Licensed Creative Art Therapist (LCAT)

2005

• Children who have had STEs
• Spiritual emergencies
• Spiritual experiences
• Teens/Young adults who have had STEs
• Other (please specify below)

Spiritual emergence due to major illness.
Spiritually transformative experience due to loss of a loved one.

• Anxiety
• Confusion
• Depression
• Feeling ungrounded
• Finding life's purpose
• Grief or loss
• Hypersensitivities
• Identity issues
• Issues related to sharing
• Relationship issues
• Struggles with value shifts
• Substance abuse
• Troubles with integration

• Art Therapy
• Authentic Movement
• Bibliotherapy
• Counseling
• Dream Interpretation
• Family/Marital
• Guided Visualization
• Humanistic
• Interpersonal
• Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
• Play Therapy
• Relational Therapy
• Sand tray Therapy
• Transpersonal
• Writing Therapy

• Individuals
• Families
• Couples

• English
• Hebrew

I have been practicing a humanistic approach to art therapy and creative counseling since 1997 with children, adolescents and adults. In the past 10 years through my education and research as a transpersonal psychologist, I have focused my practice on transpersonal development through healing trauma, embracing grief, and the integration of spiritually transformative experiences. Many of my clients who seek help in crisis, find the process I guide them through as supportive of healing and conducive for changes they had not anticipated. The mystical component of our shared, therapeutic journey is, in itself, a spiritually transformative experience. Mental imaging, creative expression, and dream reading are examples of pathways to reenter STEs and explore their many dimensions and aftereffects. Guided meditation, expressive writing, art making, contemplative photography, and mindfulness in nature, are a few examples of the tools I employ within an over-arching approach I call The Creative Encounter (which you can read more about on my website creative-encounters.us). These process-oriented activities help ground, embrace, and integrate the STE.

My personal experience with STE in the aftermath of a major illness, my graduate education, research, and experiences as therapist and educator guide my sensitivity for and appreciation of the great human potential inherent in STE when well integrated. Working with clients—whether youth or adults, individuals, couples, or families—I join them on an exploratory journey, where our encounters provide for a safe container from which to reach for the guidance of wisdom traditions, inner knowing, intuition, and creative discovery.

I believe that those who have experienced spiritual transformation are particularly sensitive to the human need for deep resonance, empathy, and listening that allows us to hear a language of another realm. Mystical teachings of both Western and Eastern traditions regard the imaginal realm as real and actual—a bridge between our material world and Spirit. In my work with individuals, couples, and families, I employ a creative approach that focuses on the power of imagery to capture complex and ineffable experiences and provide a language of transformation that transcends the limits of cognitive perception and verbal dialogue.

Huntington, NY
United States
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• 631-423-1110

Website: http://creative-encounters.us/contact.asp

• In my office
• By phone

Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays by appointment

No

Yes

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