP. She combines therapy with Reiki, Tarot, and flower essences. She’s a certified NASW clinical supervisor for social workers seeking advanced clinical certification and runs supervision groups for newer therapists looking to gain ski...2023-11-1558 minThe Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 2023 10| Reina Lombardi | Money, Marketing & Mindset for Private PractitionersFEATURED GUESTS: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor. She owns Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC , a full-fee group practice, where she and a team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision, and is a frequent presenter/speaker at local and n...2023-10-2539 min
The Creative Psychotherapist75. Reina Lombardi | Honoring Your Need for Time OffFEATURED GUESTS: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor practicing in Fort Myers, Florida. She is the owner of Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC where she and a small team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision, and is a frequent prese...2022-06-0811 minThe Creative Psychotherapist74. Reina Lombardi | Boundaries in BusinessFEATURED GUESTS: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor practicing in Fort Myers, Florida. She is the owner of Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC where she and a small team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision, and is a frequent prese...2022-05-2552 minThe Creative Psychotherapist73. Reina Lombardi | Ten Books to Uplevel Your Money MindsetFEATURED GUESTS: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor practicing in Fort Myers, Florida. She is the owner of Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC where she and a small team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision, and is a frequent prese...2022-05-1134 minThe Creative Psychotherapist70. Reina Lombardi | Five Things You Need to do to set up Supervision as a Service in Your PracticeFEATURED GUESTS: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor practicing in Fort Myers, Florida. She is the owner of Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC where she and a small team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision, and is a frequent prese...2022-04-2038 minThe Creative Psychotherapist69. Reina Lombardi | Benefits & Challenges to Offering Supervision as a Service in Your PracticeFEATURED GUESTS: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor practicing in Fort Myers, Florida. She is the owner of Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC where she and a small team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision, and is a frequent prese...2022-04-1335 minThe Creative Psychotherapist66. Reina Lombardi | The TOP FIVE Things I do Every Week to Set Myself Up for SuccessFEATURED GUESTS: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor practicing in Fort Myers, Florida. She is the owner of Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC where she and a small team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision, and is a frequent p...2022-03-2329 min
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 2021 8 | Stacie Yeldell | Creating Signature Interventions & Approaches to TreatmentFEATURED GUEST: Stacie Aamon Yeldell, MA, MT-BC, AVPT, is a Board Certified Music and Vocal Psychotherapist and international speaker with 15 years of experience in mental health treatment. Her transformative work was featured on CBS news, and most recently, in the docuseries “Proven.” She received a Masters degree in Music Therapy from New York University and a certification in Sound and Music Healing from the Open Center in New York. Stacie is also a Vocal Psychotherapist (AVPT), which emphasizes the use of the voice as a path to wellness and healing. She is the creator of The Amontra Mindfulness Method™, a musi...2021-08-181h 23The Creative Psychotherapist52. Elissa Arbeitman | Follow Your Energy & Intuition to Create Your Private PracticeFEATURED GUEST: ELISSA ARBEITMAN, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT
Elissa earned a BFA in Graphic Design from The University of Michigan, holds a Masters degree in Art Therapy from New York University, is a Registered, Board-Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC) by the Art Therapy Credentials Board and a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT) by the State of New York. From 2003-2007 she developed and implemented Art Therapy programs throughout New Jersey. In 2007 she opened her private practice, Higher Art, where she specialized in helping children, teenage girls, women and parents develop coping strategies around anxiety and depression while increasing self-esteem...2021-08-1146 minThe Creative Psychotherapist51. Gretchen Miller | Create Your Digital Presence Grounded in Professional Passions & ValuesFEATURED GUEST: Gretchen Miller, MA, ATR-BC, ACTP
Gretchen is a Registered Board-Certified art therapist and an Advanced Certified Trauma Practitioner practicing in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. Her experiences include providing art therapy services for youth and women from homes of domestic violence, grieving children and adolescents, families and adults transitioning out of homelessness, survivors of human trafficking, and youth managing mental health recovery.
Gretchen is a regional, national, and international speaker, art therapy author about adolescents, domestic violence, digital art therapy, and social media, as well as an Adjunct Faculty for Ursuline College and The...2021-08-041h 06The Creative PsychotherapistEE8. 24 | Chris Howard and Ana-Alicia Lopez | Redefining Creative Possibilities of Telehealth to Engage Clients & Grow Your PracticeFEATURED GUEST: {ENCORE of Episode 24 with Chris Howard & Ana-Alicia Lopez}
You might recognize my guests this week from Episode 5. Ana-Alicia Lopez & Chris Howard, are the husband and wife team, behind The House of Music Therapy, LLC. Prior to March 2020, they primarily served their clients in their homes or the community. That is until COVID-19. Now, they are operating entirely using a telehealth model, are growing their practice and serving clients they never would have been able to reach before. We discussed this transition and how they have been making telehealth a dynamic and engaging therapeutic experience for...2021-06-301h 15The Creative PsychotherapistEE7. 26 | Nicole Burgess | Move Through Perfectionism & Fear as a Business OwnerFEATURED GUEST: {ENCORE of Episode 26 with Nicole Burgess}
I can't wait for you to listen to my conversation with Empowerment Coach Nicole Burgess with you. She is so incredibly humble!
She has over 15 years as a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, earned a post-grad certificate in Creative & Expressive Arts, and is a Certified Level 2 EGALA trained Equine Psychotherapist, plus so much more!
She is the host of 2 inspired podcasts - Launching Your Daughter & Soul-Filled Sisterhood.
She has a private practice and a coaching business, where she helps high achieving women demote their inner critic, embr...2021-06-2349 minThe Creative PsychotherapistEE6. 43 | Michael Spencer | Nuts and Bolts of Bookkeeping for TherapistsFEATURED GUEST: {ENCORE Episode 43 with Michael Spencer}
Michael Spencer is the owner of Michael Spencer Bookkeeping, a virtual bookkeeping business serving counselors, therapists, and helping professionals in private practice. With a first career in auditing and accounting and a second career as a Licensed Professional Counselor and coach, Michael brings a unique skill set to her bookkeeping services. She connects with her clients with warmth, compassion, and deep listening; keeps their books accurate and up-to-date every month; and helps them make sense of their financial information.
Michael breaks down the basics of what we need...2021-06-161h 00The Creative PsychotherapistEE5. VFTS 2020 5 | April Duncan | Culturally-Informed Play Therapy for Racial TraumaFEATURED GUEST: {ENCORE of VFTS Episode 5 - April Duncan}
In this Voices From the Expressive Therapies Summit Episode, I got to interview play therapist April Duncan on how she has created a for-profit play therapy program to address suicide and racial trauma in black youth.
