Father of New Thought
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby is widely recognized as the “Father of New Thought”, since the essence of the movement is rooted in the interpretation of his teachings and healing practices.
Earlier in life, Quimby developed tuberculosis but experienced no benefits from the medical treatment of his time.…
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By Courtney Shackelford
The brain is special and magnificent, strange and mysterious. It is powerful enough to send messages to assist in regulating our bodies, but is also a vulnerable 3 pound organ encased in bone and liquid to keep it safe from the various hazards of the world. A millennium later, humans still do…
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<-- 1999 2001 -->Judy Branham is a social worker in the Lovelace psychiatric unit in Albuquerque, NM where she has been for about five years. She is currently cutting back to part-time and considering expanding into other areas of interest by brushing up her counseling skills. Judy is most appreciative of SWC and remembers what a…
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Drew Hutchinson is a body oriented therapist and educator with 15 years of experience working with clients and teaching. Drew received his Master’s in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University with a focus on Transpersonal Dimensions of Psychotherapy including Existential, Humanistic and Somatic Specialties. After graduating Drew attended trainings with the Northern California Psychoanalytic…
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Calling All visionaries!
By Ann Filemyr, PhD. President and Founder/Director of the
in PhD Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership
The new transdisciplinary PhD in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership at Southwestern College in Santa Fe features a unique approach. This low residency doctoral degree is designed to support adult learners who seek to…
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Monica Mody, PhD, MFA, is a transdisciplinary educator, poet, writer, and theorist at the intersections of earth-based wisdom, whole person philosophy, and embodied regenerative consciousness. She comes to her teaching and writing as a border-crossing and cross-genre practitioner interested in the resilient knowing of the body as a site for connection with vaster, more fluid…
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Licensed Psychologist, Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Dr. Calvert is the Director of the Ecotherapy Certificate Program. She has studied mindfulness for the past 18 years and has taught classes, courses, workshops, and retreats. Rochelle leads classes/courses/seminars in Six-week Introductory Training in Mindfulness, (S.I.T.), Awake in the Wild- Nature-Based Mindfulness retreats, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy…
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Southwestern College is accredited through the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) to offer four Master of Arts degrees (Counseling; Art Therapy/Counseling; Art Therapy for Clinical Professionals; Consciousness in Action) and our Ph.D. in Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership. HLC is our regional accreditor, and our accreditation through them allows our students to access Department…
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The prospects for employment in the mental health field in today’s world are quite bright. Our art therapy and counseling graduates are finding jobs before or soon after graduation. They are working in mental health clinics, hospitals, recovery centers, schools, nursing homes and in private practice. They are working with the elderly, children, infants, families…
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Dr. Fisher, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, artist, educator and fearologist and is founder and director of In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, The Fearology Center, and hosts the Fearlessness Movement ning as a social platform for building community and sharing resources on the impacts, individual and collective, of the culture of fear. He holds…
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Welcome prospective students! Many of you are contacting us now with application and admissions questions.
Most applicants visit our campus to get a “feel” for the student body and our faculty and staff. Of course, there is also the advantage of spending a long weekend in Santa Fe enjoying the art and outdoors! Our visitors…
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Arthur Panaro, M.A., LPCC, 1994
In the early '90's wondering where to study, I met Robert Waterman, and I am glad I took his counsel: "Just look at where you keep showing up." I did, and it worked out beautifully. Graduation in 1994 launched me into the field at La Nueva Vida, and then at…
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<-- 2003 2005 -->
BeeBee Brinn lives in Bamberg, Germany and works with the Dept. of Defense Dependents Education Activity (DoDEA) on a US military base at a middle/high school. Beverly is working as a middle school counselor, a speech/language pathologist for 7th-12th graders, and teaching a middle school Study Skills elective class. “It is…
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The Alchemical Possibilities of Failure
by Alicia Hoffman
“My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.” - Bono.
I agree with Bono; surviving a mistake or a perceived failure and transforming it into wisdom or a life lesson is inspiring. If you do…
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<-- 2005 2007 -->
Julie Knose
Hey all! I'm finally doing an alumni update, ten years later! I loved my time at Southwestern College in the Art Therapy program. Two months after graduation, I moved home to Ohio because my dad was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. He died four months later in…
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<-- 2004 2006 -->
Heather Aviles is working at Linden Oaks Hospital in Naperville, IL in the special intensity unit doing a lot of art therapy with her clients. She and her husband are about to celebrate their second anniversary, and they have a new addition: they have been given guardianship of…
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<-- 1980's 1991 -->
Darlene Riggins is working as an elementary school counselor (K-5) in Tigard, Oregon. The school is 85% Mexican, and is a culmination of all her past experiences. “I love working with the children, families and staff at the school. The universe has smiled down upon me.” Darlene plans…
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Photo by Alissa Petrosoniak
Welcome to Southwestern Soundbites-- quick audio clips featuring current students, staff, and faculty discussing SWC's various certificate programs. This episode features Courtney Shackelford, current student in the Art Therapy and Counseling program and also admissions staff, and Dru Phoenix, alum of the Art Therapy and Counseling program and Director of Enrollment…
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New Mexico State Independent License
2 years post-graduate experience
3,000 hours of client contact (1,000 from internship)
100 hours of face-to-face supervision
Application (Notarized)
$75 Cost
Current Passport-sized Photo (2"x 2")
Official Transcript
Verification of Post-Graduate Supervision Hours
Receive temporary LPCC
Apply for Exam (NCMHCE)
Application
Regulations
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Is there Drama Therapy at Southwestern College?
By Allegra Borghese
At Southwestern College we incorporate many modes and traditions of healing
into the classroom. For first year students in Consciousness I, we were
asked to represent our findings of a research project through an interactive
performance. While the introverted part of me was not…
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My wife Fern, foster daughter Kari, doggie Otto, and I are homesteading on our land in Lyle, WA where we have a 10,000 square foot vegetable "patch," solar power, and wood cooker. We are currently crammed into a tiny yurt, but we are building a new home during our spare time evenings and weekends. http://homesweetyurt.wordpress.com/.
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Carol Christianson
I graduated in 1995 and worked in the mental health field as a counselor in various agencies in NM, eventually becoming an academic advisor for 7 years. In 2007, I decided to take time off from counseling and started a business doing American Clay installations. This is a plastering process that is eco-friendly…
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Sandra Ingerman, M.A., LMFT, LPCC, is a board certified expert on traumatic stress as well as certified in acute traumatic stress management. She was awarded the 2007 Peace Award from the Global Foundation for Integrative Medicine. Sandra was chosen as one of the Top Ten Spiritual Leaders of 2013 in the November/December 2013 Issue of…
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1990 Grad, Michele “Ama Wehali” Rozbitsky has developed a domestic violence program for the Eight Northern Pueblos called ‘Peace Keepers’, worked as a crisis counselor, art therapist and in outpatient mental health services at St. Vincent’s Hospital, and in private practice. In the last six years she has become a Shamanic practitioner and has written…
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