Individual Consulting
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Licensure and credentials:
LCAT: Licensed certified art therapist with OHL #ART-C-205598
ATR-BC: Ntionally board certified art therapist with the ATCB
ATCS: Certified art therapy supervisor with the ATCB
BA has been providing mental health services since 1999 and teaching since 2011.
Topics of consultation might include:
Licensure and credentials:
LCAT: Licensed certified art therapist with OHL #ART-C-205598
ATR-BC: Ntionally board certified art therapist with the ATCB
ATCS: Certified art therapy supervisor with the ATCB
BA has been providing mental health services since 1999 and teaching since 2011.
Topics of consultation might include:
- Private practice: Marketing, messaging and branding, navigating mental health systems, online presence, maintaining an art practice and an artist identity, preparation for publication and presentation proposals
- Gender expression: Contributing to the decolonization of gender norms in the work place and beyond
- Disability Justice
- Clinical support: Continuing education and advising on therapeutic options for clients including interventions and case management strategies
- Team support in non-profit agencies: team strategy, management, communication, workplace sustainability
- Careers in art therapy
- Art therapy graduate student supervision
Corporate Workshops
Experience in art making is NOT necessary for participants in any of the offerings below.
Creative Wellness: Balancing the 8 Dimensions of Wellness
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With 20+ years supporting individuals, couples and families, BA engages audience members exploring the 8 dimensions of wellness. BA references their book Creative Wellness: Art Journaling with Mindfulness an interactive workbook outlining the basic eight dimensions of wellness, while incorporating creativity to find balance in them. This workshop is designed to highlight realistic and concrete ways to manage struggles in every day life. Participants will reflect and explore strengths and struggles they may encounter in their own daily self-care. Audience members will leave with their own copy and their process already started with Beth Ann. This manuscript provides tangible tools and continued self-support using realistic exercises in creativity to carry forth the work started in the initial session. (Books may be ordered in larger quantities at a discounted rate.)
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What is art therapy?In this interactive talk, BA will provide a thorough overview of the field of art therapy outlining and discussing a brief history of art therapy, clinical theories, properties of art materials, as well as discuss the importance of having a master's in art therapy when using it in mental health treatment.
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Team Development and SupportBA has worked in community mental health since 1999, working on teams with psychiatrists, medical practitioners, school based professionals, case workers, probation officers to name a few. In addition to providing mental health services, BA has also provided support for teams of individuals in the support field around vicarious trauma in work, communication, community and the importance of self-care.
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Creative Team BuildingIs your team stuck in a pattern resulting in poor productivity and morale? BA has designed multiple ways to make your team more effective using the creative process. They begin by examining the dynamics of your team. Group meetings may include the expressive arts, but will focus on creative problem solving, communication, patterns and strategies that will improve the cohesiveness of your team. This workshop may be a one-time event or developed into on-going support for teams depending on your need.
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Creative MindfulnessMindfulness/meditations and art making in response. In this workshop participants explore their problem solving potential while taking creative risks. Using guided meditation, BA will guide participants through one or more exercises and then lead reflection discussion. Afterwards participants will use art materials to explore their process in a quiet art making state. Afterwards, BA leads a final interactive discussion reflecting on the art process. Through the entire process participants will access new perspectives to self-perception, self-care and day to day stress. Take-aways include mindfulness resources.
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Art Journaling
Utilizing some of the concepts of the eight dimensions of wellness in Beth Ann’s book and an art journal, participants will explore a variety of methods they might use in their art journaling practice. In this workshop they will begin with a guided prompt and leave with access to free on-going support after the workshop through Beth Ann’s Wellness Newsletter that incorporates a journal prompt in each edition. Blank journals available for purchase.
