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By: Amy Maricle<\/p>\n

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Happy Creative Arts Therapies Week<\/a>!<\/p>\n

This week I have the pleasure of being interviewed by Janet McLeod, MA, AT, AThR Clinical (Hons) an art therapist and artist in Auckland, NZ.<\/p>\n

I first learned about Janet and her wonderful work last year when I participated in the Art Therapy + Happiness Project<\/a>\u00a0last year and got to enjoy being part of an interactive community of people using the arts for personal and professional healing.<\/p>\n

Janet’s wonderful blog, Positive Art Therapy<\/a>, focuses on the intersections between positive psychology, art therapy, and mindfulness. Janet has been doing a series of interviews with art therapists throughout the world to help highlight the work we do.<\/p>\n

She has interviewed many amazing therapists, including Cathy Malchiodi, Hannah Klaus Hunter, Gioia Chilton, and others, so I feel very honored to be included other blog.<\/p>\n

Janet gave me the opportunity\u00a0talk about what drove me to be an art therapist, and how a secondary trauma experience helped\u00a0make me create the creative self-care approach that I teach clients and art therapists alike. I talk too about the way I weave other approaches into my expressive therapy work.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to read the full interview on Positive Art Therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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