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art and healing, Art Therapy, art trauma, arts and health, compassion fatigue, creative arts, creative process, creativity, expressive arts, expressive arts therapy, expressive arts training, Internal Family Systems, narrative, professional training, therapist burnout

Celebrating Creative Arts Therapy

Posted on by Sibel Golden
20
Mar

“Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist.”     This quote by Eileen Miller illustrates the power of expressive arts to discover latent parts of ourselves and the world around us. When words are not accessible, the creative arts allow us to speak in new ways. In order to […]

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art and healing, compassion fatigue, creative process, creativity, expressive arts therapy, soul collage, supervision, therapist burnout

Soul Collage® for Therapists: A Powerful Method for Supervision

Posted on by Sibel Golden

SoulCollage® is a creative and transformative process, in which you create your own personal deck of collaged cards, using your intuition and imagination. Seena Frost, a Marriage and Family Therapist in Watsonville, CA developed it by uniting her passions for spirituality, psychotherapy, and creativity. You can learn more about SoulCollage® at http://www.soulcollage.com. If you are already familiar with […]

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Art Therapy, compassion fatigue, creativity, expressive arts therapy, journal writing, stress, therapist burnout, values clarification

The Ethics of Self-Care

Posted on by Sibel Golden

We’ve all been there. Our work is satisfying, fulfilling, and…not always easy.   In Section C of the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics: “…In addition, counselors engage in self-care activities to maintain and promote their own emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual well-being to best meet their professional responsibilities…” (If you abide by a different […]

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