Creative Continuing Education for Therapists: Recent Episodes
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Guest post by Kendra McGivney, LCSW, REAT Do you ever feel at a loss for ideas? I was meeting with a 17 year old client the other day. At the start of session, she told me she’d written a poem about the hard time she was having. I wanted it to be inspiring or full […]
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A story about Smoke Detectors It was 4 in the morning. My husband and I had been shocked into waking by screaming smoke detectors. We scrambled out of bed without talking. Groggy and annoyed by the beeping I was grateful for my earplugs and decided keep them in. Greg brought a ladder from the […]
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by Kendra McGivney, LCSW, REAT Kendra McGivney is the co-writer and facilitator of ArtKey. Do you ever sit across from a client on a computer screen and wonder how the heck did I get here? When I signed up for this field, there was no part of me that thought I would be […]
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Yesterday, I threw rocks into the Salish Sea and then I floated. I hesitated to write this post this because it borders on cliché—well, actually it IS a cliché. And then I remembered how most of you are okay with that. My cliché’s, my metaphors, my inspiration—you receive it so beautifully. And, sometimes you tell […]
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When someone so passionate and creative and beautiful believes in you, it means everything. Susan was my professor first, and then my art therapist. In class she handed a thin strip of paper to each of us. She held the strips fanned out in her hand and walked around the classroom to personally deliver the […]
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Closing my doors After 16 years in private practice I’ve closed my doors. From my initial decision — to the months of transition — and now the actual closure, it’s been a profound process. (If you missed my initial announcement, you can read more about my transition here and here and here. Historically, I’ve been terrible at goodbyes. […]
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We can learn from people at the end. When people are at the end—end of life, end of a relationship, end of a long hard project—they have a unique viewpoint that can only be gained from having lived through it to the very end. I’ve always listened a bit harder to the folks who are […]
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The other day, at coffee, Hannah reminded me that artists work in series. She was talking about her own work—completing a couple of big commissions and her show at the Pence Gallery that I was about to see. She was in-between projects and inspiration. She knew it and was trying to tolerate the patience with […]
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I’m facing my biggest creative project ever! I’m moving. As in, moving my whole life. Not just to the office next door or to the house down the street (which is what I did 7 years ago). I’m really and truly packing everything up and sending it across 2 state lines in stacked pods on […]
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In a therapy session, the details are everything To a therapist, just like an artist, the little details are everything. When we sit with a client we track physiological responses, posture, eye contact, tone of voice, reactivity, activation, our own responses—the list is practically inexhaustible. Most of us are naturals at this and are just […]
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