I am passionate about making the creative arts accessible. I am happy to work with organizations and companies wishing to enrich existing programming, enhance team-building, and develop new art therapy programs.
My experience as a consultant, workshop facilitator, trainer, and public speaker includes:
- Train-the trainer expressive arts curriculum development, facillitaton, and consulting for nursing home staff
- Improv as Communication Workshops for persons recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia and their care partners
- Zine-making for Parkinson's disease awareness
- Art-based self-care for caregivers
- Non-pharmacological interventions to decrease antipsychotic usage in nursing homes
- Multi-modal empathy training
- Multi-modal team building
- Presentations as national and local conferences including Aging in America, Life Services Network, the American Arts Therapy Association National Conference, and the Illinois Art Therapy Association Conference