Southwestern College Santa Fe, NM
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Learning the Power of Language at Southwestern College
Posted August 11th, 2013 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Consciousness & Mindfulness.by Amy Hautman Bates
We talk a lot about language at SWC. What are you saying? What do you really mean? This careful attention to words is part of the school’s mission of “Transforming Consciousness Through Education.” And in a way, transforming education through consciousness.
A huge step in gaining self-awareness is hearing what is…
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Loyal Mama Molly Doerner, Entering Her 2nd Year at Southwestern College
Posted August 6th, 2013 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories.By Molly Doerner
"Bwoof... my name is Graham. Molly was my Mama for almost exactly 15 years and 4 months. We had so much fun together - walking, hiking, watching movies (Charlotte's Web was one of my favorites!!), going for rides & getting treats at drive-through windows all across the country. I'm pretty sure we…
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Group Behavior Learned in Original Family System
Posted July 28th, 2013 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories.In our Group Dynamics class we looked at who we were in our original group– our family of origin. It helps to see how we came to operate in groups the way we do.
My brother is a physicist, a painter and an optical illusionist. Although we were born with the same parents, in the…
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Ishwari Sollohub
Posted July 10th, 2013 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.Ishwari Sollohub, LPCC, graduated from Southwestern College in 2007, with a Master's in Counseling with a Concentration in Grief, Loss and Trauma. She has been in private practice since then in Santa Fe.
Ishwari works with adults and couples facing a wide range of issues, as well as offering grief-specific work. Utilizing a variety of…
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Wholeness Through Mandalas: Putting the Pieces Together For Greater Unity
Posted June 20th, 2013 by & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories.by Amy Hautman Bates
The Mandala is a symbol of wholeness. And within that oneness, there is a wonderful kaleidoscope of experiences and expressions. Every moment is new as everything sparkles and changes, and as each facet moves everything around it shifts in response. It is a beautiful dance of creative energy all within a…
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Where Do Southwestern Grads Work? Alicia Hoffman
Posted May 21st, 2013 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.I have been in a private practice setting with Urban Balance in Chicago since 2011, painting and blogging about my work.
Alicia Hoffman, LPC
Psychotherapist
Urban Balance, LLC
www.urbanbalance.com
Here is an excerpt from Alicia's blog:
I created this piece in 2004 as part of heuristic research project in my second year of grad school…
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Giving Life to Unconscious Images through Collage and Poetry by Megan Sturges
Posted May 19th, 2013 by & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More.by Megan Sturges, © 2012
My practice in the studio is about giving life to the unconscious image in specific form through my hands and eyes – bringing it into this world of color and form through the embodied sense of yes or no, here or there, connecting, separating, line, shape, object, pattern. Like dreams,…
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The Potency of Groups – Archetypal Psychology
Posted May 5th, 2013 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Consciousness & Mindfulness, SWC Blog.Amy Hautman Bates
I like Robert Waterman's concept of “The Studio" – the sense that we are all one and share in one another's growth. I feel the transformation of my cohorts and feel as though I am in a way, falling in love with them! Not just in Archetypal Psychology class, which happens to…
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Marika Richard’s Seasonal Affective Disorder Treatment & Light Center, LLC
Posted May 4th, 2013 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Where do SWC Grads Work.I am a 2005 alumni from the Art Therapy program. Since graduating from
SWC, I have been on many adventures as a therapist working in
home-based and outpatient settings as a youth & family therapist, and
with military populations as a traveling therapist in and outside of
the US.
I work part-time as a college…
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Jean Janu: “I love my work and this is truly what I am meant to do.”
Posted May 4th, 2013 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.Jean graduated from SWC in 2012 with a Master's degree in Counseling with concentration in Grief, Loss, and Trauma.
She is currently working as a contract BH counselor at La Clinica del Pueblo in Tierra Amarilla, NM. She says, "I work in the Rio Arriba County Detention Center one half-day a week. I work in…
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Jaffa Frank
Posted May 1st, 2013 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work, SWC Blog.Jaffa V. Frank, Ph.D.
