What can you expect in a therapy session provided by Connect Therapies?
Anxiety, Depression, COVID Anxiety, Women’s Issues
When you begin therapy with a therapist at Connect therapies you will be greeted warmly and with openness and understanding.You will experience the presence of someone who genuinely cares and listens. You will receive feedback and suggestions for improving your mental health.
You can expect that your therapist will prepare for your next session and will review your progress and any therapy “homework” since your previous session.
You can be assured that your therapist is working hard to support you. Your therapist will guide you in techniques to decrease symptoms related to depression, anxiety, trauma, or current triggers that you may be experiencing. Your therapist will support you as you find solutions to lower anxiety or depression or to work through grief or trauma reactions. At Connect Therapies sessions are kept in confidence with the ethical exceptions that indicate harm to self or others or child or elder abuse.
Expressive Arts Therapy for Women: Gen X, Gen Z, Baby Boomers…Support for Your Journey
WELCOME GEN X, GEN Z, BOOMER WOMEN: I am glad you found your way to Connect Therapies serving Idaho and Colorado. It is a joy to work with women as a support to your life’s journey. If you are Gen X. Gen Z or a Boomer you have found a place of knowledgable support and guidance.
SUPPORT IS HERE: I have expertise in offering support through many forms of therapy including experiential therapy, breathing techniques, expressive arts therapy, DBT, narrative therapy and trauma informed care. I often include somatic sensing work when working with women.
BOTTOM UP APPROACH: I work with a bottom up strategy. This simply put means being cognizant of what is happening in the physical body, paying attention to bodily sensations and emotions and learning how this connects to what is happening in your brain. In other words your brain-body or body-brain reacts in response to your environment.
NEW WAYS TO COPE: You will learn to recognize responses, reactions, triggers. I will use therapeutic techniques to teach you skills to more than cope.Through therapy you will learn strategies to change your responses to triggers an begin to ameliorate the effects of trauma.
IMPORTANCE OF SELF-CARE: To support you on your journey I often teach self-care and mindfulness techniques to improve your day to day living and how to bring you back to center from the distractions of our busy, technologically influenced world.
Therapeutic Art Techniques: Why Utilize Art in Counseling?
As an artist I have experienced the healing power found in the process of making art.
The artistic process encourages psychological growth and healing.Please note that I am a licensed psychotherapist. I am not a registered art therapist.
If in the course of individual or group therapy an art modality in which I am trained is deemed appropriate I may employ such as a therapeutic tool. However, If in the course of therapy you would be better served by an ATR (registered art therapist) you will be referred to such.
(As an artist I lead workshops and retreats that include both artistic and therapeutic elements. These are led from the perspective of an artist and are offered as wellness activities to promote emotional health. I offer art-making in a group setting. Workshops and retreats are NOT the same as individual and group psychotherapy. You can contact me for more information regarding workshops or retreats. My work can be seen here at facebook. )
“Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics.
It brings healing.”
– Julia Cameron
Areas of Expertise:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Self-Esteem
- Creativity blocks
- Women’s issues & life transitions: Life Coaching Package Now Available!
- Trauma
- Attention Deficit Disorder & Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Some Thoughts on Expertise & Services
A certified K-12 art teacher I have taught in public and private schools: all ages including a substance abuse art group at an alternative high school. I am comfortable working with school counselors, teachers, school officials and the DHHS system.
I am experienced in providing guidance to the under-achiever, gifted & talented, Autism Spectrum, severe-profound disabilities, and down-syndrome.
I have previously provided the homeless community art groups and rehabilitative counseling.