ARt therapy & Brainspotting
“The child in each of us knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was or home as it should have been.”
brainspotting
Brainspotting is a somatic therapy that accelerates the process of healing traumas and developmental wounds. This may be a good fit for you if talk therapy is feeling stuck 0r if you are simply ready to dive into the heart of what is causing you pain.
art therapy
Art making in the presence of a loving, connected other allows us expansiveness, space for inquiry, and a place between the concrete and the ephemeral to express our most tender selves and to reach our untapped resources.
Beth Purcell
LPC, LMHC, ATR-Bc
approach
I work with youth 9+, adults, families, artists and fellow therapists.
I am a multimodal artist, mother and learner. I have worked with youth and adults in hospital, residential, community based and outpatient settings since 2009.
Art therapy and brainspotting offer the means to process more deeply than words alone. Both tap into implicit experiences held in our postures, expressions, reactions and beliefs. Both reach beneath our cognitive awareness to the parts of us deserving reprieve.
My work is influenced by Polyvagal Theory, IFS, Feminist, Emotionally Focused, Psychodynamic, Relational and Experiential practices. My approach is warm, direct and cushioned with levity.
I am a board certified Art therapist (ATR-BC) licensed in both Oregon (LPC) and Washington (LMHC). I have completed Levels I & II of BSP and am in the process of certification.
2015-Master of Arts in Art Therapy, NYU
2008-BA Art Practices PSU
Mental illness is inextricable from the social and political landscape. I frame interpersonal truths within the context of white supremacy, racism, classism, Fatphobia, ableism and systemic harm toward gender diverse and queer people. Disrupting these systems personally and professionally is my imperfect practice.
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