What if creativity is not just part of it—but all of it?
Art For The Heart © is a uniquely engaging twenty-week expressive art therapy program, designed to spark creative insights, and provide measurable mental health improvements.
Bringing imagination and creativity to life provides a vision of hope and possibility.
Therapeutic Expressive Creative Arts Groups are designed to help people restore balance in their lives as they navigate the demands of school, work and relationships at home and in the community.
Art for the Heart © is an integration of weekly art projects with supportive group coaching which provides a beneficial alternative program to traditional art or other group work.
Our primary intervention is through group coaching. The opportunity to build on social and relational skills in group art sessions is enormous. We also offer individual family coaching and training in our system and programs. Groups meet weekly for an hour in person or through Zoom for those who have travel or health concerns. Art group projects have included acrylic painting on canvas, watercolors, drawing, decoupage, beading and incorporated music, photography and poetry.
Previous groups have been resoundingly successful (with a high return rate) and provided measurable benefits to clients with improvements in socialization skills, executive functioning, self-awareness, creativity, self-confidence, and improvement in other problematic symptoms. Groups can run between 10-20 weeks and a supply box is provided free for every client which contains all supplies necessary for every project on the syllabus.
*Disclaimer: This program is not intended to diagnose or treat mental or emotional disorders, but is intended to help people develop balance in their life through coaching techniques.
“Art heals by accepting the pain and doing something with it.”
-Shaun McNiff
Dr. Kathryn Vecchio
Duke trained Integrative Health Coach
Certified Divorce Coach
Background
With over 30 years experience in the clinical coaching field. I have worked with individuals, couples and families with a specialization in art and group coaching.
I will work to help you achieve significant measurable and sustainable behavioral change with the understanding that change is a process, not an event. I am committed to providing the highest quality coaching while adhering to the highest ethical standards. We will work together to change the bottom line!
Areas of Expertise
Identification and management of chronic issues including:
Compulsive overeating
Chronic pain
Leadership and team development
Stress and its effect on you, your family and personal relationships
Assistance with divorce and custody issues
Military Culture Training
Accomplishments
I served as a Staff Psychologist for a maximum security prison in North Carolina where I managed the psychiatric in-patient unit, assessed custody levels and provided services to death row inmates. I am licensed to provide independent psychological services in the state of North Carolina.
I co-authored a study that determined a company’s return on investing in a psychological educational program aimed at evaluating a company’s placement of its management team at various levels.
I accepted a Vice-President’s position with the Highlands company that went on to develop and implement the program, not only in the United States, but in parts of Europe as well.
I worked as a Private Practice Psychotherapist for many years in North Carolina working with many ages and backgrounds.
Most recently, after receiving my Integrative Health Coaching Certification from Duke University, I was part of team that contracted with the U.S. Army in Ft. Bragg, N.C. As health coaches, we were partnered with soldiers preparing for deployment.
“Tug on anything at all and you’ll find it connected to everything else in the universe”
-John Muir
“Kathryn’s gentle nature and sensitivity, coupled with her years of experience in counseling, invites me to share from my heart. She has opened my eyes to areas in my life that needed attention, and given me the encouragement to believe in myself.”
Alice J. Wisler
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