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About RichardB

I am trained and work as a Creative Arts Therapist specializing in group therapy. I have passionately studied, worked, and taught as a hands-on practitioner of the Creative/Expressive and Healing Arts since 1983 integrating various modalities working in a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings. I currently provide Creative Arts and Counseling services to nonprofit agencies as well as occasionally teaching classes and workshops in communities of faith. I use compassion and acceptance to create an environment that is safe and nurturing for all individuals and groups. In my spare time I engage in research and write articles on a variety of subjects, create: poems, music, abstract artwork, and photograph nature.

Recovery Check list handout

Posted on August 28, 2018 by RichardB

Accept that you have an addiction. Practice honesty in your life. Learn to avoid high-risk situations. Learn to ask for help. The most difficult path of recovery is doing it alone. Practice calling friends before you have cravings. Become actively … Continue reading →

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Coloring Page Mandala

Posted on August 27, 2018 by RichardB
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The Creative Life and Well-Being

Posted on August 24, 2018 by RichardB

The Creative Life is full of new possibilities, discoveries, exploration, experimentation, self-expression, and invention. It’s a habit, a way of being, a style of existing. But is the Creative Life full of well-being? Depends on how you define well-being. In … Continue reading →

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How To Talk About Your Feelings

Posted on August 21, 2018 by RichardB
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Coloring Page Mandala

Posted on August 20, 2018 by RichardB
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Creativity

Posted on August 17, 2018 by RichardB

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. Bill Moyers

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Medication And Addiction

Posted on August 14, 2018 by RichardB

Drug treatment providers in California and elsewhere have relied for decades on abstinence and therapy to treat addicts. In recent years, they’ve turned to medication. Faced with a worsening opiate epidemic and rising numbers of overdose deaths, policymakers are ramping … Continue reading →

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