Katie Curran: How Creativity Helps Us Move Through Grief and Life

Season 5, Episode 4

Today’s Guest: Katie Curran, MA, LMHCA, is a licensed mental health counseling associate located in Spokane, WA. She specializes in working with young adults, artists, grief, witchy folks, and identity/purpose struggles. She utilizes art, ritual, normalization, and alternative approaches to meet individuals where they’re at, recognizing that counseling is definitely not “one size fits all.”

SHOW TOPICS

• Identifying the “language” we speak and using that language through therapy to be our most authentic selves
• Fostering empathy for and humanizing people who are incarcerated and those facing addiction
• The effect of grief on blocking the creative process, and how our art and soul co-conspire to help us face things directly
• Seeing art-making as a somatic methodology for moving trauma through the body

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