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Still glowing from Friday's incredible arts-based wellness retreat with mobile health workers via the NYC Health + Hospitals partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art called HHArt of Medicine.

It was so wonderful to be featured on the latest episode of the "Securely Attached" podcast with Dr. Sarah Bren.

Good parents can be both attuned to and easily triggered by their kids. They're correlated.

Parenting, from the start, requires a constant juggling of other's needs with your own. It is a fine art that looks messy, imperfect, and always evolving. And, like a work of art in progress, it is beautifully, uniquely, yours to create.

I am so excited to share my latest passion project with you: a participatory perinatal picture book called The Days Before I Met You.

The overhead view of artmaking in progress and scattered supplies beautifully captures the burst of creative energy that flowed through today’s wellness workshop. Busy, bright, layered, bold, playful!

With last week’s mini earthquake in NYC and the surrounding tri-state area, and today’s solar eclipse literally on the horizon, it can feel both exciting and unsettling to experience natural phenomena that are outside of our control.

Last week’s creative wellness workshops for staff at Rikers Island marked a true highlight in my 15 year career as an art therapist.

Politics is personal when your country is in crisis. Cory Booker’s historic 25 hour speech is helping to wake up disempowered Americans and remind them what they can do on a micro level to enact positive change on a macro level.

This chilly Spring morning was spent exploring our inner and outer worlds inspired by Women's History Month and the bold mixed media art of Emma Amos.

My work is dedicated to helping new and expecting parents move that heavy pendulum from surviving to thriving. And my mental health “hack” as a perinatal art therapist and working mom of 2 is this: focus on the quality of how you are spending your time to reclaim some peace of mind.

What a gift to be able to spend this chilly Sunday in creative collaboration with The Drawing Center and The Creative Center during the 2025 Creative Center Training Institute for fellow clinicians, educators and creatives.

This evocative image from yesterday's hospital staff wellness workshop explores the power of reframing perspective, shared with permission from the artist.

Here’s a teaser of what I’ll be offering on Sun, March 9 at the Drawing Center, as part of a series of fabulous virtual and in-person workshops from my art therapy and art educator colleagues.

I finally had a chance to check out the fabulous community art show, “Beneath the Surface” at Pictor Gallery in Chelsea, NYC.

Claire Ochetsky’s powerful allegory “Chouette,” inspired me with its raw take on mothering authetically in spite of society’s impossible expectations. The protagonist reflects, “My life's work, as your mother, will be to teach you how to be yourself–and to honor however much of the wild world you have in you.”

I'm thrilled to be participating in "Beneath the Surface," a juried art show of over 40 Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (LCATs) opening in early 2025 in NYC

The German philosopher Nietzsche valued an individual's perspective and ability to create meaning in their lives. He was also an advocate of the Arts, declaring that "the essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."

It was wonderful to recently be featured on "The Feminist Mom Podcast" with fellow perinatal therapist extraordinaire Erin Spahr, LCPC, LCMHC, PMH-C of Inclusive Providers Directory.

So grateful to have been able to provide a space for the fabulous clinical team at The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) to creatively process all that is happening around and within them during an emotional election week.