Bio
Rachel studied art, world religions, eco-psychology, and counseling psychology at Goddard College. She graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts in 2000. She then went on to received a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Prescott College in 2007. She as since worked as an Art Therapist and Expressive Art Therapist for over 15 years. She has experience in designing & implementing healing rituals for public and private groups, teaching art classes in the public schools, in groups and in private sessions. She is working as an artist & therapist in hopes of creating her own set of unique healing books and card decks & is working to eventually complete a curriculum of study at the collegiate level called "Art & Consciousness." She is licensed in Art Therapy, ATR-BC, She is a candidate for REAT- Registered Expressive Art Therapist, holds licenses in 2 states for Professional Counseling & uses Sandtray and EMDR to assist clients in their healing. Rachel first discovered the healing qualities of making art in her own experience in 1997 when an art piece created positive, powerful change in her life. Rachel was attracted to the field of Art Therapy in 2004 through attending 3 day institute at Naropa University in Boulder, CO. She currently works in the clinical setting, private practice & teaches "Healing Through Art & Transformation" in workshops. These workshops have an emphasis on the process of transformation in regard to healing oneself through an attuning through Art that also connects us to the Earth.
Her art business career began after she studying Art & Healing, Studio Art, Graphic Design, Fine Art & began showing at many local art shows both group & solo in & around The Green Mountain State. She managed a co-operative art gallery in Plainfield, VT "The Blinking Light Gallery" for 4 years before opening her own gallery "Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery" in 2004. Her gallery was founded in Prescott, AZ. & was a cultural staple of the art community until finally moving to Taos, NM in 2011. She moved the gallery to Taos in hopes of creating a new concept contemporary Fine Art Gallery with an emphasis on "Sacred & Visionary Art" & with much success this idea took flight! The Gallery moved to Santa Fe in 2014 bringing it's vision of healing for the community through a special collection of colorful, meaningful, with the sacred/ visionary themes. She is continually devoted to the raising of consciousness & awareness of her viewers and clients through her artwork, gallery and art shows.
See More at the Gallery Website:
www.eyeonthemntgallery.com