Posted May 19th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Counseling at SWC, Art Therapy at SWC.
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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Posted May 7th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Counseling at SWC, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Art Therapy at SWC.
by Kat Dison
"Carl Jung realized that archetypes are not based on interactions and experiences between actual human beings, but on simplified characterizations. These simplified characters, or archetypes, perform roles that are essential to our understanding of the world. The magician archetype, for example, does not seek answers from external resources, but instead searches…
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Posted May 7th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More.
by Lisa Marie Paradis
Where do you hail from?
You and yours snug tightly
In between the dream
Awaken to five year old father's soul inhabited by butcher's
Chicken floating gently across
the room- enter the
back of the neck- boulders
upon the fleeing road-where
do you hail from?
barbed wire divisions in size-fait-memory-Is the
…
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Posted May 6th, 2013 by counseling center & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Consciousness & Mindfulness, SWC Blog.
After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic,
Please come to the gate immediately.
Well -- one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there.
An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress,
Just like my…
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Posted May 5th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Consciousness & Mindfulness, Student & Alumni Stories, SWC Blog.
Amy Hautman Bates
I like Robert Waterman's concept of “The Studio" – the sense that we are all one and share in one another's growth. I feel the transformation of my cohorts and feel as though I am in a way, falling in love with them! Not just in Archetypal Psychology class, which happens to…
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Posted May 4th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work, Student & Alumni Stories.
I am a 2005 alumni from the Art Therapy program. Since graduating from
SWC, I have been on many adventures as a therapist working in
home-based and outpatient settings as a youth & family therapist, and
with military populations as a traveling therapist in and outside of
the US.
I work part-time as a college…
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Posted May 4th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
Jean graduated from SWC in 2012 with a Master's degree in Counseling with concentration in Grief, Loss, and Trauma.
She is currently working as a contract BH counselor at La Clinica del Pueblo in Tierra Amarilla, NM. She says, "I work in the Rio Arriba County Detention Center one half-day a week. I work in…
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Posted May 1st, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work, SWC Blog.
Jaffa V. Frank, Ph.D.
After graduating with my M.A. in Grief, Loss, and Trauma Counseling at Southwestern College in 2008, I did hospice bereavement counseling in Albuquerque, which was cut short by serious personal health issues. Having come through surgery healthier than ever, I decided to pursue my long-time dream and in September of 2011,…
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Posted April 29th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Student & Alumni Stories.
In April 2013, I was privileged to hear Robert Waterman speak. The significance of this event is Robert Waterman founded Southwestern College, which I began attending as a Counseling student later that fall. Much of what he shared provided confirmation of that decision. I have known since I was 20 years old that becoming a…
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Posted April 26th, 2013 by Dru Phoenix & filed under Consciousness & Mindfulness, SWC Blog.
Addiction of any kind is a difficult path and can wreck havoc on loved ones as well as the person caught in the trap of addiction. It can be heart wrenching to be caught up in the grief process of a person in the midst of their addiction. Besides the vicarious grief of watching a…
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Posted April 26th, 2013 by Dru Phoenix & filed under Consciousness & Mindfulness, SWC Blog.
One primary theme in Dan Millman’s book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior is that the “time is now and you are here.”
For me, this message means you should avoid allowing your mind to get caught in the past and causing the present to fade into the shadows. Instead, you need to make an effort…
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Posted April 26th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under SWC Blog.
--from Reverend Ted Wiard
Internal Boundaries Can Lead to an Easier Day
The Taos News has committed to implement a bi-weekly column to help educate our community about emotional healing through grief. You may write questions to Golden Willow Retreat and they will be answered privately to you and possibly as a future article for…
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Posted April 24th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
by Brian Miller, M.A., LPCC
Hello dear friends and colleagues,
This has been a busy few years for me since graduating in 2008. I continue to live in Albuquerque, New Mexico with my wife and our two sons, Sebastian (age 4) and Liam (age 2), who encourage us lovingly to learn more and more about…
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Posted April 19th, 2013 by counseling center & filed under Ecotherapy.
