I am excited to share with you all that I have an abundance of sites to run art rooms with clients this year. Hopefully my direct client hours will add up fast so I can get my career on the move! So here is a short list of what I am doing:
1) Running an open studio once a week with withdrawl management services. This is a sobering center and the clients I work with are in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Some coupled with mental illness. The art serves as a vehicle for understanding the process of recovery and self care.
2) Working with a recreation therapist and an occupational therapist in the new patient care center at the Royal Jubilee Hospital. A one hour open studio that runs everyday (I am there mondays and fridays) for adult mental health inpatients. The clients I work with are hospitalized and treated for moderate to severe mental illness. The art work serves as a distraction while they are in the hospital and is very popular.
3) Co-facilitation of an art therapy group for transitioning through loss. This group will run, Sept-Oct at the South Island counseling center. I am happy to be working with my friend and art therapist in training Frances. We will be exploring through art directives where we sit with loss, where we could potentially go after grief, and how to get there safely.
4)Another group with Frances at Saint Georges Anglican church. We will be exploring spirituality through Art Therapy. How can we experience our spirituality through art making, worship, and relationship. This group will run late september through October.
5) Not confirmed yet but a good possibility. Running a 4-6 week Art therapy group with youth and young adults who are first psychotic break in-patients. This group would start in January and I would be working with a social worker and a nurse. I am so excited for this one if it comes through! It will be challenging, but working at multiple sites in the hospital gives me lots of connections and experience.I hope it works out!
There you have it. My year at a glance!! I am excited to share more as it comes. Thanks for reading!
Blessings,
M
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