Deborah Tallarico, MA, LCMHC
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor
& Visual Artist
Deborah Tallarico, MA, LCMHC
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor
& Visual Artist
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As a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in private practice in Boone, NC, I offer compassionate counseling and psychotherapy with a Jungian depth psychological approach. In this work together, I guide clients to explore deep feelings, stories, dreams, image making, body awareness, and imagination to support self-understanding of both conscious and unconscious patterns and experiences. Through the work of holding this understanding, and accepting the individual's unique experience, a new sense of self can shine through.
BIO:
I have been licensed as a counselor since 2011, after completing an MA degree in Community Counseling and Expressive Arts Therapy from Appalachian State University. I continue to deepen my knowledge and experience through Jungian analytic training with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Other life experiences include 20+ years in working as an artist and yoga practitioner, and a previous career working 20+ years as a Registered Nurse. My varied life experiences, skills, and creativity inform my work, where I serve to nourish growth towards integration, wholeness, soulful healing, and transformation.
Counseling and Psychotherapy
I work with individual adults, adolescents, and children,
and specialize in working through experiences of depression, anxiety, trauma, loss and grief, life change, and stress. In my work with clients, we also explore creativity, wholeness, spirituality, life meaning, and in-depth self understanding.
Please call for availability and questions: (828) 773-7891.
My work is grounded in personal and professional experiences of healing and integration. I see each person in their unique story, with the creative potential to make life changes, and an innate ability to heal. I serve as a witness and guide, offering acceptance, empathy, support, reflection, insight, interpretive understanding, creative challenge, and encouragement. From experience and study of Jungian theory, Existential, Humanistic and Gestalt approaches, and from work within the Expressive Arts, I offer my therapeutic services. Through exploration and acceptance of past and present experience and in following the purposeful movement of the Self, the movement toward wholeness, I assist in the unfolding of conscious awareness and transformation.
Yoga & Movement
As a trained yoga instructor, Authentic Movement practitioner, and Registered Nurse, I understand body-mind- spirit-soul integration and nervous system regulation as essential for a sense of well being. Working with body awareness, sensations, and feelings in session is necessary for moving through traumatic or difficult experience and memories, integrating aspects of self, and moving forward in present awareness and action.
Expressive Arts
The Expressive Arts within a therapeutic counseling practice may be described as the use of drawing, writing, poetry, painting, movement, collage, music, voice, theater, and other art forms, for the purposes of growth and healing. Expressive arts work can aid in the understanding and integration of difficult feelings, thoughts, and life experiences. We can build resources, develop coping skills, and make mind- body-heart connections through the arts. We can create compassion for self and others, increase awareness and sensitivity, and expand creative problem solving. While engaging in the arts we can express ourselves, play, find joy, congruence, and a greater range of response to life. Through the expressive arts we can develop an authentic relationship with ourselves and with life.
Art & Expression
As an artist exploring image, I find meaning and healing in creative meditation, playful exploration, and reflective understanding. I hope to offer some of that experience and sensibility in sharing my work with others. I paint on reclaimed wood and donate 10% of my sales to forest and wildlife preservation organizations.
Artist Statement
Creating art is a process, continually unfolding, continually offering a new story, a new image, a new sense of self. In 1994 I began writing poetry and in 1996 I started making images as part of an intensive self-exploratory process. I have created art ever since. Art, or image-making has been and continues to be a joyful process - one in which I create cathartic release and explore feeling, thought, and new ideas - where I develop self-awareness and self-compassion. I believe in the creative process as a way of connecting to our deeper nature, as a way of finding our truth, and as a way to practice re-creating our lives and ourselves. My process with art making has been and will continue to be a meaningful part of my life. I encourage others who feel drawn to image-making to begin and to continue the journey. - D.A.Tallarico
Contact Info
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