The Creative Psychotherapist

FEATURED GUESTS: In this episode of the podcast, Reina interviews Merle Yost, LMFT. Merle is full time writer, speaker and consultant. Retired from private practice psychotherapy after 25 years, he now lectures and consults to help people make sense out of their lives and often the pain they are in, so they can move forward. With over 35 years of personal and professional work, Merle has taken the...

FEATURED GUESTS:   Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor. She owns Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC , a full-fee group practice, where she and a team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling ser...

FEATURED GUESTS:   Nicole Rainey is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Registered Art Therapist. She has over 10 years of experience providing therapy to children, teens, and adults recovering from trauma history, foster care and adoption concerns. Most of her clinical work has specifically focused on survivors of trauma including sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect, violence, and sex traffi...

FEATURED GUESTS: Maureen Clancy is a licensed therapist and trauma expert for over 20 years helping women go through enormous life changes who’ve also experienced childhood trauma. She’s the creator of the Gate Passages Framework, a structured, bottom-up approach to healing trauma and going through major life changes. She’s certified in EMDR and trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (certification...

FEATURED GUESTS:   Dr. Rachel Brandoff is a Registered, Board-Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC) and credentialed supervisor (ATCS). She is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Art Therapy Concentration in the Community and Trauma Counseling program at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Brandoff maintains a clinical practice specializing with individuals who are coming out of crises and copin...

FEATURED GUESTS: Krista Verrastro, MA, RDT/BCT (she/her) is a Registered Drama Therapist and Board Certified Trainer who blends drama therapy, talk therapy, and EMDR therapy. She works with teens and adults in private practice in Reisterstown, Maryland. She specializes in helping people who feel used, abused, neglected, and rejected transform from surviving to thriving. This includes people who ha...

FEATURED GUESTS:   Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor. She owns Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC , a full-fee group practice, where she and a team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling ser...

FEATURED GUESTS:  Carla Titus is a finance expert with over 15 years of combined corporate financial planning, analysis, strategy, and online businesses experience. She provides fractional CFO services and financial consulting to business owners looking to grow their business profitably. Her priorities for her clients as grow profits, have cash in the bank, and pay themselves well so they can buil...

FEATURED GUESTS: Jackie Schuld is an expressive arts therapist and mental health counselor who is also autistic and ADHD. Jackie just published her new book, "Therapy Private Practice: Creating a Private Practice that Enriches Your Life as a Person and Therapist."  Jackie's art therapy private practice specializes in late-identified autism. As a neurodivergent therapist, Jackie has h...

FEATURED GUESTS:  Dr. Rachel Brandoff is a Registered, Board-Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC) and credentialed supervisor (ATCS). She is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Art Therapy Concentration in the Community and Trauma Counseling program at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Brandoff maintains a clinical practice specializing with individuals who are coming out of crises and coping...

FEATURED GUESTS:   Ericha Scott is a n authentic, dedicated, and passionate, licensed and certified creative arts psychotherapist, artist, author, and advocate for disempowered populations. For 39 years, she has worked with those who struggle with substance and behavioral use disorders, victims of trauma, complex trauma, torture, dissociation, and victims of sex trafficking. Her commitment to heal...

FEATURED GUESTS: Julia Vering is a performance artist and musician, licensed clinical social worker and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist based in Kansas City. She has integrated the arts into social work for 20 years, centering her practice in joy, humor, imagination and the strengths perspective. Vering began experimenting with video-based drama therapy techniques while working at a nursing f...

FEATURED GUESTS:  Kathleen Horne, M.A. LMHC, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT), Registered Expressive Arts Consultant Educator (REACE) has been a psychotherapist since 1980 and an expressive arts therapist since 1996. She has a M.A. in Counseling from University of South Florida, and a Graduate Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies. Her trai...

FEATURED GUESTS:  Melissa Wesner is a type A, counseling nerd who likes to cross her t’s and dot her i’s. She’s often the person to rain on the parade by asking, “I wonder what kind of documentation we would need to do that” in the midst of a really exciting work conversation. She’s the person who thinks about risk management, liability, and documentation and who reads the books and signs up for A...

FEATURED GUESTS:   Jacob Nordby is the author of The Divine Arsonist, Blessed Are the Weird, and The Creative Cure . He is a passionate researcher and teacher of creativity, healing, and human potential. Co-founder of the Institute for Creative Living Foundation, and A Writing Room community with Anne Lamott and others. He loves to invite others into lives of joy and healthy creative expression on...

FEATURED GUESTS:  Mariana Alessandri, PhD, is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). She is cofounder of the Rio Grande Valley Parents United for Excellent Dual Education; its mission is to promote bilingualism and biculturalism at UTRGV. In her new book, Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods, Mariana asks readers to rethink dark moods l...

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 Coaliti...

FEATURED GUESTS:   Renee Turner, Ph. D., LPC-S, RPT-S™, is an author and speaker specializing in treating children and adults with grief and childhood trauma. Her advanced training includes EMDR, SE, Integral Breath Therapy, and various expressive therapy modalities. She is passionate about helping others navigate through grief and soul pain associated with disenfranchised grief and loss, complex...

Today's episode is all about what you need to know before leasing or buying an office for your practice. My guest is Colin Carr, founder of CARR Healthcare Realty. He and his nationwide team of realtors specialize in working with commercial real estate services for healthcare tenants and buyers. They are the leaders in this niche nationwide! Colin is a wealth of knowledge and shared fantastic...

FEATURED GUESTS:  Becca Rich is a visionary, cutting through the BS of the billion-dollar productivity industry creating a ripple effect with Holistic Time Management. She helps business owners and professionals heal from time scarcity and shows them how to team up with time to work less and live more. As a trauma-sensitive, certified holistic coach with a background in engineering and mindfulness...

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 fo...

FEATURED GUESTS:  Amanda Shaw, MA, LMHC, ATR, is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida (MH 20223) and certified art therapist (ATR), who is the sole owner of her private practice Create Flow Heal Art Therapy & Counseling LLC located in sunny Saint Petersburg, Florida. Using a holistic, client centered approach, she provides mental health counseling and art psychotherapy to adolescents,...

FEATURED GUESTS:  Julie Herres is an expert in Profit First who has helped hundreds of private practice owners gain financial freedom. Founder of GreenOak Accounting, the country’s largest firm serving the mental health industry, Julie is an accountant, consultant, speaker, author of Profit First for Therapists and host of the Therapy for Your Money podcast. LISTEN & LEARN:  What is the Profit...

FEATURED GUESTS:  Mindy Jacobson-Levy, MCAT, ATR-BC, LPC, LPAT, PAATA HLM is a board certified, registered art therapist, a licensed professional art therapist (NJ), a licensed professional counselor (PA & NJ), and a trained SoulCollage® Facilitator. She is the President of the Pennsylvania Art Therapy Association (2023-2025), and previously received the Honorary Life Member Award (1996) and I...

FEATURED GUESTS: Charlotte Reznick, PhD has dedicated her life to helping children, adolescents, parents, and professionals. She is a foremost authority on how to engage with and develop mindfulness, meditation, and imagination in children and teens. Dr. Reznick is author of the Los Angeles Times bestselling book, The Power of Your Child's Imagination: How to Transform Stress and Anxiety into...