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.
In Dance Movement Therapy (a Creative Arts Therapy), therapists use a variety of tools. As a person who is trained in the Halprin Method, one tool is the use of drawn images. When I work with clients I use art … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, creative arts therapy, Dance Movement Therapy
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Tagged active imagination, clients, creative arts, dance therapy, jung, metaphors, movement therapy, Psychotherapy, self understanding, subconscious, symbols, universality
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