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“Inside you is an artist you don't know about”

— RUMI
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ABOUT ME

I'm a spunky, creative healer who's healing herself, a mom and wife, an artist, and a cancer survivor. I'm all these things and yet none of them. I've worked to sythesize the elements that resonated and release the mishaps and failures. I do it to learn and grow forward in my heart. I believe the key to healing - whether physical, mental or emotional - is to attain balance - to take responsibility for ourselves, peeking into every crevice of our lives. 

Experience 

I didn't start out as a therapist, but came to it resisting and fighting. First I was a preschool teacher, then a graphic designer and copywriter, then an art teacher, a kindergarten teacher, a Waldorf teacher, and then finally, an expressive arts therapist. The thread all these callings share is ART! Funny how the very essence of what calls to you is often the very idea we are most blind to...Besides my job experience, I've lived in five different states, where I've started over and recreated repeatedly. The moves, the jobs, the in between journeys and the fact that I bring lots of life experience color every aspect of the therapy I provide you.

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MY SPECIALITIES

  • Adults, Children, and Adolescents

  • Individuals and Couples

  • Relationship Issues

  • Stress and Trauma

  • Anxiety Disorders

  • Depression

  • Self-esteem and Growth

  • Transitions, especially relationship-based

  • Childhood Emotional Issues

EDUCATION

California Institute of Integral Studies
May 2019
MFT in Expressive Arts Counseling

 

Rudolf Steiner College
August 2004
Waldorf Grades Education Certification

 

CSU Sacramento
June 2003
MFA in Education and Art

 

UCLA
June 1989
BFA Art History & Italian

 

LMFT License Number — 132096

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CONTACT ME

While my work office is nestled within the Middle Way Mental Health practice, I also offer other options such as telehealth or doing walk-and-talk sessions at beautiful McKinley Park across the street.

 

 

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PHONE
908-442-3396
ADDRESS

718 Alhambra Blvd (between G & H)
Sacramento, CA 95816

© 2023 by Laurie Richards, Articulate Therapy.

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