April Duncan, LCSW, RPT obtained her Bachelor’s in Arts & Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia (2006), Masters of Social Work from Saint Louis University (2012) and is currently working towards her Doctorate of Social Work (DSW) from University of Southern California. She has a private practice in St. Louis and is the Co...2021-06-091h 12The Creative PsychotherapistEE4. 17 | Emery Mikel | The Art of BusinessFEATURED GUEST: {ENCORE of EPISODE 17- Emery Mikel}
I know I always say, I am so excited to introduce you all to my next guest, but I really really am! She and I met because we were both on a panel together speaking about private practice back in 2015. We have continued to collaborate presenting at conferences on the topic and I have found her book "The Art of Business: A Guide for Creative Arts Therapists" to be a wonderful resource.
Please welcome Emery Mikel, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT, LCPAT to the show. She is the founder and...2021-06-021h 05The Creative PsychotherapistEE3. 30 | Briana MacWilliam | Breaking Glass CeilingsFEATURED GUEST: {ENCORE of EPISODE 30- Briana MacWilliam}
I first learned about my next guest a few years ago at the 2018 AATA conference in Miami. I was talking with a colleague about my plans to create this podcast and consultation business and they asked if I had spoken with Briana MacWilliam.
Nope. Had not even heard of her. My colleague highly encouraged me to look her up to see how she had been able to develop a successful online platform as an art therapist. Then another colleague asked if I had heard of her. Then...2021-05-261h 20The Creative PsychotherapistEE2. VFTS 2020 4 | Bridgit Gaspard | The Final 8th - Enlist Your Inner Selves to Accomplish Your GoalsIn this Voices From the Expressive Therapies Summit Episode, I got to interview Bridgit Dengel Gaspard about her new book the final 8th.
Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, LCSW, is the author of The Final 8th and the founder of the New York Voice Dialogue Institute. She is a former performer who earned a master’s degree from Columbia University and teaches at numerous professional settings including Omega Institute. She lives in New York City, where she maintains a thriving private practice. Visit her online at https://www.final8th.com/.
You’ll find her on social media he...2021-05-191h 22The Creative PsychotherapistEE1. 41| Dr. Judy Rubin | Dr. Judy Rubin On Her Life's Work and the Online Film Learning LibraryFEATURED GUEST: {ENCORE of EPISODE 41}
Dr. Judith A. Rubin earned a Bachelor's in art from Wellesley College and a Master's in Art Education from Harvard University.
In 1964, Rubin met Fred Rogers. Rogers invited Rubin to be on his new public television program, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. She appeared as the "art lady" for three years (1966-1969) and used her segments to communicate the therapeutic value of art to viewers.
Rubin attended the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute and completed her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1976. She has contributed to the field...2021-05-121h 46The Creative Psychotherapist50. Nicole Elise Edwards | Empowered Feminine Archetypes and The Process of Creation*** Special Warning *** There is a short guided visualization in the beginning of our interview, it is recommended that you do not listen to that portion of the program while driving or engaging in an activity which requires your full attention.
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Nicole Elise Edwards, LMHC, MT-BC is the founder of SolRiver Counseling & Expressive Arts Institute. Her aim is to provide women the opportunity to cherish their bodies, their minds, and their spirit so they can Show Up BIG and without Reservation. She is a very passionate and highly versed mental health counselor trained in wo...2021-05-051h 00The Creative Psychotherapist49. Roseann Cappana-Hodge | Helping Parents Get UnstuckDr. Roseann is a trailblazing Psychologist for almost 30 years, Pediatric Mental Health Expert and the founder and director of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health and Dr. Roseann and Associates. Her Connecticut-based center, established in 2001, has helped thousands of children and adults reverse the most challenging conditions such as ADHD, Autism, anxiety, depression, concussion, learning disability, Lyme Disease, and PANS/PANDAS. Dr. Roseann treats these conditions using proven holistic therapies such as neurofeedback, biofeedback, psychotherapy, and nutrition using her trademarked two-week intensive 360 RebootTM Program. Her mission is to teach parents how to reduce and reverse their child’s sy...2021-04-2852 minThe Creative Psychotherapist48. Reaching Couples Through Retreats and Events | Brian MayerBrian Mayer is a solo practitioner at Full Circle Coaching. He works mostly with couples and is trained in Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy. He enjoys experiential work which gives couples real life opportunities to practice skills rather than just talking about them.
He also facilitates online group workshops for couples where they can learn, practice and discuss with other couples things like attachment, communication, managing differences, physical intimacy, and goals.
Brian also hosts a podcast called “The Remarried Life” to help individuals recover from divorce, regain self confidence, and work through the many hurd...2021-04-2153 minThe Creative Psychotherapist47. Creating a Work-Life Balance as an Entrepreneurial Mom | Amber Trueblood
AMBER TRUEBLOOD is a licensed marriage and family therapist, speaker, writer, retreat host and mother to four sons. She loves learning everything she can about human development, psychology, neuroscience, self-care, meditation, communication, bio-hacking and family dynamics.
She is the author of the book, Stretch Marks. It is part memoir, part parenting book and part self-help. She also is the host of the podcast Stretch Marks where she interviews people intent on sharing their wisdom in areas ranging from money to meditation to pelvic floor dysfunction and probiotics.
Amber has been featured in Parade, the Oprah...2021-04-141h 10The Creative Psychotherapist46. "Culturally Sensitive Trauma Response" | Jennifer MarchandJennifer Marchand is a Certified Canadian Counsellor, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, Registered Canadian Art Therapy, and a Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator based in Germany. Over the past ten years, she has worked in a diverse range of settings and cultural contexts as a clinician, consultant and trainer.
In addition to her clinical work, she has worked as a trauma trainer in conflict affected countries - such as Iraq and Afghanistan - on the implementation of trauma sensitive health care for survivors of gender-based violence. She also established a practice in Hanoi, Vietnam working with a diverse client...2021-04-071h 39
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 2021 7. LifeSPEAKS Poetry Therapy | Jennie LinthorstJennie Linthorst, MA, CAPF, is a poet, expressive writing teacher, and founder of LifeSPEAKS Poetry Therapy. She is on the faculty of the UCLA Arts & Healing, and has taught expressive writing workshops at UC Irvine Ext, the University of Santa Monica, the National Association for Poetry Therapy, and the Manhattan Beach Unified School District. Jennie facilitates ongoing adult writing groups and original curriculum for private cleints. She has a bachelor's in psychology from Skidmore College, certification as a certified applied poetry facilitator, and a master's in spiritual psychology from the University of Santa Monica. Jennie has written two books...2021-03-3142 min
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 2021 6. On Cultural Humility | Vivian ChavezVivian Chavez, MPH, DrPH, is a college professor, social justice artist, and yoga/meditation teacher. Much of her work focuses on facilitating conversations about power and privilege and how these operate in our lives. Vivian uses community building, storytelling, creativity, and movement to teach health and wellness. She has her master's and doctorate from the University of CA, Berkeley, with research in "Violence in the Lives of Young Women in Urban Environments." Vivian is an author of books and articles about prevention, youth media, community-based research and cultural humility. She has presented her work in Cuba, Peru, and Argentina...2021-03-241h 04
The Creative PsychotherapistSS8. Relapse Prevention | Special Series on Trauma Response with Nicole Porter DavisEmerald Sketch A.R.T. Specializing in early childhood, acute assessment, trauma treatment, family development and community outreach, Nicole Porter Davis is noted for her immediate response in Newtown, CT initiating art therapy services following the horrifying massacre at Sandy Hook School. She was invited to Director Child Therapy for the Sandy Hook Healing Project days after the tragedy. Ms. Davis later established the Emerald Sketch, LLC employing an art therapy response team of independent clinicians bridging the gap for trauma services first for Newtown, CT.
Now she is the founding Director of Emerald Sketch A.R.T., Inc. a...2021-03-1759 minThe Creative Psychotherapist45. Applying the ACT approach to Entrepreneurship | Lee Chaix McDonoughLee Chaix McDonough is the CEO and Founder of Coach With Clarity, a training and education company for life and business coaches. She is also the host of the Coach with Clarity podcast and author of the #1 Amazon book, ACT On Your Business: Braving the storms of entrepreneurship and creating success through meaning, mindset, and mindfulness.
After over a decade as a clinical social worker and public health professional, Lee became credentialed as a coach through the International Coach Federation and now provides ICF-accredited continuing coach education for intuitive, heart-centered coaches. Her Coach with Clarity® framework fuses m...2021-03-1035 min
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 2021 5. Creative Approaches to Working with Resistance in Therapy | Erica CurtisErica Curtis is co-author with Ping Ho of the award-winning book "The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art." She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Board-Certified Art Therapist. Erica is core faculty and curriculum developer for UCLArts & Healing and consultant for The Board of Behavioral Sciences, The Foundation for Art & Healing, and the Art Therapy department at Loyola Marymount University. Erica is an internationally sought speaker and has been cited in over 100 media outlets as an expert on creative approaches to emotional and relationship health. Erica has a psychotherapy practice in San Juan Capistrano...2021-03-031h 00
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 2021 4. Imagination, Creativity & Spirituality in Therapy | Dr. Leanne DomashLeanne Domash, PhD is a psychologist/psychoanalyst, playwright and Embodied Imagination practitioner. She has had a life-long interest in the creative process and has written and/or presented nationally and internationally on art, architecture, writing, wit and humor, theater, and spirituality as they intersect with the psychotherapeutic process.
The aim of her recent book -- Imagination, Creativity and Spirituality in Psychotherapy: Welcome to Wonderland -- is to awaken creative desire and expand the imagination of the clinician and in turn, his or her patient. However, the book can be read by anyone wanting to solve problems --whether...2021-02-241h 06The Creative Psychotherapist44. Creative Resiliency in Your Practice | Kate ShannonKate Shannon, LPC, LCAT, MT-BC is the host of the Creative Therapy Umbrella podcast. She offers therapist support services, private practice services and continuing education. She has spent her career supporting children with life-limiting medical diagnoses, mental health needs, and developmental differences through music therapy, play and creative expression. Kate is passionate about incorporating play therapy skills into the music therapy space and helps other therapists learn how to support healthy social and emotional development through these skills. Kate also loves working with adults utilizing inner child work, attachment-based therapy, mindfulness and creativity. Besides creating music, she loves to...2021-02-1751 minThe Creative Psychotherapist43. Nuts and Bolts of Bookkeeping for Therapists | Michael SpencerMichael Spencer is the owner of Michael Spencer Bookkeeping, a virtual bookkeeping business serving counselors, therapists, and helping professionals in private practice. With a first career in auditing and accounting and a second career as a Licensed Professional Counselor and coach, Michael brings a unique skill set to her bookkeeping services. She connects with her clients with warmth, compassion, and deep listening; keeps their books accurate and up-to-date every month; and helps them make sense of their financial information.
Michael breaks down the basics of what we need to know as business owners when it comes to b...2021-02-1057 minThe Creative Psychotherapist42. Managing Chronic Stress | Dr. Jennifer LoveDr. Jennifer Love, co-author of WHEN CRISIS STRIKES (December 29th, 2020), is a board-certified psychiatrist in addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Addiction Medicine. She attended medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine and completed her internship, residency, and subspecialty fellowship training at the University of Hawaii. Dr. Love has served as chief resident and as clinical faculty at the University of Hawaii Department of Psychiatry before returning to California, where she is currently in group practice.
Dr. Love is an awa...2021-02-031h 08
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 2021 3. Expressive Arts and Grief | Dr. Robert NeimeyerRobert A. Neimeyer, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, and maintains an active consulting and coaching practice.
He also directs the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, which provides online and onsite training internationally in grief therapy.
Since completing his doctoral training at the University of Nebraska in 1982, he has conducted extensive research on the topics of death, grief, loss, and suicide intervention. Neimeyer has published 30 books, including Techniques of Grief Therapy: Assessment and Intervention and Grief and the Expressive Arts: Practices for Creating Meaning, the latter with Barbara...2021-01-271h 04
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 2021 2. Expressive Remix Therapy: Digital Approaches to Treatment | Jeffrey JamersonJeffrey Jamerson, MA, PhD (c), has over 20 years of experience in the public sector. He has served at-risk youth in various capacities, most recently as the Vice President of programs and services at Aviva Family and Children Services in Los Angeles. Hoping to create a shift in how therapy is conducted with foster children, he has integrated narrative and expressive arts modalities with digital art media, which he calls Expressive Remix Therapy.
Dr. Jamerson's origins are one of the Breakbeat culture of the late 70's and early 80's. He shares about how his connection to breakdancing, rap...2021-01-2059 minThe Creative Psychotherapist41. Dr. Judy Rubin On Her Life's Work and the Online Film Learning Library | Dr. Judy RubinDr. Judith A. Rubin earned a Bachelor's in art from Wellesley College and a Master's in Art Education from Harvard University.
In 1964, Rubin met Fred Rogers. Rogers invited Rubin to be on his new public television program, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. She appeared as the "art lady" for three years (1966-1969) and used her segments to communicate the therapeutic value of art to viewers.
