Meditate, Create, Relate

About Mindy

I have always been an artist & for as long as I can remember, I wanted to help people, to be of service. As a student in a fine arts program, I was beginning to see how the more difficult things in my life were starting to come through in my paintings - I wasn’t trying to process them, they were just showing up. I heard about art psychotherapy & the possibility of helping others through art. It resonated with me & I completed a Master’s in it a few years later. Since then, I have trained in trauma, grief, somatic psychology, interpersonal neurobiology, & trauma-informed expressive arts psychotherapy.

In 2021, I trained with Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach in their Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certificate Training Program (MMTCP). This training changed my focus in so many ways & helped me better understand mindfulness & meditation as simple yet powerful practices. I also became aware of significant overlap between expressive arts & mindfulness, which led to intentionally working to combine the two. Since graduating from the MMTCP, I have been working to develop Expressive Arts Meditation classes, drawing on my professional bag of tricks to combine movement, drama, music, sound, & art-making with meditation & mindfulness practices.

The heart of this work revolves around the fusion of creativity, self- expression, body based processes, mindfulness, community, connection & fun. I find value in using art materials to create & explore connection to the moment, to learning, to the senses & to the deep knowing within each of us. Interpersonal neurobiology is the underpinning of my work, as it offers a biological framework for how humans process stress, trauma, create patterns of interaction, & impact our ability to be present & embodied.

I am a certified meditation instructor & have clinical licenses in New Mexico (LPCC) & Wisconsin (LPC). I am certified as an Expressive Arts Therapist - Trauma Informed (EXAT) & am a Board Certified, Registered Art Psychotherapist (ATR-BC). I am a clinical supervisor, both for graduates earning their professional hours & as an EXAT supervisor in the Trauma Informed Practice & Expressive Therapy Institute. I hope to be a CEU provider in the near future.