Welcome to TherapyWalks Presents - TherapyShorts: For Healing From Your Pocket. In this episode, host Atara Vogelstein introduces this series of therapeutic shorts. Atara (she/her) is a Drama Therapist and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist in New York. Atara has experience providing trauma-informed and body-centered psychotherapy to individuals and groups of varying ages and populations, with specialties including trauma and attachment, stress and anxiety, emotional and behavioral regulation, and self-esteem and empowerment.
Throughout her life and this pandemic, Atara has found relief and restoration through being outdoors and interacting with nature. By implementing TherapyWalks into her psychotherapeutic practice, Atara intends to merge the healing qualities of the natural world with her expertise in creative arts therapies and transforming internal worlds. Atara brings a commitment to social inclusion, diversity, and justice; to being an ally to marginalized communities and actively responding to systemic and intergenerational trauma, abuse, oppression, and racism through her therapeutic, artistic, and personal work. Atara carries patience, energy, joy, creativity, empathy and understanding. Atara welcomes movement and stillness in all therapeutic journeys toward becoming unstuck and discovering change. Atara received her M.A. in Drama Therapy from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development, and her B.A. from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Atara is a member of the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA).
Disclaimer: while elements of this series or episode may be therapeutic to listeners, this series is not nor is it intended to be therapy or any form of psychotherapy, which requires a contractual agreement between therapist and client. If you are in need of urgent mental health support, please contact a mental health professional, a crisis resource center, or emergency services in your area (or call Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255).