Posted April 3rd, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
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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Posted April 3rd, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Where do SWC Grads Work.
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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Posted April 3rd, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
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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Posted April 3rd, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
Arlene Burke, M.A., LMHC, ATR
I opened a private practice in Art Therapy/Counseling. My office, Wheelhouse Studio, is next to my home in Aldea de Santa Fe. I continue to manage the studio of a local artist and work as a textile artist. I also weave in close-by grown kids, multiplying grandkids, garden, tai chi…
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Posted April 3rd, 2013 by counseling center & filed under Ecotherapy.
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Posted March 31st, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
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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Posted March 29th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Where do SWC Grads Work, Ecotherapy.
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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Posted March 29th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
Matthew David
I'm working in private practice in Santa Fe. My office is located at 1807 Second Street, in the Second Street Studio complex. I've been doing this exclusively, on a part time basis – I now say that I'm “semi-retired”- since leaving The Life Healing Center in 2006. I work with adult individuals and…
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Posted March 29th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
Lauren Taylor
Oklahoma City, OK
I graduated in 2010 with a MA in Art Therapy and Counseling, and received my LPC in February of 2013. While under supervision for my license, I worked at the Community Learning Council which is a non-profit that focuses on working with women and children who have witnessed domestic…
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Posted March 29th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
Kristin Sellke Koepke
Wauwatosa, WI
I graduated from Southwestern in 2002 with my MA in Art Therapy. Since then I have lived in Illinois, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. I have spent most of my career working with children and adolescents, many of them in the foster care system. I am now an independent contractor in…
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Posted March 29th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
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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Posted March 28th, 2013 by Laura Lansrud- Lopez & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work, SWC Blog.
Laura L. Lansrud-Lopez, M.S., M.A., LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, ACS
I was working full-time as the Family Services Program Coordinator for TeamBuilders Counseling Services when I graduated from SWC's Art Therapy / Counseling program in March, 2007. The birth of my first daughter in 2008 prompted my reluctant departure from TeamBuilders, and set me on…
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Posted March 28th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work, SWC Blog.
Heather Wulfers, ATR-BC, LPAT, LPCC
I graduated from the Art Therapy/Counseling program in March 2010 and have been working as a licensed therapist both at Southwestern Counseling Center and in private practice. As the coordinator at the counseling center, I stay connected to the College community and work with all kinds of diverse clients, which…
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Posted March 28th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
Andrew Fearnside, LMHC
I work as a psychotherapist for a small agency in Albuquerque, NM, providing treatment for a wide variety of folks with problems centered in addiction, trauma, grief and loss, depression and anxiety. I am proud to say that I am still generally delighted, and sometimes challenged, by the great mystery that life…
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Posted March 28th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.
Craig McAdams, M.A., LMHC
After returning from internship in Peru, I graduated with a Master’s in Counseling from Southwestern College in 2012 and became a member of the Board of Trustees. Now I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I am working with children and families at the Southwest Family…
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Posted March 28th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC, Where do SWC Grads Work.
Shauna Perry, M.A., LPC, ATR
I graduated from the Art Therapy/Counseling program at Southwestern College in the Fall of 2010. I am currently living in Denver, CO and working for Jewish Family Services as a school based therapist for refugee and immigrant students at two Denver Public High Schools and one Middle School. My work…
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Posted March 27th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories.
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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Posted March 25th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Consciousness & Mindfulness, SWC Blog.
Brittany, Allegra, and Noelle wearing their Inner Critics
by Amy Hautman Bates
It felt more like a kid’s birthday party than a techniques class with glitter, glue and feathers scattered across the tables. Anything goes when it came to visualizing that little voice in our head that tells us that we are not quite…
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Posted March 21st, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More.
My 2013 section of Current Trends in Art Therapy's Journey Shoes! Check out the directional video on Vimeo, which was used in Art Therapy Alliance's Six Degrees of Creativity 2.
The students seemed to enjoy the process of recreating the shoes that they brought in to class. Some brought old shoes, uncomfortable shoes, shoes with…
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Posted March 21st, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More.
I love gluing things together to create beings. Broken toys, bits of jewelry, feathers, recycling, stones, pistachio shells.. the list of gluable-together items is infinitely long!
Crone Calm Observance and her sidekick Slowdown and Protect Snail
This is a common directive that I use with clients as well, we use pieces that I have collected,…
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Posted March 20th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, SWC Blog.
by Debbie Schroder
The idea seems simple, initially. When making a Genogram (kind of a family tree) use an image instead of a square or circle (how Genograms are usually done).
Each week in my Family Art Therapy course, one or two students shared their art-based Genograms. Never doubting our…
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Posted March 18th, 2013 by Dru Phoenix & filed under Consciousness & Mindfulness, SWC Blog.
Loss has been part of life since the beginning of time. It happens in nature with the seasons, animals and natural disasters. With humanity’s evolution, especially in certain societies, loss was hushed and shelved away in some imaginary file cabinet called denial. Grief, death, loss and other “sad” words were not spoken. When there were…
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Posted March 18th, 2013 by Dru Phoenix & filed under Consciousness & Mindfulness, SWC Blog.
I think of grief as the normal and natural healing process from a loss. There are many forms of loss, including, loss of a pet, health, home, finances, dreams and hopes, motivation, Self, addiction, social status, time, and, of course, death of a loved one. Any time you experience loss you may undergo a grief…
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Posted March 17th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Consciousness & Mindfulness, SWC Blog.
A Blog on Grief and Loss, from Ted Wiard
Dear Ted,
What is the difference between grief and trauma? Sincerely, Just Interested
Dear Interested:
Thank you for your question. Unfortunately, grief and trauma are common topics in our world today. Grief is the natural emotional process of healing after a loss that allows the intensity…
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Posted March 12th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC, SWC Blog.
by Amy Hautman Bates
Watching the jellyfish at the Albuquerque Aquarium reminded me of how magical and mysterious we all are. The photos I took were perfect for my presentation about Interpersonal Neurobiology and Art Therapy for my Art Theories class at Southwestern College. Painting a watercolor helped me to visualize the brain and…
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Posted March 7th, 2013 by counseling center & filed under Ecotherapy.
Southwestern College sends interested interns to the Andean village of Maras, Peru to work with children ages 4-12 in the elementary school and in an after-school program. This region, located at 13,000 feet, is very poor due to an ongoing drought and loss of crops and animals. Men and boys leave Maras to work in…
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Posted March 5th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
3,000 Hours: Growthiness
Growthy
[Grohth-ee]
adjective. 1. Generating personal growth. 2. Transformative.
Growth. Transformation. Expanding consciousness. Meaning the development of new psychological capacities, new relationships, new understandings.
Those are the goals. I believe they're the goals of every being everywhere, including mountains and rivers and clouds, if those can be said to have…
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Posted March 2nd, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More.
I worked from pictures I took of myself, and then used pastels and ink to explore these feeling states. Working large accentuated these places, so that I could look at them outside of myself.
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