Svaha Space

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We're accepting case submissions! mail us at connect@svaha.space and sign up for our co-learning supervision and discussion: https://lnkd.in/g-2ik-M3 #mentalhealth #expressiveartstgerapists #counsellingpsychologists #mentalhealthindia #colearning #supervision

Group Supervision and Clinical Discussion is an group learning space where we explore a creative and clinical blend within our therapeutic approach. This is open to students of mental health and the expressive arts therapies, therapists and practitioners within the counselling and expressive-arts spaces, for a co-learning opportunity.  Register here: https://lnkd.in/giQ2Ki9X Supervising Facilitator profile: Shravanthi Venkatesh is a Bengaluru based Psychotherapist and Dramatherapist and has been practicing for 9+ years. She runs a creative-expressive therapy practice called Svaha Space that works on viewing the journey towards mental and overall wellbeing as a space essential for the arts, play, and connection to exist. She primarily works with trauma, grief and loss, shame, and identity. Case submissions: If you are interested in submitting a case for supervision, please mail us for a submission format as soon as possible, and case entries will close on 7th July.  2 cases shall be selected for discussion. If your case is selected for discussion you will be notified by the 11th of July. #therapists #counsellors #mentalhealth #supervision #groupdiscussion #clinicalcases #trauma #casediscussion #colearning #creativeclinical #creativeartstherapies #expressiveartstherapies #dramatherapy

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Creative Mental Health Interventions - what do we at Svaha Space mean when we say that this is the lens through which we see and deliver our therapeutic process? We work with persons going through distress as someone who's mind AND body are engaged in that distress. We actively work on employing art, movement, breath, drama, stories, poetry, music, creative expression, and imagination while we work on the issues our clients bring in. Many ask the question: do I have to be artistic to engage in this form of psychotherapy? The simple answer is, No. There is no pressure on our clients and participants to have to possess any sort of extra quality to want to engage in this way of working on ourselves. As creative arts therapists, we work with our clients' comfort levels; which means, if the client is only comfortable with sitting and talking, we sit and talk; but maybe, during that process we engage with imagination and stories. "It sounds like this is a modality only for children. Right?" Again, the simple answer is No. Tell me of a person who doesn't like a good story, or a person who doesn't imagine possibilities. Tell me of a person who doesn't have a hobby or interest where they experience joy, or a person who doesn't inherently enjoy a sense of playfulness. And when has art and creativity, ever taken away from "serious work". Often, we find that art and creativity lie within the most grounding, connecting, healing and revolutionary practices for the self and the community. We have always measured a culture's conscience and advancement by the creativity and art they engage in, and we study human development within art and creativity when it comes to the evolutionary space, and in civilizations that once stood tall. So would you respond to creativity and the arts in therapy? If you are a living, breathing being, you most definitely would. It is in your DNA. Follow us on instagram: @svahaspace_therapy Shravanthi Venkatesh #creativity #psychotherapy #dramatherapy #creativeartstherapies #art #artpsychotherapy #traumawork #depthwork #dancetherapy #movement #therapists #creativeartstherapists #dramatherapists #expressiveartstherapies #expressiveartspractitioners #mentalhealthindia