About Mari Grande
Hi. I’m Mari Grande. I am passionate about finding creative ways to connect, heal, and learn.
As a licensed Art and Trauma Therapist, I love working with people and being part of their healing experience.
I developed this space, CHI Creative Healing Integration ™ , from what I believe is my soul’s purpose.
After having a private in-person practice for over 20 years, I leaped to the online world as a venue to reach even more people.
Creative Healing Integration has become a place where there are a variety of offerings and resources. You’ll find courses, guided meditations, and creative exercises to bring calm, clarity, and comfort.
Coming from a trauma-informed background, I am aware of the healing powers that lie within, the courage and grace required to heal from adversity.
This phenomenon is expressed in the Dahlia flower, which I honor as the Creative Healing Integration, Inc., logo.
I chose the Dahlia flower deliberately to represent the courage, beauty, and strength it takes to experience and invite in the healing powers available to you.
Dahlias symbolize grace under pressure, inner strength, and the move toward major life changes (usually, positive changes!).
Dahlias can also represent the balance between certain ideas like relaxation and adventure.
More about me, myself, and I.
While I am a licensed therapist, for this website I am acting as a coach in your creative healing and calming endeavors.
I do enjoy a lifetime love of learning with a focus on the healing arts as you can see with my background and experience here:
Licenses:
Clinical Social Worker in New York, New Jersey, California
Creative Arts Therapist
Fine Arts Teacher
Certifications, Credentials, Designations:
EMDR Certified Therapist and Consultant
Somatic Experience Practitioner (SEP)
Hypnotherapist
Reiki Practitioner
Integrative Trauma Studies
M.A.R.I. (Mandala Assessment Research Instrument) Practitioner
Psychoanalyst, Institute for Expressive Analysis
Art Therapy Board Certification and Registration
Degrees:
Master of Social Work
Master of Fine Arts
Graduate Art Therapy
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Graduate Early Childhood Education
Bachelor of Arts
Well? Ready to explore your inner world through creativity and relaxation?
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