Rubin attended the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute and completed her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1976. She has contributed to the field of art therapy by serving in a...2021-01-131h 38
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 2021 1. Starting a Private Art Therapy Practice | Dr. Rachel Brandoff Interviews Podcast Host Reina LombardiIn this Voices From The Summit 2021 Episode, guest host, Dr. Rachel Brandoff, interviews the Creative Psychotherapist Podcast host, Reina Lombardi. Dr. Brandoff was a previous guest on Episode 4 How Speaking at a Conference Can Garnish a Publishing Deal. Dr. Brandoff has been a source of enduring support and encouragement throughout Reina's career. It was the result of a conversation with Dr. Brandoff that breathed life into the idea of opening her private practice.
In this episode, they talk candidly about Reina's birthing process of creating a private practice. Moreover, they discuss how small, deliberate and consistent steps i...2021-01-061h 23The Creative Psychotherapist40. End of the Year Business Prep | Reina LombardiIn this solo episode, host Reina Lombardi, shares the 3 things she consistently does at the end of each year to reflect upon successes of the year and to plan for more successes in the following. Year-end rituals and practices can become things you look forward to in your business. Reina uses both practical, data driven and creative activities in her evaluation and planning process. The data gives a clear picture about what is working within the business, where the strengths are, and areas in need of improvement or tweaking. The creative visualization exercises offer an opportunity to visually explore...2020-12-3027 minThe Creative Psychotherapist39. Growing a Solo Practice | Lisa RichardsonLisa Richardson, MA, LMHC, LPC, CCTP is the owner of Spirited Away Art Therapy, LLC in Venice, Florida. She is also the Co-chair for Arts for Health Sarasota-Manatee county, an active artist, writer and actress. She considers herself to be creatively curious and a first-time dog mother. She shares with us how she has grown a solo art therapy practice through engaged community outreach efforts. My favorite part of the interview is where she shares about how her engagement in her local community theater has helped her grow as both personally and professionally.
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The Creative PsychotherapistSS7. Secure Remembrance | Special Series on Trauma Response with Nicole Porter DavisNicole Porter Davis ATR-BC, LCAT specializes in early childhood, acute assessment, trauma treatment, family development and community outreach. She is noted for her immediate response in Newtown, CT initiating art therapy services following the horrifying massacre at Sandy Hook School. She was invited to Director Child Therapy for the Sandy Hook Healing Project days after the tragedy.
Ms. Davis later established the Emerald Sketch, LLC employing an art therapy response team of independent clinicians bridging the gap for trauma services first for Newtown, CT. Now she is the founding Director of Emerald Sketch A.R.T., Inc...2020-12-1649 minThe Creative Psychotherapist38. Expanding Beyond one-to-one Therapy with Online Training Offerings | Jackie FlynnJackie Flynn is the founder and director of Counseling in Brevard, is a Licensed Psychotherapist, Registered Play Therapist, Trauma Therapist, Couples Counselor, Education Consultant, and Parent Coach.
She is the creator of the following imagery books: Jackie Feels and Animal Imagery: EMDR Inner Resource Development. Her passion for helping children and families in a variety of settings inspired her to open a private practice group in Cocoa Village Florida where she provides caring, thoughtful counseling and therapy to individuals of all ages, families, couples, and groups.
As a proud veteran of the US Army, a...2020-12-0945 minThe Creative Psychotherapist37. Telehealth, Biofeedback, & Neurofeedback | Dr. Roseann Cappana-HodgeDr. Roseann is a trailblazing Psychologist for almost 30 years, Pediatric Mental Health Expert and the founder and director of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health and Dr. Roseann and Associates. Her Connecticut-based center, established in 2001, has helped thousands of children and adults reverse the most challenging conditions such as ADHD, Autism, anxiety, depression, concussion, learning disability, Lyme Disease, and PANS/PANDAS. Dr. Roseann treats these conditions using proven holistic therapies such as neurofeedback, biofeedback, psychotherapy, and nutrition using her trademarked two-week intensive 360 RebootTM Program. Her mission is to teach parents how to reduce and reverse their child’s sy...2020-12-021h 05The Creative Psychotherapist36. Creating Your Unique Company Culture | Heather AndersonIn this Episode, my Creative Assistant, Heather Anderson and I have a candid conversation on the topic of Strategic Planning. We talk about how to infuse creativity into the process, how to make it your own, and how a leader's personal values and beliefs impact company culture.
Heather Anderson is the owner of Heatheryish.com. The name of her business is an expression of her creative style. Heatheryish is and adjective to express compassion, connection, growth, and joy through creativity with efficiency, purpose, and integrity. She is an artist, an educator, a Reiki Level II practitioner, and a...2020-11-2553 minThe Creative Psychotherapist35. 3 Business Benefits of Being in a Mastermind Group | Reina LombardiIn this Solo Episode, I share the 3 biggest benefits I have experienced by being part of a paid Mastermind Community.
I love having guests on the show, but sometimes things don't line up correctly. Interviews get cancelled or rescheduled. Recordings have technical errors or in some cases they don't convert properly and get lost in the ether. This was definitely one of those weeks.
A Mastermind group consists of a group of likeminded professionals who meet to discuss business. They essentially mentor and support one another's professional growth. Typically, they are paid groups. While some pe...2020-11-1835 minThe Creative Psychotherapist33. Increasing Access to Mental Health by Design The Co, an Arts and Therapies Center | Angel BigalotAngel Bilagot is a registered Psychotherapist and Drama Therapist. She is also a mother to four beautifully rambunctious boys. Angel graduate from Wilfred Laurier University with a combined degree of Psychology and Theatre. She completed her Master's Degree from Concordia University, specializing in Drama Therapy.
Angel continued her training in Drama Therapy in New York City, while working as a therapist at the PTSD Clinic in New Haven, Connecticut. Angel's professional experiences have provided her the opportunity to work, teach and develop programs for environments such as the Jewish General Hospital (Montreal), The Canadian Institute for Neuro...2020-11-0444 min
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 10. Dreamscaping: Prescriptive Memories for Grief and Loss | Nancy GershmanNancy Gershman, LMSW, is a psychotherapist and the developer of Dreamscaping, an imaginal and photo-based approach to treating grief and loss, supported by the way memories get encoded in the brain. Dreamscaping uses resourcing, felt sense memory, re-scripting and mental simulations to shift the focus from “what do you miss?” to “what gives you joy?”
After a decade of Dreamscaping with the bereaved as a memory artist, Nancy was featured for her work with end of life families at VNSNY/Haven Hospice as NY1’s “New Yorker of the Week” (2016). In 2020, Routledge published "Prescriptive Memories in Grief and Loss: The...2020-10-2853 minThe Creative Psychotherapist32. | Earn Passive Income by Selling Your Therapeutic Resources | Marie LeznickiMindstead founder, Marie Leznicki, has always cared deeply about human potential and personal growth. Having benefited from counseling, coaching, and complementary approaches herself, Marie wished more people had access to the exercises, worksheets, and activities used in one-on-one sessions without the stigmas and challenges of time and cost attached. And, with that, the idea for Mindstead was born.
