1985 Graduate, Rick Cotroneo
I started a part-time practice in classical homeopathy. My background in Education made me a candidate to serve as a commissioner on the Accreditation Commission for Homeopathic Education in North America (ACHENA). Just as Southwestern College has grown over the years through the process of accreditation, so now I am working…
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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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"Laura Lansrud-Lopez offers the most eloquent version of consciousness-centered practice I have ever read." President Jim Nolan…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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by Jessica Ventura-Ewing
"Until You Know Yourself Happiness Cannot Come To You" ~ Yogi Tea
When thinking about the maternal lineage in my family the feeling that kept presenting itself was sadness. Not a normal type of everyday sadness but a deep seeded sadness that stemmed from birth, something that all of the…
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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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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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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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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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A bold and beautiful articulation of the Values and Understandings of the Southwestern College Art Therapy/Counseling Program faculty members. …
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A simple question. What is astrology?
I would say astrology is a way to live in connection with natural cycles of time. It is also the correlation, “as above, so below.” We are a part of a connected universe and it’s cycles. For thousands of years, people have been making correlations to the happenings…
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