EMDR, Art Therapy, Creativity, and Healing with Jocelyn Fitzgerald
Sep 06, 2022Today we have Jocelyn Fitzgerald sharing her story about how she discovered art therapy and how she’s now using it to help her clients. She explains how creativity and various artistic endeavors create connections and often reveals what is going on in people’s minds and hearts. Jocelyn also shares why she views art therapy as almost speaking a different language, and that for some people who may be apprehensive about talk therapy, asking them to draw an image of what their fear is or what it might feel like inside their body is easier.
She details how you might implement this modality in your wellness center or why you might consider it if you haven’t before. Jocelyn and I also chat about some of the various creative arts that can be used in therapy. It’s not just relegated to drawing or painting, but creative arts like dance and music can also be exceptionally effective.
Jocelyn shares her experience surrounding taking her creativity out of her therapist’s office and starting a shop on Etsy and becoming an author! This is a truly inspiring conversation and I encourage you to give it a listen!
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About Jocelyn Fitzgerald
As a board-certified art therapist and an EMDR consultant with a busy practice, Jocelyn loves directing her clients to tap into their own creativity and healing to connect with what they're feeling on the inside and bring it to life on the outside.
Jocelyn enjoys mixing both art therapy and EMDR to help her clients work through past trauma. She’s taught fine arts classes, run women’s workshops on collage-making, organized healing-centered group art projects, and led guided visualizations on how to activate creativity with schools and nonprofits. One of her most transformative experiences to date centered around helping traumatized adolescents in an African refugee camp recover using art therapy.
Over the pandemic, she illustrated and helped author a children’s book using mindfulness and art to help kids find calm, Colorful Place: Mindful Story and Art. This summer Routledge will be publishing a book she co-edited and wrote a chapter for will be coming out on the use of her two loves of EMDR and art therapy. She also enjoys creating art that helps teach mental health ideas within her Etsy shop, Colorful Therapy Tools.
When she’s not working, you can find Jocelyn hiking in the beautiful Pacific Northwest mountains with her puppy Ace, creating art, riding her bike, traveling or enjoying dance parties with her little family.
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About Kendall Hagensen
Kendall is a Somatic Mental Health Therapist, Multidisciplinary Clinic Owner and Business Coach. She specializes in, and is passionate about, working with healthcare professionals to create the businesses of their dreams. Big goals always have a psychological component beneath the surface, so Kendall uses her background in Somatic Psychotherapy and EMDR Therapy mixed with Business Coaching tools to help clients develop a healthy relationship with their business and their strength as a leader. As someone who lives with a chronic illness herself, Kendall feels that health happens best within community, which is why she takes a holistic, integrative, and collaborative wellness approach to her personal and professional life.
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