California-Connecticut
Listings are in alphabetical order first by state, then by city.
California
Patricia Waters, MA, REAT, ATR-BC
8844 Cypress Avenue
Cotati, California
707.795.0638
waters@sonic.net
www.creativeartstudio.com
Patricia Waters is an expreessive arts therapist, group facilitator and artist who values expressive arts and the person-centered approach as a way of life. She works with seniors through the Santa Rosa Junior College senior program and privately with individuals and groups exploring creativity through the arts. Her passions are exploring life as a mythic journey, healing, and aging with creativity and grace. Her DVD, Transformation through Art: A Personal Mythic Journey, illustrates her inner life story through over 50 years of artwork.
Patricia was a member of the core staff of the Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute (PCETI) for 12 years.
Judith Balian, MEd
Encinitas, CA 92024
760.436.8848
jbalian@excoveries.com
www.excoveries.com
Judy Balian holds a masters in counseling and psychology from Hofstra
University. She completed a two-year post-graduate program in
Expressive Arts at Saybrook Graduate School where she studied under
Dr. Natalie Rogers. Judy has also studied creativity coaching under Dr. Eric Maisel. Through her company, Excoveries, Judy offers creativity classes and
coaching as well as marketing services to small businesses and individual practitioners.
Nichole Warwick, M.A., C.E.A.T.
P.O. Box 1460
Forestville, CA 95436
707.887.2170
fairiewoman@aol.com
Website under construction, available soon
Come to a safe space where you can freely express yourself through the Creative Connection®. Explore the wisdom of the body using authentic movement, sounding, drumming, and various modalities of visual art. Learn to listen to what your body needs; validate feelings and experiences, and release disease and trauma. This work is process oriented using person-centered psychotherapeutic techniques. No art or therapy experience necessary, only a willingness to be present and true to your higher self. Nichole will support your healing process with unconditional positive regard and compassion. Group and private sessions available in Sonoma County, California, USA or by telephone consultation.
Nichole Warwick is a mother of two sons. She intimately understands the role that creativity plays in physical and psychological healing and how it affects spirituality. For the past seven years she has lived with chronic pain and fibromyalgia. With a spiritual base in both Christianity and Buddhism, Nichole incorporates the practice of loving kindness (or metta) for the self as a foundation for her therapeutic work. Bilingual in English and Spanish. Previous work experiences include Education and Behavior Intervention Specialist for Social Advocates for Youth in contract with Sonoma County Mental Health and Sonoma County Office of Education.
Nichole holds a Master of Arts in Psychology with concentrations in Integrative Health Psychology and Consciousness and Spirituality from Saybrook Graduate School. She is a certified Expressive Arts Therapist trained by Natalie Rogers and Shellee Davis also at Saybrook. Nichole is a certified Instructor of Infant Massage and Communication.
Rahima Warren, MA, MFT (ret.)
Lafayette, CA
After 20 years in private practice as a psychotherapist specializing in dreamwork, sandplay and expressive arts, Rahima has shifted focus to her passions: expressive painting, creative writing and the inner work
of spiritual unfoldment. She is now sharing the fruits of these passions on her website in a virtual ‘art show.’ Art for Awakening is a combination of expressive art, dreamwork, poetry and creative writing, and demonstrates the power and depth of Person-Centered Expressive Arts.
Rahima was certified in person-centered expressive arts by PCETI in 1997. Her experience with the PCETI training deepened her trust in free creative expression. This gave her the courage to write a deep, dark, rich spiritual fantasy trilogy that explores the themes of suffering and healing, evil and redemption, betrayal and forgiveness. Her next project is to get her novels published.
Christine L. Evans, Ph.D., REAT
2680 Bayshore Parkway, Suite 101
Mountain View, CA 94043
650.314.0193
Living-Arts-Center.com
Christine is a licensed clinical psychologist in California and an expressive arts therapist. She is passionate about the power of the creative process to support adolescents, adults, and couples in their healing, growth, and movement into living full, empowered, and integrated lives. She also teaches at Saybrook Graduate School and facilitates groups for various community non-profit organizations. Her transpersonal orientation aims to include and honor spiritual experience and exploration as an essential dimension of a full and meaningful life. She practices authentic movement, meditation, and art-making as her own psycho-spiritual practices. Hiking, gardening, and relationships with close friends bring added joy and meaning to her life.
Maria Gonzalez-Blue, MA, REAT, REACE
Sebastopol, CA
hummingbird@monitor.net
Maria Gonzalez-Blue, MA, is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist
and Registered Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator. She has been in private practice for 30 years facilitating personal and spiritual growth workshops with diverse populations. The focus of her private practice
is on spiritual exploration through multi-modal arts, dream work, ritual and an integrative exploration of the Hero’s Journey motif. Her long-time personal work with Huichol Shamans from Mexico has influenced her belief that art is medicine and a valuable adjunct to the spiritual journey.
Maria currently teaches Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy at California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, and teaches creative processes through Adult Education at Santa Rosa Junior College, CA. Maria served on the faculty of the Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute for 14 years. She has facilitated person-centered expressive arts training programs and spiritual enhancement workshops in Guatemala, Mexico and Argentina, where she co-founded PCETI, Argentina in Buenos Aires.
Anin Utigaard, MA, MFT, REAT
870 Market St, Ste. 569
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-974-9303
Anin is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and one of the four founding co-chairs for the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA). She was a faculty member with the Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute for over ten years and has used the arts as a healing agent for over 20 years including work with teens in a treatment center, in public schools, with corporations and with communities following natural disasters. She is currently the Clinical Director for Pacific Institute, a training program that combines the humanistic-existential approach with the creative process in working with elders and those individuals dealing with acute mental health issues. In her private practice in San Francisco, she combines the arts with the therapeutic process to provide individuals, families and groups of all ages another language to access insights and to embody healing experiences as they face personal challenges and transitions.
Anin has brought the person-centered expressive arts approach to Brazil, Canada, Japan and to multiple conferences and workshops throughout the country. She was a contributing author for a book recently published in Japan regarding the Creative Arts Therapies and has a DVD demonstrating Child-Centered Therapy. A musician, singer, artist and writer, Anin believes that creative energy is a transformative power we all possess and is dedicated to facilitating others’ connection to their own creative resources, which she believes ultimately promotes community and global healing.
Sue Ann Herron, M.A.
Sonoma, California
707.935.8633
sueannherron@comcast.net
Sue Ann Herron completed her bachelors degree in psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her masters degree in psychology from Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco. She is in candidacy for her Ph.D. in clinical psychology. After completing a certificate program in Expressive Arts with Natalie Rogers, Ph.D., the founder of Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy (PCEAT), she co-facilitated with Dr. Rogers at the Institute of Imaginal Studies. Prior to her career in expressive arts, Sue Ann spent over 20 years managing large groups for Fortune 500 companies and promoting employee growth and development.
Sue Ann designs and facilitates expressive arts programs that foster creativity, self-expression, personal growth and healing for individuals and groups of adults and children.