After graduating with my M.A. in Grief, Loss, and Trauma Counseling at Southwestern College in 2008, I did hospice bereavement counseling in Albuquerque, which was cut short by serious personal health issues. Having come through surgery healthier than ever, I decided to pursue my long-time dream and in September of 2011,…
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Why I Chose SWC by Bryce Downey
Posted April 29th, 2013 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories.In April 2013, I was privileged to hear Robert Waterman speak. The significance of this event is Robert Waterman founded Southwestern College, which I began attending as a Counseling student later that fall. Much of what he shared provided confirmation of that decision. I have known since I was 20 years old that becoming a…
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Brian Miller
Posted April 24th, 2013 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.by Brian Miller, M.A., LPCC
Hello dear friends and colleagues,
This has been a busy few years for me since graduating in 2008. I continue to live in Albuquerque, New Mexico with my wife and our two sons, Sebastian (age 4) and Liam (age 2), who encourage us lovingly to learn more and more about…
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Patricia Meek
Posted April 16th, 2013 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.Patricia L. Meek, LPC, MFA, NFT
Noah: A Supernatural Eco Thriller was published by All Things that Matter Press and was released December 1, 2011. I began the novel while living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
My experiences at Southwestern College heavily influenced the creation of this work. Archetypes, Ancient Mysteries, and Vision Quest, were all…
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Ashley M. Simpson’s Art Therapy Internship Now Full-Time in OK
Posted April 14th, 2013 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.In the Spring of 2013, I finished up supervision for my ATR and LPC in Oklahoma. Even cooler, my supervisor is also a SWC grad! I work full-time for the Cavett Kids Foundation, the same foundation where I completed my internship in 2012. With the Cavett Kids Foundation my title is "Art Therapist, Director of…
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Kate Latimer: Freedom Through Bridging the Mind/Body Connection
Posted April 14th, 2013 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, SWC Blog.Kate Latimer, Santa Fe, NM
I took a hiatus from the counseling world after the birth of my daughter in April of 2011, leaving my much loved job as a counselor at Solace Crisis Treatment Center (formerly the Santa Fe Rape Crisis and Trauma Treatment Center). Becoming a mom has been an incredible initiation full…
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Visioning the Life Path by Gabrielle Tatha Viethen
Posted April 10th, 2013 by & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC, Consciousness & Mindfulness, SWC Blog.One of the last classes offered to students at SWC before they launch into internship and graduation is Career and Life Development, well placed as a stepping stone into life after school. I have been teaching one or more sections of this class for the last three years. Always in the first class, many students…
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Where Do Southwestern Grads Work? Rosemary Eads
Posted April 10th, 2013 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.Rosemary Eads, M.A. My private practice is now located in Northborough, Massachusetts. I moved here in April of 2011, and within nine months, began my first ever waiting list! I specialize in working with subconscious beliefs, behaviors and traumas, as well as guiding my clients to develop a fuller awareness of their higher self. I use…
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Where Do Southwestern Grads Work? Sara (Jordan) Skowronski
Posted April 9th, 2013 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.Sara (Jordan) Skowronski, LPC, ATR-BC, CAGS (certificate of advanced graduate studies in Expressive arts).
I graduated in 2004 from the Art Therapy Program. Since that time I have greatly appreciated the ability of “being present” that Southwestern instilled in me as a therapist and as a person in general. Presently, my family and I, which…
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Where Do Southwestern Grads Work? Niccole Toral
Posted April 9th, 2013 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work, Ecotherapy.Niccole Toral has been working with Sangre De Cristo Community Health Partnership, a nonprofit organization providing rural based behavioral health services since 2010. In addition, she and her husband Tod DiCecco have started up their own business called EarthSpirit Awakenings, LLC. Their business offers Vision Fasts as well as other Eco therapies, such as Medicine Walks,…
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Where do Southwestern Grads Work? Trixie Pujol
Posted April 9th, 2013 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.Trixie Pujol is doing early intervention work with children ages 1-4 years old in Los Alamos and Santa Fe, primarily with kids with autism, and runs a monthly support group for parents and caregivers of children with autism. She recently attended the World Autism Congress in Cape Town, South Africa where nearly 1,000 people from…
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Where do Southwestern Grads Work? Arthur Panaro, M.A., LPCC
Posted April 4th, 2013 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.Arthur Panaro, M.A., LPCC, 1994
In the early '90's wondering where to study, I met Robert Waterman, and I am glad I took his counsel: "Just look at where you keep showing up." I did, and it worked out beautifully. Graduation in 1994 launched me into the field at La Nueva Vida, and then at…
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SWC Graduate, Carol Christianson, Santa Fe Counselor and Hynotherapist
Posted April 4th, 2013 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.Carol Christianson
I graduated in 1995 and worked in the mental health field as a counselor in various agencies in NM, eventually becoming an academic advisor for 7 years. In 2007, I decided to take time off from counseling and started a business doing American Clay installations. This is a plastering process that is eco-friendly…
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