Licensed Certified Art Therapist, Fine Artist, Educator, Author
& Documentary Film Director
Also known as BA (Pronounced: bee-ay)
Pronouns: they/them
Locations of Self:
I identify as a mixed race, gender queer/nonbinary person. I come from a diasporic Maliseet/Wolastiqiyik family who left Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada around the time reservations and boarding schools were being put into place. I am also Irish, German and English. I experience multiple invisible disabilities. I grew up around the Great Lakes region, living in both Michigan and Ontario throughout my youth. Experiences and aspects of my own identity and social locations are always interacting within me and the work I do as clinician, supervisor, educator and documentarian. I am committed to provide support that affirms all the social locations of those whom I serve. I am also committed to continually work to identify and counteract any elements of my own privilege as they arise. I am a strong lover of art history, especially art that traces and tells stories relating to the journeys of humankind. My goal in all the work I do is to support individuals honoring their creative process, personal strengths, and intersections while providing tangible opportunities for healing and growth in any facet of life. I also believe in the importance of acknowledging, questioning and creatively dismantling historical systemic power structures that have been in place and have unfairly disadvantaged individuals. To view my theoretical foundations in clinical art therapy click HERE.
Credentials:
MA: Art Therapy from Marylhurst University.
LCAT: C-10205598 Licensed certified art therapist in Oregon.
ATCB: 01-151 Nationally board certified art therapist
ATCS: Nationally certified art therapy supervisor with ATCB
Teaching Experience: Eastern Oregon University (2011-14), Marylhurst University (2016-17), Heritage University (2017-2023), Lewis & Clark College (2017-present).
Art CV: Click to view
Clinical Publications:
Creative Wellness: Art Journaling with Mindfulness (October 2016)
Creative Wellness Treatment Deck (July 2021)
Healing from Clinical Trauma Using Creative Mindfulness Techniques (September 2021)
Documentary Film Work: Click to view
Would you like to learn more about my creative offerings? Join my special google group where I post about workshops (both virtual and in-person), creative prompts for art making and much more. Click HERE to send me a message that you would like to join and I will add you.
Pronouns: they/them
Locations of Self:
I identify as a mixed race, gender queer/nonbinary person. I come from a diasporic Maliseet/Wolastiqiyik family who left Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada around the time reservations and boarding schools were being put into place. I am also Irish, German and English. I experience multiple invisible disabilities. I grew up around the Great Lakes region, living in both Michigan and Ontario throughout my youth. Experiences and aspects of my own identity and social locations are always interacting within me and the work I do as clinician, supervisor, educator and documentarian. I am committed to provide support that affirms all the social locations of those whom I serve. I am also committed to continually work to identify and counteract any elements of my own privilege as they arise. I am a strong lover of art history, especially art that traces and tells stories relating to the journeys of humankind. My goal in all the work I do is to support individuals honoring their creative process, personal strengths, and intersections while providing tangible opportunities for healing and growth in any facet of life. I also believe in the importance of acknowledging, questioning and creatively dismantling historical systemic power structures that have been in place and have unfairly disadvantaged individuals. To view my theoretical foundations in clinical art therapy click HERE.
Credentials:
MA: Art Therapy from Marylhurst University.
LCAT: C-10205598 Licensed certified art therapist in Oregon.
ATCB: 01-151 Nationally board certified art therapist
ATCS: Nationally certified art therapy supervisor with ATCB
Teaching Experience: Eastern Oregon University (2011-14), Marylhurst University (2016-17), Heritage University (2017-2023), Lewis & Clark College (2017-present).
Art CV: Click to view
Clinical Publications:
Creative Wellness: Art Journaling with Mindfulness (October 2016)
Creative Wellness Treatment Deck (July 2021)
Healing from Clinical Trauma Using Creative Mindfulness Techniques (September 2021)
Documentary Film Work: Click to view
Would you like to learn more about my creative offerings? Join my special google group where I post about workshops (both virtual and in-person), creative prompts for art making and much more. Click HERE to send me a message that you would like to join and I will add you.
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Creative Wellness Treatment Deck NOW AVAILABLE!
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[Image description: Book cover for the book Creative Mindfulness Techniques for Clinical Trauma Work. The writing is white with blue boarders on the top and bottom of the image. The center is an abstract painting full of swirling color.]
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[Image description: Book cover for the book Healing from Clinical Trauma Using Creative Mindfulness Techniques. The writing is white with blue boarders on the top and bottom of the image. The center is an colorful piece of art with an abstract profile of a human. The head is surrounded by yellow and blue. There is also red over a portion of the head.]
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[Image description: A new unused black art journal lays on a white surface with a white background.]
