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The Creative Psychotherapist

The Creative Psychotherapist

By Reina Lombardi

The Creative Psychotherapist is the official podcast of The Creative Clinician’s Corner, a practice building resource for Creative Psychotherapists. TCP podcast is the cast for creative, expressive, and experiential focused psychotherapists curious to learn how to design, build, and scale a thriving private practice. Your host interviews successful therapists about the tools and strategies they have used to develop creative focused practices. They also discuss products, services, and side hustles they've created to enhance their practices, communities and diversify their income streams.
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S2.14 Zachary Van Den Berg | On Being a Social Change Agent at any Stage of Your Career

The Creative PsychotherapistMay 24, 2023

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S2.14 Zachary Van Den Berg | On Being a Social Change Agent at any Stage of Your Career

S2.14 Zachary Van Den Berg | On Being a Social Change Agent at any Stage of Your Career

FEATURED GUESTS: Zachary D. Van Den Berg, MA, LPC-A, ATR-P (he/they) is a recent graduate of Adler University, in Chicago, IL with a Master of Arts in Counseling: Art Therapy, and received his BFA at the School of the Art Institute (SAIC). He is Past-President of the Adler Art Therapy Student Association, founder of the international online forums Art Therapy Students Associated and Coalition for Queer Creative Arts Therapies, past Chairperson of the American Art Therapy Association’s Multicultural Committee, member on the Membership Committee, Creative Director of Expressive Media’s Film Library and founder of the annual Expressing Pride Symposium. He is currently working at Community Arts, LLCand is supervised under Wanda Montemayor, LPC-S ATCS ATR-BC RPT-S (she/her) in Austin, TX. Clinically, he utilizes queer, social justice, anti-oppressive approaches to art therapy, working primarily with adults in kink, queer and trans communities in Central Texas.

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LISTEN & LEARN: 

How and why Zack began contributing to the professional while still in graduate training.  The value of coming together as a collective in order to create visibility.  The inspiration and path for Zack to create the Coalition for Queer Creative Arts Therapies and the Expressing Pride Symposia events.  How he is working on decentralizing the Coalition and the Pride event to other members within the community.  The importance of creating opportunities for other ways of knowing to be accessible in the research, literature and media within the professional fields.  Benefits of using our position of privilege to disseminate information that is of value to the community.  The ORCA stance, which stands for Openness, Respect, Curiosity & Accountability, as a framework for dancing with others through humility.  How visibility becomes a model for others to take healthy risks professionally.  How the theme of Emergence is currently central in the shared pursuit of liberation within the Coalition for Queer Creative Arts Therapies and the Expressing Pride Symposium.  "Trans-affirming care is trauma informed care and is life supporting care," Zachary Van Den Berg. The importance of being attuned to the limits of our own capacity. There are multiple ways of protest and advocacy. 

RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW: Check out Zack's site: https://zacharyvandenberg.com/
Art Therapy Students Associated Facebook Group 
Coalition for Queer Arts Therapies Facebook Group head there to learn more about the
Expressing Pride 2023: A Celebration of Emergence Saturday June 17, 2023 (3rd Annual Symposium) 
coalitionforqueercats@gmail.com
Zachary.vandenberg@gmail.com

May 24, 202351:07
VFTS 2023 6 | Dr. Renee Turner | Disenfranchised Grief & Gestalt Therapy

VFTS 2023 6 | Dr. Renee Turner | Disenfranchised Grief & Gestalt Therapy

May 17, 202301:05:37
Encore Episode 13 22 | Colin Carr | Five Things You Need to Know BEFORE You Lease or Buy An Office Space
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S2.13 Becca Rich | Reclaim Your Time, Work Less & Live Aligned
May 03, 202354:54
VFTS 2023 5 | Kate Merkle | Psychodramatic Methods In the Treatment of Eating Disorders

VFTS 2023 5 | Kate Merkle | Psychodramatic Methods In the Treatment of Eating Disorders

FEATURED GUESTS: Kate Merkle, LCSW, MPH, RDN, PAT, CDWF is a clinical social worker, registered dietitian, and certified psychodramatist. She's also a certified Daring Way™ facilitator, an experiential methodology based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. Kate has over 18 years of experience helping people struggling with disordered eating and body image issues heal their relationship with food. She is the founder and director of Nourishment Works PC, a group therapy and nutrition practice specializing in the treatment of eating disorders. She is a co-director of the Chicago Center for Psychodrama, a training center offering trainings and workshops to hospitals, schools, and mental health practices throughout the Chicagoland area. Kate has been incorporating psychodrama into her group and individual work for the last 10 years.
LISTEN & LEARN: 

The benefits of being both a registered dietician and therapist as an eating disorder provider.  How action methods can help breakthrough ambivalence in treatment.  How action methods can empower the client to tap into their inner wisdom.  The myth of perfect eating.  The benefits of exploring nutrition, hydration and sleep as it pertains to mental health.  Reframing questions for food as fuel. What have you fueled your body with today? How consistently have you fueled your body today?  How the Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating Paradigms provide a compassionate approach to eating.  When to refer a client to a dietician.  People don't fail diets. Diets fail people.  Connecting with body wisdom through action methods. 

RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:

Kate's practice 
www.nourishmentworks.com https://www.facebook.com/NourishmentWorksPC/ Email Kate at kate@nourishmentworks.com for your FREE GUIDE to Nourished Eating Email Kate at kate@nourishmentworks.com for a CHANCE to attend an Intro to Psychodrama Workshop with the www.chicagopsychodrama.com   https://www.instagram.com/ @chicagocenterpsychodrama Body candles (Small Goddess Sculptures that were on Kate's Shelf)

SESSIONS AT THE EXPRESSIVE THERAPIES SUMMIT:

Integrating Brené Brown’s Daring Way with Expressive Arts for Courageous Healing and Transformation via Virtual Summit Sunday May 21st – 6 HR Zoom; To Promote the Midwest Summit in Chicago Action Techniques for Transforming the Treatment of Eating Disorders: Embodied Healing on June 25th 10AM - 1PM along with Brittany Lakin-Starr The Importance of Nutrition in Trauma Recovery for All Counselors  and Therapists  on June 25 2:30-5:30PM 

Apr 26, 202301:05:53
S2.12 Amanda Shaw | Starting Over: Preparations for Moving Your Practice to a New City