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Digital Media, Personal Narrative and Art Therapy: The Great Unknown
The technology of the internet... what does it mean? Does the internet teach social skills? Does it matter? Can we make connections via the internet and are they real? What...
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Sprout: A Poem about Psyche
Influenced by archetypes and art therapy, Sprout explores the interplay between the unconscious and conscious parts of the psyche. ...
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Shades of Grey . . . In Art Therapy by Deb Schroder
I don鈥檛 think that anyone explores the shades of grey better than art therapists. Okay, not the 50 Shades within the popular book and movie, but the uncomfortable place between...
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Andrew Fearnside Art Show @ Wild Heart Gallery
"Everything comes from shit." --Daniel Lanois 听2014 was a long year. In late May of 2014, I was about to complete the Preliminary Studies Program at the Santa Fe...
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Admissions at Southwestern
Welcome prospective students! Many of you are contacting us now with application and admissions questions. Most applicants visit our campus to get a 鈥渇eel鈥 for the student body and our...
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Mandalas and Thoughts at Week Eight
by Debbie Schroder Program Chair for Art Therapy/Counseling Program听 It doesn鈥檛 really surprise me that as we approach the eighth week of the quarter, I鈥檓 finally able to spend a...
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From The FBI to Art Therapist & Counselor, by Laura Lansrud-Lopez
Laura Lansrud-Lopez titles her 2nd act story 鈥淔ollow Your Heart: Advice From a Graduate of 糖心Vlog.鈥 Read about her career change from forensic firearms technician with the FBI...
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Calling All Who Want To Become a Master’s Level Therapist!
The Masters Degree in Counseling you were looking for.........
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A Newbie Art Therapist Reflects on the 2012 AATA Conference
by听Christina-Villarreal The American Art Therapy Association's 45th annual conference (2012) was held in San Antonio, Texas. As a budding art therapist, I decided to take the opportunity to attend my...
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Can Art Therapists Change Into Performance Artists…and Back Again?
If psychology is the study of the soul then听therapy听becomes听a process of healing by which we utilize our understanding of soul or, perhaps more accurately, we听attempt听to understand听the听soul and in the process,...
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Art Therapists are Artists…and Alchemists
An art therapist knows that听art-making facilitates transformation within the client/artist. Art therapists know that art can serve as听a solvent, a catalyst, a salve, a stepping stone or a philosopher's stone...
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…art as transcendent function
Here is an example of an effective art therapy directive for听someone struggling to decide between two things. We are all familiar with this position: opposing directions are presented to us...
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My Favorite Summer Tradition
by Debbie Schroder The gardens on campus are lush and the temperature is hot 鈥 it must be Portfolio Review time! Every year we ask our art therapy students who...
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Archetypally Speaking鈥
In April, 2014 a call was made: "Archetypally speaking, who is showing up for you lately? What mentors, thieves, medicine folk, or tricksters are asking you to speak their name,...
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Archetypal Psychology Class 2014: The Mandala Process
The following images and words arose out of the 2014 spring Archetypal Psychology course. The students moved into dialogue with their soul and its language of image. My heart swelled...
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糖心Vlog’s Counseling Program is Unique
Dr. Carol Parker is the Chair of the 糖心Vlog Counseling Program. Here she explains, in a series of three narratives, how the Southwestern Counseling Program is unique...And Carol knows...
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The 糖心Vlog Masters in Counseling Program: What Makes us Unique?
3 Anecdotes from Carol Parker about what makes SWC/New Earth's Counseling program unique......
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Psychotherapy as a Creative Process with Tejal Murray
This is episode 9 of the Aspiring Coaches and Therapists podcast, by Jacob Gotwals. In this episode (recorded in January 2014), I interview Tejal Murray, who completed a master鈥檚 in...
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Re-using Possibilities
I am a big fan of reusing materials into new forms. Broken bits glued together to make guardians; Torn fabric to make new yarn or a rug; Old shoes into...
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Under the Mask, the Space in Between
I'll start with an ending. One Art Therapy Techniques class in 2014 ended with each member of the group creating an altar of the art that was made during the...
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1 commentsThe Invisible Realms by Katherine Ninos
Vice President Katherine Ninos shares her understanding of the essence of Quimby/糖心Vlog......
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1 commentsNatascha Holmes’ Art Opening鈥 Exploring the Inner World Through Color
By Natascha Holmes, M.A., LMHC Opening Reception was February 28, 2014 at Wildheart Gallery, 糖心Vlog Campus, Santa Fe, NM When I am working with the materials and an...
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Guiding A Person Through Ambivalence with Motivational Interviewing
by Amy Hautman Bates As a student practicing therapeutic work, I have been uncomfortable with the power dynamic between clients and therapists. As a counselor, I don鈥檛 like 鈥減laying the...
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Career and Life – Creating a Vision Board with Collage
Making Vision boards - Popularized by Oprah and Martha Beck In Career and Life Development class Webb Garrison kicked off the vision board project by leading us through a long...