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A welcoming and creative space designed to encourage each persons innate creativity and desire for self awareness.
We are a small 'group' of like-minded clinicians who bring our different personal and professional background together to create a safe therapeutic environment that is conducive to change. We all believe that for therapy to make deep and lasting changes, the process must engage the body mind and spirit of each person we work with.
We encourage our clients to express themselves through getting dirty with art, making music, or even putting together a creative dance movement, along with the traditional comfortable couch if that is preferred.
The BRAINsmART Expressive Way
The Expressive Arts allow us to uncover and discover an authentic NEW IMAGE of our SELF from INSIDE OUT -through the musical, visual, and movement strategies that open our heart, mind, and body.
Founder
Nancy E. Lubow, PhD LPC MT-BC
I am first and foremost an artist, thriving on art and piano lessons since the age of three, thanks to the visionary parenting of my poet -painter mother. As a teacher, I taught the skills of classical piano and the visual arts for twenty years in private school and conservatory settings. It was during a piano lesson with one of my most gifted students that I had the 'ah-ha' of a creative insight and changed the course of my career. I suddenly knew- without a doubt- that the true purpose of the arts was to heal and integrate the body, mind, and emotions of people at all stages of development.
I am still a teacher and my passion to teach is expressed with both clients and other professionals in the field. I want to share how the creative arts and neuroscience work hand in hand as agents of therapeutic change. It is my mission to increase the awareness of how the cross modal utilization of the arts can scientifically re process and integrate the full range of traumatic experience. I had a unique and long term experience of creative immersion in the visual and musical skills, with a life time of dance and expressive movement arts. This arts-based Brain-smart is the foundation on which I build my contribution to the field of psychotherapy, education, and neuroscience.
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors in Music and Art History, 1972
Immaculata University
MA in Psychology and Music Therapy, 1998
Union Institute and University
PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies 2003
Specializes in
• Trauma and PTSD
• Eating Disorders
• Sexual Abuse
• Dissociative Disorders
• Mood Disorders
• Personality Disorders
Experience with
Addiction • Anxiety • Bipolar Disorder • Career Counseling • Child or Adolescent • Chronic Pain • Depression • Developmental Disorders • Divorce • Domestic Abuse • Domestic Violence • Drug Abuse • Dual Diagnosis • Emotional Disturbance • Family Conflict • Grief • Life Coaching • Relationship Issues • Self Esteem • Self-Harming • Sexual Addiction • Spirituality • Substance Abuse • Suicidal Ideation