Erica Kurey ATR-P

Art Therapist

Erica earned her graduate degree in Art Therapy and Counseling from Southwestern College. She completed her undergraduate degree from New York University where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology and Gender Studies at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Erica has experience working with children, adolescents, and adults in a variety of settings, including in-home, early childhood care center, group home, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization care settings. She is passionate about working with individuals from diverse backgrounds in an intersectional, inclusive, trauma-informed, and person-centered approach. Erica has experience working with the LGBTQIA+ population, differently-abled individuals, including those on the autism spectrum, and persons from a wide range of socio economic backgrounds. She continues to work with children and adolescents at Integrated Adolescence program and through Integrated School Services, and with people of all ages through the outpatient program.

Erica feels guided to support individuals to find greater wellness and healing for themselves through the tools of creative expression, play, and talk therapy. She is committed to acting as a conduit for her client’s further spiritual growth and overall emotional wellness with compassion, empathy, respect, non-judgement, intention, honoring, and mindfulness. Erica believes in a holistic, strengths-based approach that fosters inner resources within the client that can build self-confidence and independence for the individual.

Get to Know Erica

In addition to being an Art Therapist and Counselor, Erica also dreams to one day be a published author, and has previously written stories in her spare time. Erica has had experience in a variety of fields, including real estate, tea sales, restaurant server, and pet care, which has built her resilience and capability to connect with a wide variety of individuals and hone the skills of interpersonal communication in a wide variety of settings. This has finally led to her career combining her personal interests of holistic wellness, creativity, and a passion for bringing hope to others into a profession that combines her skills and passions into one role.

In her free time, Erica enjoys drawing, painting, reading books and poetry, taking walks, nature, writing, meditating, doing yoga, thinking, dogs, and hugging her pet cat, Mack. Erica feels inspired by Eastern philosophies of healing, transcendentalism, and Ayurvedic medicine. She is sensitive, strong, imaginative, and kind. She feels deeply connected to her mission to bring light and love to others and in the inherent healing magic of creativity.

Erica Specializes In:

  • Art Therapy
  • Mindfulness
  • Talk Therapy
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Self-esteem
  • OCD
  • Mind-Body
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