Ellen C. Knecht, LCSW and Art Therapist

05/01/2024

Free webinar!!
“Emerging digital dangers for families and youth

Training & Programs / Family Digital Wellness

10/14/2023

https://www.facebook.com/100091752036323/posts/235002772901456/?mibextid=cr9u03

Come join us for this meaningful and refreshing experience!

04/11/2023

Come join us!!

02/02/2023

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent:
“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.
Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
God bless you all!"
Kurt Vonnegut

12/21/2022

11/20/2022

This will be a fun time to connect, build community and get creative. No experience necessary! All supplies provided. Cost $30. RSVP by December 1st, 2022. Any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.☕️ ♥️🎨

02/03/2022

Create your own 2022 Intentions Altered Boardbook. This is a 2-part Workshop that will meet the last two Sundays in February from 1-3pm. All are welcome! No experience necessary! 😊 Details below!

02/03/2022

Create your own 2022 Intentions Altered Boardbook. This is a 2-part Workshop that will meet the last two Sundays in February from 1-3pm. All are welcome! No experience necessary! 😊 See details below.

09/28/2020

https://www.healthomind.com/giving-creativity-a-free-rein-is-good-for-your-mental-health-too/?fbclid=IwAR3f8Sx1ZlH7wVGb4TetTHfkp9xM8h7am4Qpyp5OgwTURUvVAsxXzalngrs

Art therapy proponent Dr Girija Kaimal on why it makes sense to draw, colour or just doodle. Recently, I happened to chance on an …

08/29/2020

08/05/2020

https://www.healingmagazine.org/words-matter-how-to-protect-your-child-from-stigma/

Too often we see mental health issues as a sign of weakness, something that we somehow must suffer in silence and/or that we have brought upon ourselves.

04/22/2020

"I know times are difficult right now, and it may seem so far away before we can become whole again. Nevertheless, the latest research on postraumatic growth can offer you some hope that we will most likely come out stronger, more creative, and with a deeper sense of meaning that we ever had before." - Scott Barry Kaufman via Scientific American

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/post-traumatic-growth-finding-meaning-and-creativity-in-adversity/

Resilience and strength can often be attained through unexpected routes

03/29/2020

03/28/2020

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