My Bachelor's degree is in Art Education. My focus in this field was my interest in children's innate capacity to express their inner creative drives as well as their emotional states through a right brain-based activity. I have worked with children in various capacities and in a variety of settings for the last twenty years.
My Master's degree is in Marriage and Family Therapy. Both degrees have served to create an awareness of how life's experiences, intra-personally as well as inter-personally, can “fix” our attitudes and perspectives towards our memories of the past, our experience of the present, and our hopes for the future. I am interested in examining how and why we perceive “reality” the way we do. By stimulating our creative energy, we can unleash subconscious and unconscious material that otherwise may lay dormant for years.
Another focal point of interest is writing. I have been writing poetry for thirty years, and I firmly believe in the practice of writing as a form of creative expression, release, as well as therapy. My Professional Paper in Graduate school focused on the therapeutic benefits of writing for a person who has undergone a Traumatic Brain Injury, which leads me to my other major interest, which is the brain.
Other interests include: Drawing Nutrition Prayer Exercise
