Beyond Artist's Block Rachel Moore

Today’s Guest: Sara Montague Miller is a Licensed Professional Counselor in solo private practice on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She specializes in working with members of the LGBTQ+ community and clients struggling with spiritual or existential concerns. She provides clinical supervision for those seeking counseling licensure in Mississippi as well as business consultation for therapists starting solo practices. She also owns Uninvented Colors Photography, capturing lifestyle portraits locally and decorating walls all over the world with bold and colorful art prints. 
SHOW TOPICS
The many similarities between therapy and photography
Logotherapy and asking the big existential questions
The creativity and cognitive flexibility needed to challenge dominant worldviews around topics such as gender and religion
SHOW LINKS
Sara Montague Miller
https://www.saramillerlpc.com/
https://www.uninventedcolorsphotography.com/
Instagram: @saramillerlpc and @uninventedcolors
Uninvented Colors by Shel Silverstein
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Today’s Guest: Annabelle Coote, MA, LMHC, BC-DMT,  is a licensed mental health therapist, certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, and board-certified dance/movement therapist based in Massachusetts. She has more than 25 years’ experience using somatic, creative, and experiential approaches. At Mind Body Matters, Annabelle offers consultation and training for therapists who want to develop their clinical work using mind, body, and creativity. In her private practice, Movement Matters Integrative Psychotherapy, she specializes in anxiety, trauma, women’s issues, life transitions, and cultivating creativity. Annabelle has authored book chapters on depression and trauma using embodied and creative approaches in therapy and telehealth and has presented at numerous conferences. Annabelle is known for her deep compassion, humor, quirky metaphors, spontaneous creativity, ability to simplify complex concepts, and the conviction that profound transformation happens in tiny steps.
SHOW TOPICS
Aspiring for groundedness amidst the messiness of life and therapy
How imposter syndrome and the pressure to know everything can derail our work and creativity
Taking risks in the therapy room to help clients become unstuck and turn off their “autopilot” responses
Practicing the entire spectrum of nonviolence as a therapist and eliminating negative or adversarial vocabulary from the therapeutic lexicon
SHOW LINKS
Annabelle Coote
https://annabellecoote.com 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annabellecoote/
Private practice: https://movementmatterstherapy.com 
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oasisforsomatictherapy 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annabellecoote/  
Instagram: annabelle_coote 
Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy — and What You Can Do About It by Resmaa Menakem
https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Love-Partner-Sometimes-Crazy_and/dp/1949481794/
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Today’s Guest: Katie Curran, MA, LMHCA, is a licensed mental health counseling associate located in Spokane, WA. She specializes in working with young adults, artists, grief, witchy folks, and identity/purpose struggles. She utilizes art, ritual, normalization, and alternative approaches to meet individuals where they’re at, recognizing that counseling is definitely not “one size fits all.”
SHOW TOPICS
Identifying the “language” we speak and using that language through therapy to be our most authentic selves
Fostering empathy for and humanizing people who are incarcerated and those facing addiction
The effect of grief on blocking the creative process, and how our art and soul co-conspire to help us face things directly
Seeing art-making as a somatic methodology for moving trauma through the body
SHOW LINKS
Katie Curran
www.cacounselingservices.com
Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power by Carolyn Elliott PhD
https://www.amazon.com/Existential-Kink-Unmask-Embrace-getting/dp/1578636477
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748
 
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Today’s Guest: Sandy Cohen, NBC-HWC, is a national board-certified health & wellness coach and a writer and podcaster who studies the science of well-being. Her work with The Associated Press has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and hundreds of other newspapers and websites around the world. She is now working toward a Master's degree in Public Health at the University of Alabama. Sandy earned a certificate in health & wellness coaching from the University of Wisconsin and became a national board-certified coach in December 2020. She launched her own podcast, "Inner Peace to Go," in January 2022.



SHOW TOPICS
Questioning realness and authenticity when working in the world of celebrity journalism
Transitioning from reporting on Hollywood to focusing on health and wellness after facing mental and physical health challenges
The power of journalism to make people feel seen and put complicated topics into accessible formats and terminology
Simple steps we can take to improve our health and wellness



SHOW LINKS
Sandy Cohen
https://sandycohen.net
http://innerpeacetogo.com/
https://www.instagram.com/youknowsandy/
 
 
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Today’s Guest: Julia Vering, LSCSW, LCSW, REAT, is a performance artist and musician, licensed clinical social worker, and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist based in Kansas City. She has integrated the arts into social work for 20 years, centering her practice in joy, humor, imagination, and the strengths perspective. She has received grants from The Charlotte Street Foundation and Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts for her community-based performance work involving collaborations with older adults and people with neurocognitive disorders. She also tours and releases albums as “Unicorns in the Snow,” a performance art project that integrates interactive projections, stop-motion animation, and original music. 
Vering has worked in hospice and long-term care settings for the past 17 years. She opened her private practice, Expressive Arts Therapy KC, in 2022. She became the first Registered Expressive Arts Therapist in the state of Kansas in 2023 and serves as the Kansas State coordinator for the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. Vering integrates expressive arts, psychodrama and EMDR into her practice, and is currently creating a workbook and film on performance art interventions for people with neurocognitive disorders. 
SHOW TOPICS
Finding liberation and community through "weird" and "quirky" art forms
The symbiotic relationship between art and therapy
Facilitating healing and rehumanizing activities for patients and families in long-term care facilities through silliness and fun
SHOW LINKS
Julie Vering
https://expressiveartstherapykc.com/
https://unicornsinthesnow.com/
https://youtube.com/@juliavering2981?si=YqJxp3BfrLZPbzh-
Under the Cover of Kindness: The Invention of Social Work
https://www.amazon.com/Under-Cover-Kindness-Invention-Disciplinarity/dp/0813917131
Expressive Therapies Summit — November 16-19 including a workshop with Julie on Nov. 17: "Multimodal Video Improv for Expression, Inclusion & Joy with Older Adults and Others" 
https://www.expressivetherapiessummit.com/virtual-summits
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Today’s Guest: Elizabeth Davis, MFA, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT, is a board-certified, state-licensed art therapist and an EMDR consultant and trainer through EMDRIA. She has more than 25 years of experience working in the field of trauma. Her approach integrates art therapy, EMDR therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and play therapy. She has conducted dozens of workshops, including for the EMDR International Association and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She is an author and editor of Creative Arts Therapies and EMDR (2022). She currently serves as a director at the Trauma Institute and Child Trauma Institute.
SHOW TOPICS
What are parts of a person and how do they manifest?
The necessary parts of themselves that artists form in order to better create and commune with their art form
How to foster harmony between parts through love, compassion, and respect
Switching between the therapist and artist parts of ourselves
SHOW LINKS
Elizabeth Davis
www.elizabethdavis-emdr.com
elizabethdavisemdr@gmail.com
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