Category Archives: Professional Topics

With great excitement I announce the formation of Dallas Art Therapy.  This non-profit serves to help bring art therapy services to the Dallas Community.  Many small organizations that provide excellent mental health care to our community have reached out wanting … Continue reading →

In art therapy, perfectionism emerges from the first moment. Perfectionist habits must be abandoned to create. One must be brave and risk humiliation, rejection, and tolerate anxiety. One of my joys in life is watching clients find comfort in their … Continue reading →

April 2017 We gathered to see “A Story I have to Tell”.   Women from various cultural ad genetic backgrounds gathered and shared stories.  We met on the final day of Barak Obama’s day in office and as Trump stepped … Continue reading →

January 2017 is the release date of this new book.  It is to be used in college courses to teach ethics to future licensed counselors.  I wrote my chapter while fostering and most of it was written while laying on … Continue reading →

At the conference in Baltimore I attended a full day course about the history of and making of story cloths.   In the spirit of telling “a story that needs to be told”, I invite participants to join me in … Continue reading →

Last week I had the privilege to travel to Baltimore and attend the American Art Therapy Conference.  Here are some photos from the week.

I am so very excited to announce that Jamie Heavey, LPC, ATR and myself are working to establish a non profit Expressive Art Therapy Studio in Dallas!   We are currently writing our business plan which is a lengthy and … Continue reading →

This month has seen a few changes.  I have relocated my office to 9550 Forest Lane, Suite 715 – F.   I enjoyed my time at the White Rock location but a move was forced when the build was sold … Continue reading →