By Kathryn Snyder, MA, ATR-BC, LPC | January 20, 2016 | Health Care BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG The postpartum period in the family life cycle is one that is fraught with ambivalence and anxiety. While a new mother’s body is flooded with the oxytocin meant to link her...
By Michelle L. Dean, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, CGP | January 13, 2016 | Health Care BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG As the New Year unfolds, we may find ourselves inundated with messages to make resolutions, lose weight, and commence rigorous exercise programs in order to feel fit,...
By Gioia Chilton, Ph.D., ATR-BC and Rebecca Wilkinson, MA, ATR-BC | January 6, 2016 | About Art Therapy BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG Although masks are ubiquitous to art therapy, when we were recently asked to run several mask-making workshops we realized that we were both...
By Sangeetha Ravichandran, MAAT, ATR, LPC | December 9, 2015 | About Art Therapy | Community | Trauma BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG ApnaGhar, Inc., (“Our Home” in Urdu/Hindi,) provides holistic services, education, and advocacy across immigrant communities to end the...
By Raquel Chapin Stephenson, Ph.D., ATR-BC, LCAT | November 25, 2015 | Health Care BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG William Utermohlen, a professional artist, recorded his cognitive decline through self-portraiture (Grady, 2006). Incredibly brave and astute, his visual...
By Abbien Crowley Ciucci, MA, ATR-BC, LPC and Hope Heffner, MA, ATR-BC, LPC | November 18, 2015 | Health Care | Children BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG The diagnosis of a serious illness is often life-altering. When given to a child, the news of disease can be indescribable....