The plant known as marijuana has long been known in the indigenous world to carry a seductive feminine energy that creates dependence, while at the same time appearing to enhance spiritual expansion. The energies of this plant, while perhaps occasionally useful in a limited ceremonial context, typically create weakness in the individual's medicine body (energy…
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Posted April 16th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
Patricia L. Meek, LPC, MFA, NFT
Noah: A Supernatural Eco Thriller was published by All Things that Matter Press and was released December 1, 2011. I began the novel while living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
My experiences at Southwestern College heavily influenced the creation of this work. Archetypes, Ancient Mysteries, and Vision Quest, were all…
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Posted April 14th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
In the Spring of 2013, I finished up supervision for my ATR and LPC in Oklahoma. Even cooler, my supervisor is also a SWC grad! I work full-time for the Cavett Kids Foundation, the same foundation where I completed my internship in 2012. With the Cavett Kids Foundation my title is "Art Therapist, Director of…
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Posted April 14th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, SWC Blog.
Kate Latimer, Santa Fe, NM
I took a hiatus from the counseling world after the birth of my daughter in April of 2011, leaving my much loved job as a counselor at Solace Crisis Treatment Center (formerly the Santa Fe Rape Crisis and Trauma Treatment Center). Becoming a mom has been an incredible initiation full…
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Posted April 12th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Counseling at SWC, Art Therapy at SWC, SWC Blog.
"Laura Lansrud-Lopez offers the most eloquent version of consciousness-centered practice I have ever read." President Jim Nolan…
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Posted April 11th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Ecotherapy, Where do SWC Grads Work.
Luisa Kolker graduated from Southwestern College, where she studied Counseling. Interestingly, I met her through Social Media, where I became aware of this really funny, transparent, and seemingly wise woman who was doing Shamanic work in Santa Fe. I knew she was a graduate of the school and thought it would be great to meet…
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Posted April 10th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Consciousness & Mindfulness, Counseling at SWC, Art Therapy at SWC, SWC Blog.
One of the last classes offered to students at SWC before they launch into internship and graduation is Career and Life Development, well placed as a stepping stone into life after school. I have been teaching one or more sections of this class for the last three years. Always in the first class, many students…
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Posted April 10th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
Rosemary Eads, M.A. My private practice is now located in Northborough, Massachusetts. I moved here in April of 2011, and within nine months, began my first ever waiting list! I specialize in working with subconscious beliefs, behaviors and traumas, as well as guiding my clients to develop a fuller awareness of their higher self. I use…
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Posted April 9th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
Sara (Jordan) Skowronski, LPC, ATR-BC, CAGS (certificate of advanced graduate studies in Expressive arts).
I graduated in 2004 from the Art Therapy Program. Since that time I have greatly appreciated the ability of “being present” that Southwestern instilled in me as a therapist and as a person in general. Presently, my family and I, which…
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Posted April 9th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Ecotherapy, Where do SWC Grads Work.
Niccole Toral has been working with Sangre De Cristo Community Health Partnership, a nonprofit organization providing rural based behavioral health services since 2010. In addition, she and her husband Tod DiCecco have started up their own business called EarthSpirit Awakenings, LLC. Their business offers Vision Fasts as well as other Eco therapies, such as Medicine Walks,…
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Posted April 9th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
Trixie Pujol is doing early intervention work with children ages 1-4 years old in Los Alamos and Santa Fe, primarily with kids with autism, and runs a monthly support group for parents and caregivers of children with autism. She recently attended the World Autism Congress in Cape Town, South Africa where nearly 1,000 people from…
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Posted April 4th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
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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Posted April 4th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
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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Posted April 3rd, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
1998 Grad, Gretchen Wachs, M.A., LPCC
Having worked as a visual artist for most of my life puts me in a unique position as a creative psychotherapist, as I am no stranger to the deep psychological work that goes hand in hand with true creative investigation. This works in reverse as well, and I truly…
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Posted April 3rd, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
1996 Grad, Susan Boyes
I live and work in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I have a part-time position as an art therapist for traumatic brain injured adults in a rehabilitation center. I also have a thriving private practice, providing art therapy to TBI clients and others in their own homes, or in my office. I…
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