Consultation & Organizations

THEMES AND ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED INCLUDE:

• Communication across generations,
• Diversity and inclusion,
• Ways to establish a health enhancing self-caring worksite,
• Practices for collaborative creativity addressing individual and organizational grief and loss.

SOME OF THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT DR. COLLINS HAS CONSULTED WITH INCLUDE:

• Sisters of St. Joseph at Baden PA. – Experiences of improvisational storytelling in the service of mutual support through loss and celebration of the order’s 150 years 
• Adagio Health Care System – Workshops for women veterans as part of the “I am not invisible’ project  
• Sisters of Divine Providence, Allison Park, PA – The Art of Grieving as key part of their national assembly
• FICA Foundation, Pittsburgh PA – “No More,” – Honoring organizations whose mission is to end violence against women
• Persad Center, Pittsburgh PA – Staying Healthy retreats for people living with AIDS 
• Contemporary Craft Art Gallery, Pittsburgh PA – Opening for international art shows, “Enough Violence: Arts Speak Out,” and closing for “Mindful: Eliminating the Stigma of Mental Illness 
• First United Methodist Church, Pittsburgh, PA – Enhancing liturgy with dance
• Pittsburgh Center for the Arts – Show – “InterPlay”  
• UPMC Office of Diversity and Inclusion – Celebration of Black History Month
• Community College of Allegheny County – Celebrating Diversity

Consultation Individual

For over 40 years, as a teacher, solution-focused psychotherapist, and a national leader in the use of movement and expressive arts therapies, I’ve been assisting people in turning life’s challenges into opportunities for growth, resulting in an enriched life. And now, through advancements in technology, I am able to offer my services to people no matter where they live. My approach, whether delivered in person, through email, zoom, telephone, or some combination of these vehicles, always consists of five elements: 

1. A focus on strengths – we’ll look together at what you do well.
2. Offering ways to increase self-awareness; particularly ways to listen to your body’s wisdom, that part of you that is often “smarter than you are.”
3. Providing provocative questions to challenge assumptions;
4. Encouraging an incremental and playful approach to initiating or responding to change; and
5. Stimulate access to your creativity through the use of art-based forms that clarify the current situation as you choreograph your future.

Our work together can begin with a single conversation!

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