Dr h - yoga therapist
Dr Ellen G Horovitz, ATR-BC, LCAT, ERYT 500, C-IAYT, YACEP
Yoga Therapist, Art Therapist, Psychotherapist
Expertise
I have 40 (+) years of experience with patient populations (aged 3-96). I am a licensed art therapist, psychotherapist, registered yoga teacher, trained EMDR clinician and a certified yoga therapist (iayt.org). I am presently COO of the Open Sky Yoga Therapy Training program opening fall 2021. My approach is working within a family systems model using a spiritual mind/body model. (Formerly founder and former director of the graduate Art Therapy program at Nazareth College, I am currently Professor Emerita.) I have authored more than nine (9) books:
- Head and HeArt: Yoga Therapy & Art Therapy Interventions for Mental Health Practitioners, available 2020.
- A Guide to Art Therapy Materials, Methods and Applications: A Practical Step-by-Step Approach (2017) (available in Korean-2019)
- Spiritual Art Therapy: An Alternate Path, 3rd Edition (2017) (available in Korean-2019)
- The Art Therapists' Primer: A Clinical Guide to writing Assessment,Diagnosis and Treatment (3rd edition) (2020)
- Yoga Therapy: Theory and practice (2015).
- Visually Speaking: Art Therapy and the Deaf (2007).
- To learn more visit my Amazon page.
- If you are in NYS and interested in distance therapy, I offer a secure video conferencing platform; we can meet wherever it's most convenient for you.
How I Work
My aim is to partner with you in heath. I want you to leave your session feeling better, but my priority is your overall health. As an expressive art and yoga therapist, I can offer both somatic-oriented work and expressive outlets other than traditional psychotherapy approaches. While we will certainly talk about your issues, we clearly have other means of communication available for articulating and directing your wellness. We can even use free Apps to incorporate art therapy, real-time (and in between sessions), as well as mindfulness meditation and yoga therapy/breathing exercises in our sessions. I look forward to connecting with you and partnering with you in your health and wellness. (If you have any concerns regarding my ability to counsel you depending on your location, just contact me.) We can even meet in the comfort of your home through my telehealth site. I look forward to connecting with you and hope after our brief consult, that we can forge ahead and partner in your health and wellness.