A licensed mental health professional with experience and training in supporting individuals, families, and groups.

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RP O’Brien,
LMHC, REAT, ICAT, REACE

Areas of specialization include:

• Environmental illnesses—such as long-COVID, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), being sensitive to multiple chemicals, chronic fatigue (CFS), fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), irritable bowel (IBS), POTS, and other mast cell activation related issues and disorders
• Anxiety
• Grief & loss
• Life transitions
• Life-style changes
• ADD/ADHD
• Chronic illness
• Symptom management
• Health & Wellness management
• Caregiver supports

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About:

I am a humanistic, contemplative psychotherapist and creative arts therapist, offering an integrative, holistic, and eclectic approach tailored to the individual needs of my clients. I work holistically, focusing on the physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and spiritual wellbeing of each client and their life as a whole.

My work is narrative and grounded in the power of the client/therapist relationship and collaboration to heal and transform lives as we re-author our life stories and uncover new and deeper meanings.

My approach as a creative arts therapist is intermodal with music and sound, language arts, and the visual arts as my primary arts areas.

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Education:

• PhD Psychology—current candidate (Unisa)
• M.A. Clinical Mental Health Counseling (Lesley University)
• M.A. Education (Goddard College)
• M.F.A. Creative Writing (Goddard College)
• B.A. Art/Fine Arts, Education (Bridgewater State University)
• Diploma Nursing (WalthamWeston Hospital School of Nursing)
• Certificate (4-year Program) Music/Voice, New England Conservatory of Music

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Licensure:

• Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC #8656), Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health and Human Services Professionals check a license
• Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LPCC #CC6644), Maine Regulatory, Licensing & Permitting check a license
• Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC #068.0134407) Vermont Office of Professional Regulation (OPR) check a license
• Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC #3011) New Hampshire Office of Professional Licensure and Certification (check a license)

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Certification and Designations:

• Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT)
• Registered Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator (REACE)
• Intermodal Creative Arts Therapist (ICAT)
• Intermodal Creative Arts Facilitator (ICAF)

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Certificates:

• CELACare Eco-Health Support: Therapist
• CELACare Eco-Health Support: Medical Professional
• Standard Adult Safeguarding (SAFE CIC)
• Nutrition and Wellbeing (University of Aberdeen)
• Medicine & the Arts: Humanizing Healthcare (University of Cape Town)
• Nordoff Robbins Approach to Music Therapy (Nordoff Robbins)
• Music Psychology (Griffith University)
• Making Music with Others (Trinity Laban Conservatoire)
• Poetry and the Holocaust (Yad Vashem)
• Unseen Poetry (University of Reading)
• How to Make a Poem (Manchester Metropolitan University)

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Professional Memberships:

• International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA)
• Transformative Language Arts Network (TLAN)
• International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO)

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CELACare Eco-Health, Inc.