Creativity Expert & Psychotherapist
Major life events can paralyze your creativity. If you uncover what’s going on behind the “big picture,” though, you can bring yourself back into being in the moment and loving your life. Art can create space from your feelings, allowing you to make fully-formed decisions. Using art to bring people together and strengthen connections can make it a celebration of life—even when life brings grief or loss.
My private psychotherapy practice of 33 years offers families, couples, and individuals a chance for deep personal growth through integrated work in Gestalt Therapy, family dynamics, communication skills, as well as diversity and cross cultural issues.
Besides my psychotherapy practice, I co-direct the Center for Creative Consciousness, a non-profit organization working with groups, and individuals, who are interested in using creativity and the arts (art Therapy) as a way to communicate and develop long lasting, sustainable change.
I also co-direct the New England Art Therapy Institute, a subdivision of the Center for Creative consciousness, whre I design and deliver training in how to use art and art therapies for personal empowerment.
In my photography, portrait and landscape art, I bring together all of my experiences as a psychotherapist, organizational consultant, and biologist to express the fullness of my love, and an honoring relationship, with the subjects I paint.
Originally a native of Bogota Colombia, I’ve lived for the past thirty years in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts.