Stephanie Condra

We can both suffer our greatest woundings as well as engage in our deepest healing through relationship. I've found that at the root of almost all issues for which individuals seek support is the disruption in a genuine desire to connect with honesty and respect. I work with individuals and couples on relationship issues in my private practice, and prior to this worked within inpatient hospital behavioral health units with thousands of individuals to shift relational stress and strife.

Within all transformation, there is loss. But when it is loss we did not choose and which seems arbitrarily placed upon us, it deeply disintegrates our sense of trust and meaning within our daily lived experiences. I work with clients around losses of all kinds in my private practice, and prior to this worked within inpatient hospital behavioral health units with thousands of individuals to find meaning and hope in the wake of feeling devastation, bewildering change, and bereavement.

Attachment and extreme stress or trauma are inextricably linked in ways which the field of psychotherapy--especially art therapy--now has evidence based tools and methods to extricate, reintegrate, and heal toward ease and flexibility for clients each and every day. At its most basic level, all therapy is automatically engaging work on attachment as the therapeutic relationship is at the core of the process. It is my honor to implement and explore at every stage of interaction, in all practice.

I hold a Masters of Professional Studies in Art Therapy and Creativity Development, am nationally board-certified and registered as an Art Therapist, and am licensed as a Creative Arts Therapist in New York and as a Professional Art Therapist in New Mexico. I have taught and supervised graduate level students in Art Therapy in renowned programs in New York City, and continue to supervise and consult clinicians in the practice of art psychotherapy today.

Bridging from Jungian analytic thought, I have combined methods for 20 years based in mindfulness practice, bioenergetics including Reiki, somatic psychology including bilateral movement and polyvagal regulation techniques, and the neuroscience that demonstrates the nature of attunement and co-regulation. As an art therapist and community artist, I deeply attend to the communication on a psychospiritual and numinous level of the symbol and the image in communicating hope.

I am insight oriented in practice, combining theories and methods from psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis, object relations and Self psychology to make sense of our drives and the forces that make us who we are--as well as the ones which are not genuine and which we can relievingly shed. Beginning my studies in these approaches since 2006, I have brought them to clients in all the settings I have served in for the past 14 years: psychiatric and medical units, clinics, communities, and shelters.