According to their website, " Mindstead is the world's first marketplace of personal growth tools. It’s Etsy for your mind: Find bite-sized worksheets, exercises, and activity guides to help you become an even better version of yourself from acclaimed th...2020-10-2149 min
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 9. Musician to Music Therapist : How the Expressive Therapies Summit Inspired Career Change| Dan WalshI am excited to share this conversation with Board Certified Music Therapist, Dan Walsh. He shared how he became inspired to shift into the world of music therapy after attending a session at the Expressive Therapies Summit.
Dan is a Board-Certified Music Therapist/Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Dan currently works with adults and adolescents in inpatient behavioral health units as part of an interdisciplinary treatment team at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn NY. . During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in NYC, he also provided music interventions to frontline workers. Dan has worked at several community centers...2020-10-1444 min
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 8. Trauma-Informed Treatment and Training: How Collaboration Created the Kint Institute | Craig HaenIn this Voices From the Expressive Therapies Summit Episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Craig Haen. He shared the origin story of the Kint Institute, which grew out of inspired collaboration at the Expressive Therapies Summit and much more.
Craig Haen, Ph.D., RDT, CGP, LCAT, FAGPA has a private practice working with children, adolescents, adults and families in White Plains, NY. He serves as faculty in the department of applied psychology at New York University and the expressive therapies doctoral program at Lesley University, teaching courses in both clinical practice and research. Craig is a...2020-10-0756 min
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 7. Psychodrama in Individual Therapy | Rebecca WaltersRebecca Walters, MS, LMHC, LCAT, TEP, is the co-founder and director of the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute, which provides professional training in action methods. She is certified as a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. Rebecca was the director of Child & Adolescent Psychodrama Services at Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital where she ran psychodrama groups on in- and out- patient child, adolescent and adult units for over twenty-five years. Rebecca is a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) and was the recipient of their 2018 JL...2020-09-301h 13
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 6. Parts Work in Play and Poetry Therapy | Marshall LylesIn this Voices From the Expressive Therapies Summit Episode, I interviewed play therapist Marshall Lyles. He talked about his multi-modal integrative approach to therapy and training therapists.
Marshall Lyles, LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, has over 15 years of practice in family and play therapy in a variety of mental health settings. With extensive international speaking and training experience in experiential approaches to treating attachment trauma, Marshall particularly enjoys discussing the use of sandtray therapy within a trauma-informed context. Presently, Marshall primarily conducts supervision and consultation sessions with counseling professionals. He is EMDR-certified and applies this, and other trauma approaches to...2020-09-231h 00
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 5. Culturally-Informed Play Therapy for Racial Trauma | April DuncanIn this Voices From the Expressive Therapies Summit Episode, I got to interview play therapist April Duncan on how she has created a for-profit play therapy program to address suicide and racial trauma in black youth.
April Duncan, LCSW, RPT obtained her Bachelor’s in Arts & Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia (2006), Masters of Social Work from Saint Louis University (2012) and is currently working towards her Doctorate of Social Work (DSW) from University of Southern California. She has a private practice in St. Louis and is the Co-Owner of St. Louis Play Therapy Institute, which provides play th...2020-09-161h 17
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 4. The Final 8th - Enlist Your Inner Selves to Accomplish Your Goals | Bridgit GaspardIn this Voices From the Expressive Therapies Summit Episode, I got to interview Bridgit Dengel Gaspard about her new book the final 8th.
Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, LCSW, is the author of The Final 8th and the founder of the New York Voice Dialogue Institute. She is a former performer who earned a master’s degree from Columbia University and teaches at numerous professional settings including Omega Institute. She lives in New York City, where she maintains a thriving private practice. Visit her online at https://www.final8th.com/.
You’ll find her on social media he...2020-09-091h 16
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 3. Resiliency Through Writing and Action | Nancy ScherlongNancy S. Scherlong, LCSW, PTR, CJT, M/S is a licensed clinical social worker in the states of NY and CT, a registered poetry therapist, certified journal therapist and a trainer in both methods. Nancy is a writer and integrative psychotherapist specializing in traumatic stress and addiction recovery. She has used therapeutic writing and psychodramatic action methods for over 25 years. She provides workshops as well as distance coaching, consultation and training services. She teaches in several New York area graduate social work programs, is on the core faculty of the Therapeutic Writing Center and is a member of the...2020-09-021h 01The Creative Psychotherapist31. From Practice to Professional Manual: Brick-Based Counseling | Derek TulluckI am very excited to welcome Derek Tulluck on the show. He is an Elementary School Counselor, Professor, Author of Brick-Based Counseling and maintains the school counselor resource Brick Counselor (www.brickcounselor.com). Any therapist looking for therapeutic interventions involving blocks, bricks and those fancy brand named tiny colored bricks no one likes to step on with their bare feet....his resources on the topic are for you.
Derek is a school counselor in the Seattle area, Enumclaw School District, and adjunct professor at City University of Seattle in the Professional School Counseling graduate degree program. He...2020-08-2653 min
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 2. Voices From the Expressive Therapies Summit | Digital Art Interventions for COVID & Beyond | Kendra CarlsonToday's Voices From the Expressive Therapies Summit Series Guest is Kendra Carlson, MAAT, ATR-BC. She is a Registered and Board Certified Art Therapist at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, and Adjunct Professor at Springfield College Art Therapy/Counseling Graduate Program.
Kendra’s work includes lifespan populations with a focus on adolescents and experience in chronic physical and mental illness. Developed and implements a grant-based digital art therapy program for behavioral health patients in crisis as well as hospitalized adolescents and children with co-morbidity diagnoses and trauma.
She is project leader and co-facilitator of the PRN...2020-08-191h 00
The Creative PsychotherapistVFTS 1. Voices From the Expressive Therapies Summit | Meet the Summit's Founder | Barry M. CohenVoices From the Expressive Therapies Summit Episode 1
I have been asking Barry to be a guest on the show to talk about the Expressive Therapies Summit
before I even had any podcasting equipment in 2019. The idea for TCP had been brewing for several years before I began taking the necessary action steps to bring it to life. I learned that Barry, similarly had the idea for the Summit percolating within him for decades before the opportunity to breathe life into it was ripe.
Barry M. Cohen, MA, ATR-BC began his career in the helping...2020-08-121h 17The Creative Psychotherapist30. Briana MacWilliam | Breaking Glass CeilingsI first learned about my next guest a few years ago at the 2018 AATA conference in Miami. I was talking with a colleague about my plans to create this podcast and consultation business, and they asked if I had spoken with Briana MacWilliam.
