Posted June 27th, 2019 by Southwestern College & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, People of SWC, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Top News, SWC Blog.
by Dru Phoenix, MA, LMHC
The upcoming Wild Heart Gallery art show at Southwestern College is titled “Anger and the Feminine Self.” The idea was to invite the feminine into a visual and written dialogue on anger and to give permission for anger to be present since many of us have been raised to avoid…
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Posted June 25th, 2019 by Southwestern College & filed under SWC Blog.
By Deb Schroder
I’ve come to really value small moments of joy. My life isn’t lacking happiness but on many days it gets crowded out by stress. One night after work as I dragged myself through the grocery store I found myself staring at the usual row of healthy cereals that do seem to be…
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Posted June 21st, 2019 by Southwestern College & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories.
By Courtney Shackelford
The brain is special and magnificent, strange and mysterious. It is powerful enough to send messages to assist in regulating our bodies, but is also a vulnerable 3 pound organ encased in bone and liquid to keep it safe from the various hazards of the world. A millennium later, humans still do…
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Posted June 21st, 2019 by Southwestern College & filed under Reflections from the President, Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, Consciousness & Mindfulness, Counseling at SWC, Top News.
By Awbrey Michelle Willett
Ann Filmyer, Ph. D is an educator, poet, teacher, and mentor. A traditional healer she trained with the late Keewaydinoquay Paschal in the Midewiwin tradition of the northern Great Lakes and is an Ojibwe herbal medicine woman. Dr. Filemyr has a rich history as a teacher and was Professor of…
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Posted June 17th, 2019 by Southwestern College & filed under Counseling at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, Top News.
By Awbrey Michelle Willett
For Jason Holley, MA, LPCC self-care is the beginning of all good therapy. Jason is a psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Fe, prior to this he worked for the Life Healing Center of Santa Fe, where he helped to found its internationally-recognized sexual addiction treatment program. Jason has a…
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Posted June 14th, 2019 by Southwestern College & filed under Counseling at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, Top News.
By Awbrey Michelle Willett
Katherine Ninos, MA, LPCC, is Executive Vice President of Southwestern College and Director of the New Earth Institute. She received her BA in Psychology from Alfred University, New York, and her MA in Transformational Counseling and Education from Quimby College in its first graduating class. (Quimby College later became Southwestern College.)…
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Posted June 12th, 2019 by Southwestern College & filed under Counseling at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, Consciousness & Mindfulness, Top News.
By Awbrey Michelle Willett
I set out using each of my classes here at Southwestern to grow as a person, and to study self-care, and the various occupational hazards of caring, in order to understand how counselors and those of service, including myself, can sustain our work and live optimally well, balanced, and joyful lives.…
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