The Trauma Therapist The Creative Process & Trauma. Lisa Mitchell LMFT, ATR, LPC: from the archives
Jun 28, 2023
34:21
This is a republishing of an archived episode with Lisa Mitchell.
"When we stay closely and non-judgmentally with someone exploring pain we find beauty in the midst of the ruins."
-Saki Santorelli, Heal Thyself
Lisa Mitchell LMFT, ATR, LPC is the author of Creativity as Co-Therapist: The Practitioner’s Guide to the Art of Psychotherapy (Routledge 2016). An art therapist, she has specialized in helping teens and adults use art and creative expression to overcome anxiety, depression, and trauma for 20+ years.
Lisa’s online and in-person workshops are popular for the in-depth, hands-on creative experiences she facilitates to help therapists find unique ways of approaching the therapeutic process as a creative one. Lisa is also the organizer and host of Create Fest, an annual online creativity festival that provides inspiration and education for therapists to "Get out the box and into their right mind."
Lisa partners with her own creativity through writing, knitting, and painting. Her blog features reflections on all creative endeavors (including therapy) at www.innercanvas.com.
In This Episode
Lisa’s Go-To Books
What’s new with The Trauma Therapist Project!
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.
"When we stay closely and non-judgmentally with someone exploring pain we find beauty in the midst of the ruins."
-Saki Santorelli, Heal Thyself
Lisa Mitchell LMFT, ATR, LPC is the author of Creativity as Co-Therapist: The Practitioner’s Guide to the Art of Psychotherapy (Routledge 2016). An art therapist, she has specialized in helping teens and adults use art and creative expression to overcome anxiety, depression, and trauma for 20+ years.
Lisa’s online and in-person workshops are popular for the in-depth, hands-on creative experiences she facilitates to help therapists find unique ways of approaching the therapeutic process as a creative one. Lisa is also the organizer and host of Create Fest, an annual online creativity festival that provides inspiration and education for therapists to "Get out the box and into their right mind."
Lisa partners with her own creativity through writing, knitting, and painting. Her blog features reflections on all creative endeavors (including therapy) at www.innercanvas.com.
In This Episode
Lisa’s Go-To Books
- Creativity as Co-Therapist: The Practitioner’s Guide to the Art of Psychotherapy
- Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine, Saki Santorelli
- Irv Yalom
- Studio Art Therapy: Cultivating the Artist Identity in the Art Therapist, Catherine Moon
What’s new with The Trauma Therapist Project!
- The Trauma 5: gold nuggets from my 700+ interviews
- The Trauma Therapist Newsletter: a monthly resource of information and inspiration dedicated to trauma therapists.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.