Your Creative Process
Exploring and Integrating Your Experience in New Ways
Our lives change radically at many crossroads. As we mature there is the possibility of finding a new relationship with ourselves.
Living is a creative process, though not always one we have the chance to reflect upon. Therapy is a relational space where you can change your experience by exploring it in new ways. If you've ever had the sudden feeling that there is another way of looking at a problem or something happens in your life that reorients you entirely, you know the possibilities of bringing attention to your life in new ways. We go along living by a set of assumptions and behaviors that seem to be who we are and then life challenges us in ways that we can't make sense of without growing. A therapist can go with you during times when something is trying and sometimes trying not to come into awareness. If you have already been in therapy, you know that it can offer a relationship that supports a deepening awareness and growth of self.
Unexpected and expected times in life create crisis and also crossroads. These include
relationships
losses
changes
trauma
work
aging
creative process
professional life
As a therapist I listen and go with you into your new awarenesses. We have the option of using dreamwork, your creative process and imaginal forms such as art, sand tray and poetry to facilitate our exploration together.
My Orientation and Background
My early training and therapeutic work was in Psychodrama. This is a method of understanding the self by bringing the inner world outside, onto a stage where the parts can be played with and new roles created. This very concrete method of enacting inner life still influences my individual work with clients. Our inner worlds change our whole lives, but early templates of who we are and who others are first structured our experience and wove the world as we experience it. Therapy lets us stretch, soften, add to and re-weave the strands of our experience. Difficult as it is to change, whether by enacting stories, talking about them, re-experiencing them, or simply paying attention to them in a safe relationship, we do begin to have more choices.
I have continued to work with symbolic expression like psychodrama, sand play, dreamwork, poetry and other creative forms because sometimes symbolic expression is the first way we have of knowing what is going on with us. I draw upon Jungian methods like sand play and dreamwork that can allow us to witness what can emerge by way of the unconscious and the imagination.
I have been in private practice since 1998 in Washington State.
Licensed Professional Counselor, Oregon 2017--present
Licensed Mental Health Counselor Washington State 2013-present
Registered Counselor Washington State 1998--2010
Certified Educator and Trainer of Psychodrama Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy 2007--2019
Practitioner Psychodrama Sociometry and Group psychotherapy 2002--20019
M.A. Clinical Psychology
Antioch University Seattle
Ph.D. Literature Brandeis University (Poetry and Poetics)
B.A. Literature Mills College
Member Oregon Friends of C.G. Jung
Member Northwest Center for Family Development
Member Jungian Psychotherapy Association
Member Sandplay Therapists of America
I am an Approved Washington State Supervisor. I supervise and consult with students and clinicians about Child and Adult Psychotherapy and Psychodrama.
Fees
Adult therapy 50 min 150
Supervision for child and adult therapy 120/hour
Coaching 30 minute sessions 60.00
50 minute session 150
I can send you a receipt to submit to your Insurance. Check with your insurance for their out of network reimbursement percentage if you are interested in that option.
Contact Me
Listening to yourself sometimes begins with someone really listening with you. Not everyone had this growing up. A therapeutic relationship is one of the few places in adult life that you can find listening and new inner resources.
Please contact me by e-mail first. I will get your message faster and make every effort to reply within 24 hours. We can then arrange an online interview to see if we are a good fit. For increased security, please use the
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Claudia Brigid Mosher, Seattle WA