Nope. Had not even heard of her. My colleague highly encouraged me to look her up to see how she had been able to develop a successful online platform as an art therapist. Then another colleague asked if I had heard of her. Then my last graduate student intern told me she had Briana...2020-08-051h 15The Creative Psychotherapist29. Networking for Your Client | Phillip ClarkPhillip Clark is the Founder & President of ENABLE Special Needs Planning, LLC. He created ENABLE thanks to the positive influence of his younger sister, Sarah, who has Down syndrome. Phillip began his career in the financial services industry with the intention of helping families with children with Special Needs Plan for their futures. He quickly realized that the industry’s standard approach to Special Needs Planning was very different from the way his family had planned for his sister’s life.
Traditional Special Needs Planning only helps families prepare for what will happen to their child when the...2020-07-2958 minThe Creative Psychotherapist28. Light Your Brand on Fire: 8 Parts of Branding with JennyBCreative | Jenny BoydBack in January I hosted a Vision Board - Goal Setting workshop at my practice. That is where I met my next guest, Jenny Boyd. I can't speak for Jenny, but I know my goals have taken a wee bit of a detour since March.
Jenny is an award winning brand and graphic designer. With a background in director level leadership in brand management and art direction, she has been recognized in the areas of product innovation, as well as brand and editorial design. She enjoys making things come to life with her designs. Bringing a positive...2020-07-2257 minThe Creative Psychotherapist27. Industry-Expert Tips on Using SEO to make your website STAND OUT!Episode 27 is all about Marketing! Our next guest, Joel Connor, shares Industry-Expert Tips on Using SEO to make your website STAND OUT!
Joel Conner is the founder and director of Blue Swing Media & Epiq Video where he and his team use their digital marketing skills to help small businesses get seen on the web. When Joel started out as a web designer almost a decade ago, he used simple content marketing to rank his services on google. This included writing an occasional blog post, sharing a few things on Facebook, and listing his business with local directories. Ov...2020-07-201h 06The Creative Psychotherapist26. Move Through Perfectionism & Fear as a Business Owner | Nicole BurgessHey Creatives. I can't wait for you to listen to my conversation with Empowerment Coach Nicole Burgess with you. She is so incredibly humble!
She has over 15 years as a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, earned a post-grad certificate in Creative & Expressive Arts, and is a Certified Level 2 EGALA trained Equine Psychotherapist, plus so much more!
She is the host of 2 inspired podcasts - Launching Your Daughter & Soul-Filled Sisterhood.
She has a private practice and a coaching business, where she helps high achieving women demote their inner critic, embrace their fears through action, and grow professionally w...2020-07-0843 minThe Creative Psychotherapist25. Take Control of Business Finances | David AxlerDoes the word Accounting, send you running? Not to fear, my next guest shares how easy it is to take control of your business accounting needs using Wave. David Axler, is the VP of Strategy and Business Development at Wave Accounting. He is passionate about helping small business owners take control of their finances with improved efficiency. In today's episode he shares 3 things business owners need to know about accounting as it relates to operating profitably. He also shares what to look for in an accounting platform.
Wave is a free intuitively designed accounting platform. Prior to upgrading to an electronic health record, I used Wave...2020-07-0146 minThe Creative Psychotherapist24. Redefining Creative Possibilities of Telehealth to Engage Clients & Grow Your Practice | Chris Howard and Ana-Alicia LopezYou might recogize my guests this week from Episode 5. Ana-Alicia Lopez & Chris Howard, are the husband and wife team, behind The House of Music Therapy, LLC. Prior to March 2020, they primarily served their clients in their homes or the community. That is until COVID-19. Now, they are operating entirely using a telehealth model, are growing their practice and serving clients they never would have been able to reach before. We discussed this transition and how they have been making telehealth a dynamic and engaging therapeutic experience for their clients. This includes how they have integrated Green Screen technology within...2020-06-241h 10The Creative Psychotherapist23. Brand Building and More | Lisa MustardI have been following Lisa on Social Media and listening to her Podcast, the Therapy Show, for quite some time. I love her positive energy and authenticity. She uses both to make her brand standout on social media. In today's episode she talks all about how to create a personal brand that goes beyond a single business through consistency and authenticity. Here is a little bit about Lisa. Overwhelmed and stressed out with little self-care, Lisa had her wake-up call in her mid 40s. Tired of going through the motions of life with her lifestyle and career as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, she decided to pursue her passion of creatively making a difference in the lives of others by creating a podcast for Talk Therapists. Through her coa...2020-06-1753 minThe Creative Psychotherapist22. Five Things You Need to Know BEFORE You Lease or Buy An Office Space | Colin CarrToday's episode is all about what you need to know before leasing or buying an office for your practice. My guest is Coin Carr, founder of CARR Healthcare Realty. He and his nationwide team of realtors specialize in working with commercial real estate services for healthcare tenants and buyers. They are the leaders in this niche nationwide! Colin is a wealth of knowledge and shared fantastic tips that will be of benefit to anyone looking to buy or lease commercial property. I wish I would have known some of these things before I got into my last lease!
2020-06-1054 minThe Creative Psychotherapist21. Unexpected Benefits of Blogging | Carolyn Mehlomakulu, LMFT, ATR-BCI had the pleasure of speaking with Art Therapist Carolyn Mehlomakulu, LMFT-S, ATR of Creativity in Therapy. Carolyn shares how she started blogging about art therapy in 2012. The blog has helped her build her brand, fill her private practice, fill online courses and gain a publishing contract. She shares how she structures one day a week in her schedule to dedicate to plugging away at the keyboard and other creative projects. We also talk about her new book The Balanced Mind: A Mental Health Journal: Exploratory Prompts and Effective Practices. This journal has wonderful prompts with plenty of space...2020-06-0351 minThe Creative Psychotherapist20. Marketing Tips for Practice Builders | Reina LombardiToday's episode is all about Marketing your practice. I share some of the hurdles I have had to jump in order to help my business grow. And after a decade, I still have more work to do in this area! I share the construct that I use to frame "marketing" in a way that has helped me to embrace it versus fear it. No matter how you feel about marketing, I encourage you to find one approach the clicks with you and your comfort zone and steadily inch forward until the fear is comfortable.
Resources: There sources...2020-05-271h 11The Creative Psychotherapist19. Building an Online Art Therapy Practice | Leah GuzmanMy next guest is an incredibly talented and accomplished artist and art therapist, Leah Guzman. She works in the Miami-Dade public schools and her practice, The Artful Experience, where she offers individual art therapy, sells her own artwork and offers specialized courses using art as a healing process. She and I will be discussing how she is using video confrenceing to provide interactive arts-based courses and workshops for her practice.
