Alice Palen, LPC Registered Expressive Arts Therapist
Using Art and Positive Psychology to enhance well-being, manage stress, improve mood, and address anxiety and depression.
About My Practice
Enhance Well-Being To Meet Life's Challenges
Enhance Well-Being To Meet Life's Challenges
Enhance Well-Being To Meet Life's Challenges
- My Commitment: Help individuals increase their overall sense well-being, improve mood, and address problems and concerns without guilt or shame. We work together to identify personal strengths and how to use them to address issues of concern.
- My Goal: Clients leave each session with an increased sense of optimism and confidence in their
- My Commitment: Help individuals increase their overall sense well-being, improve mood, and address problems and concerns without guilt or shame. We work together to identify personal strengths and how to use them to address issues of concern.
- My Goal: Clients leave each session with an increased sense of optimism and confidence in their ability to meet life's challenges.
- My Approach: I use Mindfulness to increase self awareness, and Art to allow the inner voice to speak. Reflection on the process and art piece facilitates developing insight. I guide the individual to identify skills to implement insights gained in the counseling session.
Well-Being Through Art
Enhance Well-Being To Meet Life's Challenges
Enhance Well-Being To Meet Life's Challenges
Expressive Art Therapy
- There is a powerful relationship between emotional health and self expression.
- Art expresses concerns that the individual may not be able to express in words.
- The activity of making art itself is soothing and gratifying bringing comfort to the individual.
- The finished art piece is a concrete expression of the issue and removes guilt and shame from the counseling process.
Positive Psychology
Enhance Well-Being To Meet Life's Challenges
Positive Psychology
What is going well in life is as genuine as what is going badly.
- Positive Psychology is the scientific study of well-being. It is based on the Idea that well being deserves equal attention as troublesome thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
- It identifies 5 aspects of well-being in a PERMA model:
- Positive emotions
- Engagement
What is going well in life is as genuine as what is going badly.
- Positive Psychology is the scientific study of well-being. It is based on the Idea that well being deserves equal attention as troublesome thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
- It identifies 5 aspects of well-being in a PERMA model:
- Positive emotions
- Engagement
- Relationships
- Meaning
- Accomplishments.
- Using the PERMA model, clients explore well-being in their lives, express it in art, and use it as a guide to move forward.