Contact Info:
Toronto, ON M4S 2C6 CANADA
Phone: 416-315-5156
Fax: 416-449-2693
Email: bmerkur66@hotmail.com
Website: Bodymind Focusing
URL: http://www.bodymindfocusing.com
Website: art therapy insight
URL: http://www.arttherapyinsight.com
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Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist (FOT) Information:
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Clinical Training: art therapy, expressive therapies, EFT, EMDR
Licensed By: the Canadian Art Therapy Association, The Ontario Art Therapy Association; The Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists
FOT Specialty Areas: Children, Trauma, Adolescents, Eating disorders, Adults, Body Psychotherapy, Couples
Other Specialty Areas: eating disorders is my major specialty;
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Focusing Trainer Information:
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- I offer Focusing training in individual sessions.
- I offer Focusing training in individual phone sessions.
- I offer Focusing workshops.
- I am available for public presentations.
- I am a TFI Certifying Coordinator. I offer training to become a TFI Certified Focusing Professional.
- I offer Focusing Workshops by phone.
- I am available to travel to teach workshops.
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Focusing Trainer Specialty Areas: Children and/or their teachers, Spirituality/Meditation, Adolescents and/or their teachers, College students and/or their teachers, Creative process, Children, Parenting, Medical Applications, Social Change/ Conflict Mediation/ Community Development
Other Focusing Trainer Specialty Areas: focusing
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Personal Statement about Training Program:
Because I am a creative arts therapist, I have a special interest in bringing the creative arts and focusing together. I have created an interest group in Toronto that is exploring this combination for personal and professional purposes. My experience in teaching art therapy at the post graduate and Master's levels allows me to adapt creative ways to teach mainstream focusing. I have created Focusing Frames which combines imagery and focusing and can be used as a self-therapy, within partnerships, and in a therpeutic relationship. My training program involves 6 core courses (taming our critics; the alchemy of emotions, our sacred contract, focusing and self care, focusing and the creative arts, focusing on dreams, on relationships, and personally designed programs) and a final theoretical and practicuum course.
A Sample of my Work:
'Focusing is a way of creating a healthy environment which will enable the person’s essence to come forward in little steps' (my Focusing Frames book, presently in-the-making).
My Publications:
'Ann's Journey Towards Greater Authenticity',The Canandian Art Therapy Association Journal, Spring/Summer 1993; Volume 7 Number 1
'Focusing-Using-Art with Adolescents', The Folio, Volume 16, No. 1-2, 1997
'Making Art That Moves You', The Focusing Connection, May, 2006; vol. XX111, No. 3.
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