Resources:
https://leahguzman.com/
Online Courses: https://leahguzman.com/online-classes
Facebook: Check out her
Private FB Group Creative Soul Online Retreat for inspirational art...2020-05-2032 minThe Creative Psychotherapist18. Diversifying a Practice by Focusing on Mediation & Parenting EvaluationsI am very excited to welcome Julie Corbin, LMFT to the podcast. Prior to becoming a therapist, she spent years leading troubled and urban teen on wilderness trips, facilitating awe-inspiring personal change along the way. After tiring of living in a tent, she obtained a Master's in Marriage and Family Counseling from Stetson University. She specializes in the treatment of trauma and working with families of divorce and holds and EMDR certification. She has been working in private practice for roughly a decade and has spent the past few years developing a niche in the area of mediation and...2020-05-1333 minThe Creative Psychotherapist17. The Art of BusinessI know I always say, I am so excited to introduce you all to my next guest, but I really really am! She and I met because we were both on a panel together speaking about private practice back in 2015. We have continued to collaborate presenting at conferences on the topic and I have found her book "The Art of Business: A Guide for Creative Arts Therapists" to be a wonderful resource.
Please welcome Emery Mikel, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT, LCPAT to the show. She is the founder and director of Water & Stone, a Creative Arts Therapy, PLLC...2020-05-061h 03The Creative Psychotherapist16. Following Your Therapeutic Instincts: Using Yoga Swings as a "Holding Container" for Clients in a Private PracticeI am excited to welcome play therapist supervisor and social worker Robyn Gobbel, She is an attachment focused therapist integrating various expression modalities. She recently relocated, but prior to that she had a thriving private practice in the Austin Texas area. One of the most unique things that Robyn did in her practice, was integrate a Yoga Swing in her practice with clients. She recently moved to Michigan and is rebuilding a practice there.
RESOURCES: https://www.gobbelcounseling.com/
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reina-lombardi5/support2020-04-2951 minThe Creative Psychotherapist15. Integrating Telehealth into Your Practice: Legal and Ethical Considerations During the PandemicOn this episode I take a deep dive into the legal and ethical considerations when integrating telehealth into your private practice. We will be talking about HIPAA/HITECH, policies and procedures, informed consents, addressing risk, and more.
Resources:
Loom https://www.loom.com
Risk Analysis Training: https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/page/2019-07/SRAInstructionalPresentation.pdf
Risk Analysis Tool: https://www.healthit.gov/topic/privacy-security-and-hipaa/security-risk-assessment-tool
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The Creative PsychotherapistSS6. Social Connection | Special Series on Trauma Response with Nicole Porter DavisThe current pandemic is creating a global scale traumatic event peppered with myriad micro traumas. It is impacting everyone in varying degrees. For those able to manage and integrate their emotional experiences, they may come out on the other end without any negative psychological effects from the experience. While others may surface experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. This may be especially true in areas of the country and world experiencing the highest number of illnesses and within the community of medical professionals on the front lines caring for them.
Given the circumstances,
Nicole Porter...2020-04-181h 02
The Creative PsychotherapistSS5. The Therapeutic Relationship | Special Series on Trauma Response with Nicole Porter DavisThe current pandemic is creating a global scale traumatic event peppered with myriad micro traumas. It is impacting everyone in varying degrees. For those able to manage and integrate their emotional experiences, they may come out on the other end without any negative psychological effects from the experience. While others may surface experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. This may be especially true in areas of the country and world experiencing the highest number of illnesses and within the community of medical professionals on the front lines caring for them.
Given the circumstances, Nicole Porter Davis and I...2020-04-171h 05
The Creative PsychotherapistSS4 . Special Series on Trauma Response with Nicole Porter Davis | Creative Coping SkillsThe current pandemic is creating a global scale traumatic event peppered with myriad micro traumas. It is impacting everyone in varying degrees. For those able to manage and integrate their emotional experiences, they may come out on the other end without any negative psychological effects from the experience. While others may surface experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. This may be especially true in areas of the country and world experiencing the highest number of illnesses and within the community of medical professionals on the front lines caring for them.
Given the circumstances, Nicole Porter Davis and I...2020-04-161h 01
The Creative PsychotherapistSS3. Special Series on Trauma Response with Nicole Porter Davis | Community OutreachThe current pandemic is creating a global scale traumatic event peppered with myriad micro traumas. It is impacting everyone in varying degrees. For those able to manage and integrate their emotional experiences, they may come out on the other end without any negative psychological effects from the experience. While others may surface experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. This may be especially true in areas of the country and world experiencing the highest number of illnesses and within the community of medical professionals on the front lines caring for them.
Given the circumstances, Nicole Porter Davis and I...2020-04-1558 min
The Creative PsychotherapistSS2. Creating Safety and Security | Special Series on Trauma Response with Nicole Porter DavisThe current pandemic is creating a global scale traumatic event peppered with myriad micro traumas. It is impacting everyone in varying degrees. For those able to manage and integrate their emotional experiences, they may come out on the other end without any negative psychological effects from the experience. While others may surface experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. This may be especially true in areas of the country and world experiencing the highest number of illnesses and within the community of medical professionals on the front lines caring for them.
Given the circumstances, Nicole Porter Davis and I...2020-04-1436 min
The Creative PsychotherapistSS1. Creating A Creative Arts Therapy Trauma Response Team| Special Series on Trauma Response with Nicole Porter DavisNicole Porter Davis, ATR-BC, LPC, LCAT is today's guest. She is the founder of Emerald Sketch ART, inc. The Emerald Sketch’s global mission is to work with children and families within their communities to heal symptoms of post traumatic stress and complex grief when devastated with unforeseeable tragedy. It grew out of Nicole's work responding to the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012. Since then she has taught other clinicians how to quickly mobilize and find funding to support creative arts based trauma response treatment programs following various large scale traumatic events. In ad...2020-04-1349 minThe Creative Psychotherapist14. Maintaining Your Self-Care Practices During Unprecedented TimesWe are talking all about the importance of maintaining your self-care practice during this episode. I share some of that ways that I am continuing to stay consistent in my routine and some creative strategies I have been using to manage my own anxiety during this time.
