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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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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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Albuquerque is 64 miles Southwest of Santa Fe and has many fun things to check out this holiday season! Take the Rail Runner or drive down i25 and explore the Duke City.
Go to Big Jim’s Winter of Enchantment event at the southeast corner of Coors and Montaño near Sprouts and Bosque School: 4140…
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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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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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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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"Laura Lansrud-Lopez offers the most eloquent version of consciousness-centered practice I have ever read." President Jim Nolan…
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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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A bold and beautiful articulation of the Values and Understandings of the Southwestern College Art Therapy/Counseling Program faculty members. …
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Ceremony is inside of us
Sprinkled with stardust from galaxies that made us
Ceremony is inside of us
Walking in harmony with the mother’s beat
Hand within its wisdom’s dirt
Ceremony is inside of us
A sun dance of sunlight drumming tapestry
Ceremony is inside of us
Exchanging breath blessing with vision…
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The School Counseling Concentration entails two additional courses added to the M.A. in Counseling, M.A. in Art Therapy/Counseling, and the M.A. in Art Therapy for Clinical Professionals degree programs. The School Counseling concentration is specifically oriented to the State of New Mexico requirements for the School Counseling credential. If you are interested in school…
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BA in Psychology, New Mexico State University. M.A. Counseling, University of New Mexico
Brian is a licensed professional clinical counselor and a nationally recognized trainer in the treatment of addictions. He trains and consults for programs that are implementing evidence-based interventions to treat addictions. He also facilitates workshops to increase cross-cultural counseling skills, treating co-occurring…
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Ron is the Landscaping Director at Southwestern College. You have seen him around a thousand times, and if you’re lucky, you have had opportunities to talk with him. He is a really interesting guy, with a wide and colorful background.
Ron was born in Chicago, and, well---I’ll let him tell you…
“I grew up…
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Zachary Campbell, M.A., LPCC
began working in Coon Rapids, MN as the Assistant Director of Housing with Services for Mary T. Inc. Mary T. Inc. provides enhanced lifestyles through affordable rental housing, apartments for seniors, residential living, supportive services, hospice, and home health care. Zachary lives in Plymouth, MN with his wife and two children. …
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During my Masters Program at Southwestern College, I obtained a certificate as a Gestalt Therapist by the Gestalt Institute of Santa Fe. I graduated from Southwestern College in March 2006 and began working at Life Healing Center full-time as the evening therapist. Because of the combination of training, I had the confidence to take the…
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by Gabby Valdez, A Truly Beautiful Girl
My hat is off to Gabby for her courage in enhancing our consciousness about body types and the way cultural values can impact our entire lives.
PLEASE watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuLCttD5Ng…
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I have been in a private practice setting with Urban Balance in Chicago since 2011, painting and blogging about my work.
Alicia Hoffman, LPC
Psychotherapist
Urban Balance, LLC
www.urbanbalance.com
Here is an excerpt from Alicia's blog:
I created this piece in 2004 as part of heuristic research project in my second year of grad school…
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by Megan Sturges, © 2012
My practice in the studio is about giving life to the unconscious image in specific form through my hands and eyes – bringing it into this world of color and form through the embodied sense of yes or no, here or there, connecting, separating, line, shape, object, pattern. Like dreams,…
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As I move towards facilitating my last mural painting process at Southwestern College, I am thinking about relationships, legacy and love. Debbie Schroder and I have co-facilitated this process since 2013, and since the pandemic of 2020 the process has undergone many changes (see Group Murals During a Pandemic and Cracked Wide Open).
The mural…
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By Val Valentine
Wow, what a difference a month can make! I went from a full private practice with between 25-30 face to face clients a week, to 15-20 clients per week with every session either on-line or by phone; some clients ready and discharged and some needing to take a break during this time…
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