Shereen Bar-or MPS, LCAT, ATR-BC is founder of Art Therapy Collective, a private practice based in Brooklyn, New York and serves as Social Action Chair on the Board of the New York Art Therapy Association. Shereen designs opportunities to engage in creative social justice endeavors and promotes the importance of expression, healing, and community engagement. As the daughter of Iranian Jewish immigrants, Shereen is an active activist, an avid gardener, and emphasizes the importance of self-care and social action within her personal and professional life. Follow @atcbklyn or check out arttherapycollective.com for more information.

Janeen Chasan and Alexa Inserra joins us this week on The Other Couch to discuss their personal and professional experiences with grief.  "Being the therapist you wish you had" is a major takeaway from this episode, as well as understanding what the grief process looks like from a realistic point of view and not rigid stages.  Janeen offers her perspective as an art therapist who works with hospice and has worked through her own complicated grief.  She shares her original archetypes and approaches to grief as a therapist and a human.  Alexa shares beautiful, vivid metaphors that anyone listening will definitely take with them.  As always, please connect with us on social media to continue the conversation and to join our community.  Thank you for listening! 

Steph & Jess are back for a brief discussion on their respective fields and what it means to be a therapist and a human being.  "You can't teach how to be a human being in a textbook".