Emily Natale, LMHC ATR

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Emily believes everyone is able to access their own innate healing through creative methods. She supports her clients by offering art therapy, mindfulness, breath-work, and somatic techniques to facilitate healing. She offers a sacred space and time, as well as caring support, for folks to do their healing work.

 

Emily specializes in working at the intersections of psychological trauma, chronic pain, and spirituality. She also specializes in children's mental health and enjoys supporting youth who may been called "old souls" or creative-visual thinkers.

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She formally studied expressive art therapy and mental health counseling for her undergraduate (2007) & graduate degrees (2011). Both were obtained at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Most of her art training was done at Art Institute of Boston & Lorezno di Medici in Florence, Italy. She continues to deepen her practice and learn new mediums. She is certified in applied polyvagel theory for yoga therapy, and continues to study and deepen her practice of the neurobiology of interpersonal healing within the expressive arts.​​
 

She's also spent time working in project management, entrepreneurship /innovation, hospitality & research. She values learning & continues to develop new techniques and methods. Her personal time is often spent gardening, swimming, practicing yoga, sharing laughs with loved ones, and of course- creating!

Morgan Johnston, MA, MT-BC

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Morgan holds a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a Specialization in Music Therapy from Lesley University (2020). She has worked with individuals & groups of all ages, on a range of physical & emotional goals; substance abuse centers, schools for adults & children with developmental disabilities, memory care units for older adults, & LGBTQ+ and college partial hospital programs.

 

Morgan embodies a balance of warmth, gentleness, and depth. She takes a humanistic approach to therapy by seeing it as a collaborative process. She enjoys integrating other expressive arts therapies like poetry, music, movement, & art to support folks in finding their personal emotional languages & moving towards their definition of wellness.

 

She specializes in supporting individuals who may struggle with their inner critic, academic challenges for college age adults, and creatives' general mental health. She is a pre-licensed mental health counslor and currently working towards her independent license.

Susie Schutt, MA, RDT

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Susie is a masters level therapist and a registered drama therapist focusing on trauma-informed drama therapy and expressive therapies. She uses a person-centered, social justice & feminist approach and incorporates mindfulness techniques into her work.  She is in the midst her of life-long anti-racist education. She specializes in working youth transitioning into adulthood and LGBTQ+ folks.

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She believes in a collaborative approach to identifying goals, values, and developing treatments so clients may live meaningful and fulfilling lives.​

 

Through her work as the Director of Education and Drama Therapist at the Gamm Theatre from 2014 to 2022, Susie has extensive experience developing theatre and social emotional curriculum, as well as providing teacher training and classroom support.

 

She received her BA in Sociology; Social Inequality from the University of Michigan, and her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling; Drama Therapy from Lesley University. She is a pre-licensed clinician and working towards her independent license as a mental health cousnelor. She lives in Rhode Island with her dog Gordon.