Creative Writing Expressive Therapies Counseling Services
Creative Writing Expressive Therapies Counseling Services
Most mental health clients are sufficiently gifted with the ability to write, and can be helped to express themselves by asking them to write poetry or do creative writing.All mental health clients can learn to express themselves by journaling, which only requires that the client knows how to write simply. Journaling is often done by simply sitting down with a 15 minute timer and writing whatever comes to mind, even if it is just "I don't know what to write. I ..."
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National Association for Poetry Therapy - Information on poetry, conferences, membership, training and development, committees, publications, NAPT foundation, government affairs, regional events, books, and links.
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Creative Growth and Healing - Contains articles, annotated links, and book reviews about journal and memoir writing as well as information about how and why creativity heals. Email list.
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Women In Therapy - California - Founder Phyllis Klein, LCSW. Information on services, location, about the founder, about women and writing, writing as therapy, about eating disorders, and related links.
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The Center for Journal Therapy - Includes bookstore, library, training, workshops, consultation, an article on the power of writing, the poem of the month, links, resources, and information on the founder, Kathleen Adams.
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JournalMagic.com - Sue Meyn, M.C., Professional Journal Coach.
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The Center for Creativity - Maryland - Expressive arts in self-development, creativity, and psychotherapy. Includes information on art therapy, poetry circles, fairy tale circles, and workshops.
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Poetry as Therapy - History of poetry therapy and explanation of the healing components.
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The Creative "Righting" Center - A center that provides seminars, training, peer groups, and individual therapy in poetry. Links to the facilitator, Sherry Reiter, at Hofstra University.
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Writing to Heal, Writing to Grow - Writing courses to examine and understand life's events. Including: Your Life in Essays, Writing About Cancer, Writing for Personal Caregivers, and Writing for Families. Developed by Margie Davis.
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Poetry Therapy - The act of writing and reading poetry creates a sacred space in which people can grieve, heal, rejoice, play, rest, plan, reconsider. Explores the frontiers of Poetry Therapy.
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Create Write Now - Provides free lessons in starting a journal for self-expression, and includes articles, testimonials, and details of a CD to purchase.
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Pongo Publishing - Seattle - Writing therapy and poetry publishing with teens in jail, street youth, adolescent psychiatric patients, and other teens leading difficult lives. Includes grief therapy. A volunteer, non-profit program. Information on collections of writing, writing meth
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