"I MERELY TOOK THE ENERGY IT TAKES TO POUT AND WROTE SOME BLUES." - DUKE ELLINGTON
ABOUT ME/CONTACT
An Expressive Arts sensibility is central to my worldview, work, life, and social activism. Over the past 15 years, I have cultivated a varied work life. I am an integrative, neuroscience informed psychotherapist, a narrative freelance journalist, a graphic design artist, and an expressive arts advocate.
As a freelance narrative journalist (ASJA member), my work covers wide-ranging human-interest issues focusing on health recovery, the arts, and resiliency. Understanding place and context are central values in my writing. My storytelling has a narrative journalistic lens, and is informed by my education in academia, mental health, social work, and community advocacy.
I have written for PBS: Next Avenue, Coping with Cancer Magazine, American Brain Tumor Association, Post-Polio Health International, and Advance for Occupational Therapy. See my Articles page for a gallery of my magazine publications.
I also have a passionate interest in the Expressive Arts– in movement, visual arts, drama, writing, and music. I am always on the lookout for the narrative thread of how artistic skills enable us to re-imagine our lives when facing challenges. My clinical work will be evolving into a new chapter in the next season of my journey; I am currently completing my certification at the Center for Creative Arts therapy in Chicago toward becoming a (REAT) Registered Expressive Arts Therapist. My goal is to bring the therapeutic arts to communities in need.
My current art practice includes arts advocacy; I am on the advisory board for the Rockland Music Conservatory and art-creating. I am also a graphic design artist exploring themes of "Recovery, Unfolding & Discovery" through words, imagery, and color. My first Art Exhibit will be a fundraiser for Rockland Independent Living Center (dba) BRIDGES. (Exhibit date pending COVID restrictions)
As a freelance narrative journalist (ASJA member), my work covers wide-ranging human-interest issues focusing on health recovery, the arts, and resiliency. Understanding place and context are central values in my writing. My storytelling has a narrative journalistic lens, and is informed by my education in academia, mental health, social work, and community advocacy.
I have written for PBS: Next Avenue, Coping with Cancer Magazine, American Brain Tumor Association, Post-Polio Health International, and Advance for Occupational Therapy. See my Articles page for a gallery of my magazine publications.
I also have a passionate interest in the Expressive Arts– in movement, visual arts, drama, writing, and music. I am always on the lookout for the narrative thread of how artistic skills enable us to re-imagine our lives when facing challenges. My clinical work will be evolving into a new chapter in the next season of my journey; I am currently completing my certification at the Center for Creative Arts therapy in Chicago toward becoming a (REAT) Registered Expressive Arts Therapist. My goal is to bring the therapeutic arts to communities in need.
My current art practice includes arts advocacy; I am on the advisory board for the Rockland Music Conservatory and art-creating. I am also a graphic design artist exploring themes of "Recovery, Unfolding & Discovery" through words, imagery, and color. My first Art Exhibit will be a fundraiser for Rockland Independent Living Center (dba) BRIDGES. (Exhibit date pending COVID restrictions)
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"Art allows us to bear the chaos without denial or flight.”