Greetings! I am a Board Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor with over 15 years of clinical experience. I strive to help others discover and build upon personal strengths and facilitate learning of creative coping skills through the art therapy process. Some key goal areas in my current school-based position include development of positive peer relationships, facilitation of emotional-awareness & self-esteem, strengthening of fine motor skills and emotional regulation.My Specialty areas include: art assessment & treatment, group process, facilitation of mural projects, strengths-based treatment, childhood development, autism spectrum disorders, AH/HD, intellectual disabilities, adult psychiatric disorders (depression/bipolar disorder/schizophrenia/anxiety)As defined by the American Art Therapy Association, "Art therapy is a mental health profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship. .Art therapy, facilitated by a professional art therapist, effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals as well as community concerns. Art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress, and advance societal and ecological change."“Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist.” - Eileen Miller, The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art