68: Creativity & the Therapeutic Process: An Interview with Lisa Mitchell

Therapy Chat

Laura Reagan, LCSW-C

Social Sciences, Science, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 68 of the Therapy Chat Podcast with host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C. This is the third episode in the integrative mental health series featuring Lisa Mitchell. She became a therapist 20 years ago — and for the first 10 years of her private practice, taught thousands of therapists how to integrate art into their work safely and effectively. As she walked along her teaching path, she made a surprising discovery. Most of the therapists she met already identified as “creative types” — but most were nervous about incorporating “creativity” into their work, with clients.

In the episode, Lisa talks about the work she does, working in her private practice in Sacramento, California. Her two niche categories of people she works with are teens and professional women, she helps them to work more with art to understand themselves better and to find experiences that help them resolve the issues going on in their lives. She also touches upon of the five stages of the creative process and how the therapist and client can embrace the vulnerable space of being curious, open and collaborative, helping to navigate the creative process together.

Resources

http://www.innercanvas.com

Creativity as Co-Therapist: The Practitioner's Guide to the Art of Psychotherapy (Book)

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0:00.0	Therapy Chat Podcast, episode 68.
0:03.6	This is the Therapy Chat Podcast.
0:07.7	The information shared in this podcast is not a substitute for seeking help from a licensed
0:12.9	mental health professional.
0:15.2	And now, here's Laura Reagan, L-C-S-WC, with today's episode.
0:27.2	Hi, welcome back to therapy chat.
0:31.9	I'm really excited to bring you today's interview with someone I've admired for a while.
0:38.6	Lisa Mitchell is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a registered art therapist in
0:45.2	Sacramento, California.
0:47.1	And she's also the author of an awesome book called Creativity as Co-Therapist about the creative process and how it parallels
0:57.1	the therapeutic process and how we therapists can feel more into the flow of our work
1:05.6	through opening up our creativity. This is just something that feels true to me. And I haven't read the
1:14.6	whole book, but I really do think it's a wonderful, fabulous resource for therapists in opening up
1:20.9	our creativity and connecting to kind of that flow state, which she explains all about in this interview and the
1:30.2	book. So without any more delays, let's get started in my interview with Lisa Mitchell.
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