The Creative Process & Trauma. Lisa Mitchell LMFT, ATR, LPC: from the archives
The Trauma Therapist
Guy Crawford Macpherson
4.5 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
"When we stay closely and non-judgmentally with someone exploring pain we find beauty in the midst of the ruins."
-Saki Santorelli, Heal Thyself
Lisa Mitchell LMFT, ATR, LPC is the author of Creativity as Co-Therapist: The Practitioner’s Guide to the Art of Psychotherapy (Routledge 2016). An art therapist, she has specialized in helping teens and adults use art and creative expression to overcome anxiety, depression, and trauma for 20+ years.
Lisa’s online and in-person workshops are popular for the in-depth, hands-on creative experiences she facilitates to help therapists find unique ways of approaching the therapeutic process as a creative one. Lisa is also the organizer and host of Create Fest, an annual online creativity festival that provides inspiration and education for therapists to "Get out the box and into their right mind."
Lisa partners with her own creativity through writing, knitting, and painting. Her blog features reflections on all creative endeavors (including therapy) at www.innercanvas.com.
In This Episode
Lisa’s Go-To Books
- Creativity as Co-Therapist: The Practitioner’s Guide to the Art of Psychotherapy
- Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine, Saki Santorelli
- Irv Yalom
- Studio Art Therapy: Cultivating the Artist Identity in the Art Therapist, Catherine Moon
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| 1:24.9 | Today we have another episode from the archives with one of my incredible guests. |
| 1:29.8 | Enjoy. |
| 1:40.8 | Our welcome back to the trauma therapist podcast. |
| 1:43.3 | My name is Guy McPherson. My mission is to help |
| 1:46.2 | trauma therapist be their incredible selves, to be human, to be real, not just a clinician. |
| 1:52.8 | I'm a big believer in who we are is more important than what we know. And this requires |
| 1:57.1 | cultivating authenticity, genuineness, and vulnerability, and that requires intention. |
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| 2:08.1 | That's the Traumathotherapist project.com. Let's get started. |
| 2:13.2 | All right, guys, welcome back to the trauma therapist podcast. My name is Guy McPherson and very excited today to introduce my guest, Lisa Mitchell. Lisa, welcome. You ready to do this? |
| 2:24.5 | I am. Thank you so much for having me, Guy. All right. So Lisa is the author of Creativity as Co-Therapist, the Practitioner's Guide to the Art of Psychotherapy. |
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