Joni Beckner

Creativity can illuminate our path to healing. Most of us are looking for peace with ourselves, in relationships, and as we move through our world. "

Individual Counseling and Group Support/ Art Therapy

In my work I see individuals or families who are exploring and seeking to heal issues such as loss, depression, anxiety, life transitions, abuse and trauma.

I draw on a wide variety of theories: Client-centered, Existential, and Jungian psychology and combine them in a creative way in my practice to provide an integrative approach which is educational, solution-oriented and transformational. I am a practicing artist and use techniques and theories which resonate with the client to illuminate a path to change & healing through creativity.

Some of the tools I use in my work are: all forms of art making, journaling, goal setting, relaxation techniques, guided visualizations, and creative writing, stress reduction techniques, reframing, mindfulness and meditation techniques.

My …undergraduate degree is in social work and I completed my masters degree in art therapy and counseling in 2008. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a registered and board certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC). I have spent nearly 30 years working in the mental health field and for the last seven years have held a position as a program director at HopeWest in Grand Junction, Colorado, where I have been employed for 21 years. I’ve spent eight years developing a part-time private practice at ArtLight Therapy & Studios - Illuminating the path to healing through creativity.

Art Education: Drawing, Watercolor painting and Pastel – classes and private instruction.

Contract Art Therapy services for organizations and agencies to provide creative staff education/ support and art therapy for individual clients and groups. (ie. , partnering with Sozo Youth Sanctuary Foundation to provide creative sanctuary for adolescents with history of trauma)

Open Studio projects for women and adolescents provide an inspiring, fun, sacred environment where creative expression and self discovery are cultivated and nurtured through quality art education that focuses on celebrating creativity, heightening personal intuition, and supporting a community of kindred spirits through Art.

Art exhibits for individuals or groups who appreciate the therapeutic and healing values of art making and for clinicians who use art making as a way of professional processing.

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