Also, if you are interested in signing up for a tele-therapy service, we have a blog post about what you will need to consider. If you are considering tele-health, check out doxy.me here. It offers a basic free, or upgraded paid, HIPAA complaint platform for video conferencing. I have...2020-04-0842 minThe Creative Psychotherapist13. How to Pivot in Your Practice During Unprecedented TimesIn response to the current Global situation impacting all of us right now, I made the decision to press pause on the typical interviews that had been airing to this point and focus on creating content that might be of service to the community right now. Over the next few weeks I will be sharing individual recorded episodes on topics that may be at the top of mind for many. Today, I share with you ways that I have been having to pivot in my practice and share some ways I have been managing my responses to the current...2020-04-0142 minThe Creative Psychotherapist12. Tele-Art Therapy, Art Kits, and BeyondIt is a delight to introduce my next guest, art therapist Deanna Barton. She is the owner of Artspiration, LLC. She speaks candidly about offering online art therapy services and includes how she has made tele-art therapy work for her without shying away from the nitty-gritty about what strategies benefit her business as well as her clients. She is also very forthcoming about what hasn't worked and using that information to guide a pivot in her business. She details how she arrived at the decision to discontinue a product she invested time and money in as well as her...2020-03-2551 minThe Creative Psychotherapist11. How to Create the Support of a Group Practice While Being a Solo-PractitionerI'm excited to welcome my next guest Amie Thomas to the show. She and I crossed paths early on in both of our careers. I took a position she had previously been in, but it wasn't until 2019 that we met. And we did so through blind email Networking. What?! Yes. An email sent to a colleague to learn more about them, their practice and ideal clients. It resulted in a coffee date between myself, Amie, and another colleague. It was there we realized our paths had been intertwined. I'm excited for her to share how she's been building her...2020-03-1853 minThe Creative Psychotherapist10. Building an Expressive Arts Based Retreat and Workshop Focused PracticeI had been stalking my next guest on Instagram for a while before I ended up meeting her at a 3 day intensive Mandala training, created and taught by Carol Thayer Cox & Amy Bucciarelli that I had the great privilege of hosting at my practice in 2019. I was so excited when I realized that she was in my office space because I was watching what she created through her social media marketing. Ella Dufrene is an art therapist with a passion for integrating nature with her art therapy practice. She has created her practice offering expressive arts based retreat programs ar...2020-03-1159 minThe Creative Psychotherapist9. Building a Following Based on a Specialized CourseI have to be completely transparent here. I invited my next guests to the show because they are going to be teaching the 20 hour Mastering the Meaning of Mandalas Course at my practice April 17-19 2020. I took the course last year and was blown away by how much I learned and how it changed the lens in which I view the world including client artwork.
Carol Thayer Cox is a retired board-certified art therapist, educator, and writer. She is former faculty of the graduate art therapy program at George Washington University, was the assistant director there for 10...2020-03-0449 minThe Creative Psychotherapist8. Vacation Counseling: Creating a CollaborativeI am so excited to share my conversation with Dr. April Brown today about her latest addition to her practice- Vacation Counseling. I must admit that I am collaborating with her to create this spectacular intimate retreat for couples with a desire to strengthen and improve their relationship through immersive counseling experience. Dr. Brown is the host of "Bringing Intimacy Back," a radio show, TV show, and podcast focusing on enhancing intimacy and rejuvenating loving relationships. She also owns a small THRIVING group practice with office in multiple cities.
RESOURCES: https://bringingintimacyback.com/
https://www.v...2020-02-2644 minThe Creative Psychotherapist7. Using Meet-Up to Market and Build Expressive Therapy Groups in Private PracticeI am excited to introduce you to my next guest, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, Brandy Schafer, LMHC. She is the owner of Expressionist Creative Counseling , LLC in Lake Mary, Florida. In this episode you will hear our conversation on how she went about using Meet Up to market arts-based support groups as a means to building her practice.
Resources:
http://www.expressionistscounseling.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/expressionistscounseling/
Snapchat @expressionistscounseling
MeetUp https://www.meetup.com/
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reina-lombardi5/support2020-02-1953 minThe Creative Psychotherapist6. How A Therapeutic Book Club Can Support and Grow Your PracticeI am thrilled to introduce to you Charity Godfrey. She is a powerhouse, go-getter, dream-maker, practice owner. She grew a thriving practice within a year of opening, not accepting insurance and as a pre-licensed therapist. She owns Lifescape Counseling, LLC and practices with her colleague Courtney Faunce. She is the co-founder of the Children & Youth Mental Health Conference at FGCU, which is in it's 9th year. Today we are talking about how she has developed a Therapeutic Book Club as a means of Supporting her clients as well as welcoming new clients into her practice. I hope this interview...2020-02-1249 minThe Creative Psychotherapist5. Starting a New Practice in a New CityMy next guests are husband and wife business owners and entrepreneurs. I am so exited to share my conversation with Ana-Alicia Lopez and Chris Howard of The House of Music Therapy, LLC. They recently moved from the Live Music Capital, Austin, Texas to the Live Music Lacking city of Fort Myers, Florida and opened The House of Music Therapy, LLC. Today we are going to be talking about starting a practice in a completely new city, without any connections or networks, and how it can be an asset to be the first music therapy private practice in an area.2020-02-0555 minThe Creative Psychotherapist4. How Speaking at a Conference Can Garnish a Publishing DealI'm over the moon thrilled to have Rachel Brandoff & Angel Thompson on the show today. They will be talking about their new book Quick & Creative Art Projects for Creative Therapists with (Very) Limited Budgets. They will also share how a conference presentation on this topic turned into a published book. We will discuss how they managed the co-authoring process at the same time as juggling all their other life responsibilities to ensure it was complete by the publishers deadline.
**Receive a 20% discount AND enter a raffle to WIN your own free copy of the book!! To receive d...2020-01-291h 08The Creative Psychotherapist3. Making Dreams A Reality with Ricky Roberts IIII've had the pleasure of knowing my next guest since childhood. We reconnected as adults. He is passionate about his mission to inspire you to not only see the greatness in who you are, but let it shine through in all aspects of your life. I'm excited to share my conversation with Ricky Roberts III as we discuss his recent book "Far From Easy: What it Takes to Make Your Dreams A Reality." He is also the author of “Healing the Wounded Child Within,” “Just for Youth,” “Awaken the New You,” “Where Did the Gift Go,” “What really Matters,” and “You,” all which...2020-01-1950 minThe Creative Psychotherapist2. Calculate Fees With ConfidenceDoes setting fees stop you in your tracks? Does the idea of even thinking about what to charge clients send you into a tail spin? We've got you covered in this episode on how to set a fee based on your personal and business finances. For those brave souls ready to tackle this task, we have a free downloadable spreadsheet that walks you through the equation with ease and will have you calculating your fees with confidence.
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Profit First by Michael Michalowitz: https...2020-01-1829 minThe Creative Psychotherapist1. Introduction to the TCP with Reina LombardiThe Creative Psychotherapist is the official podcast of The Creative Clinician’s Corner, a practice building resource for Creative Psychotherapists. TCP podcast is the cast for creative, expressive, and experiential focused psychotherapists curious to learn how to design, build, and scale a thriving private practice. Your host, Reina Lombardi, interviews successful therapists about the tools and strategies they have used to develop creative focused practices. They also talk about the products, services, and side hustles they have developed using their knowledge and creativity to enhance their therapy practices, make a greater impact in their communities, and diversify their income st...2020-01-1509 min