Some of my Bibliotherapeutic favorites:

 
  • The Brain’s Way of Healing
    Norman Doidge

  • Death Doula’s Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared
    Francesca Lynn Arnoldy

  • Impact of Identity, The Power of Knowing Who You Are
    Irina Nevzlin

  • Love and Rage
    Lama Rod Owens

  • The Land in Our Bones
    Layla K. Feghal

  • Mother Hunger
    Kelly McDaniel

  • Myth of Normal
    Gabor Maté

  • Neurodharma
    Rick Hanson

  • Radical Dharma
    Rev Angel Kyodo Williams

  • The New Codependency
    Melody Beattie

  • Scattered Minds (ADHD)
    Gabor Maté

  • Technofeudalism, What Killed Capitalism
    Yanis Varoufakis

  • To Bless the Space Between Us
    John O’Donohue

  • Unmasked Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
    Dr. Devon Price


Trainings & Mentors

  • Somatic Archaeology™, Ruby Gibson PhD

  • Art Therapy consultations by Haley Fox PhD LMHC ATR-BCCS MT-BC REAT

  • EMDR training by Paula Merucci LCSW

  • IFS-informed Psychedelics Assisted Therapy (Ketamine) trained by Nick Bruss LCSW & Lauren Taus LCSW

  • HeartMath+ The Resilient Heart Trauma Sensitive certification

  • C-DBT, Certified in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

  • EFIT, Emotion Focused Individual Therapy

  • Body Talk Access

  • 200hr Certified Yoga Teacher

  • Reiki III


License

LCPC, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois

MA Art Therapy and Counseling, School of the Art Institute of Chicago


 

9 years of post-graduate clinical practice include experiences in IOP, PHP, inpatient levels of care providing interdisciplinary treatments for addictions, mood and co-occuring diagnoses, OCD, schizophrenia and chronic mental illnesses, vocational and homelessness care. My clinical and administrative trainings are rooted in the recovery communities of Chicago which includes non-profit substance use clinic, juvenile detention center, and veterans housing + vocational agency. I started private practice in 2018 alongside my full time employment, to focus primarily on Brainspotting and Reiki services.

Kaori Wander 2022