ABSTRACT
I began my studies in art therapy in 2010. Before entering into the Art Therapy master’s program at The George Washington University in Washington DC, I had previously studied art and psychology at a liberal arts school, earning a BA in the Arts, and studied massage therapy at a natural health school in Auckland, NZ. Working with the body and the psyche would eventually come together and shape how I worked with clients as a therapist. Living internationally would also shape my perspectives personally and as a clinician. Later, as an art therapist, I worked with youth in South Africa and with individuals and families in hospital, hospice, bereavement, community, and private practice settings. After graduating with a master’s in art therapy with counseling I had no idea I would find myself in the world of grief and loss and death and dying. However, a job opening became available specifically for an art therapist within a hospice and bereavement center. Following my work as an employee within hospice and bereavement care I decided to open my own practice. In 2015 I began offering the Mind-Body Art Grief Group, which I developed and facilitated as a contractor within a bereavement center in the city of Richmond, VA, USA.
