The Benefits of Creativity for Those Who Self-Harm

by Haylee Furlow, SHSU Counseling Intern Student

Hope & Harmony Therapy, LLC

           For children and adults alike, creativity can be a great way to express one’s emotions. When we don’t know the right words, we can get our feelings out through our art. Those who self-harm often do so because they feel they cannot express themselves adequately or even at all. Whether they already engage in some creative practice or not, establishing or expanding creative habits can help to express the emotions that may be the cause behind self-harm.

            Multiple articles have lobbied the benefits of creative arts for people struggling with self-harm. In “The Use of Visual Arts Activities in Counseling Clients Who Engage in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury”, research ...

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a prezi by Saima Husaini and Debbie Martin of Hope & Harmony Therapy, LLC along with Ginnean Clevland, Samantha Coy, and Dvora Yampuler.

Hope & Harmony Therapists are committed to offering our clients culturally relevant therapy services. No matter the culture you align yourself with; we will work with you to offer counseling services that work best for you. 

Hope & Harmony therapists have given presentations to other local counselors to help them be better counselors and always keep a clients culture in mind. Below is a link to the presentation on counseling clients who align with Africa American, Latino, Southeast Asia, and LGBTQ.

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Emotional Eating and Controlling Your Addiction to Food

a prezi by Debbie Martin, LPC, LMFTA, therapist at Hope & Harmony Therapy

Let's be realistic for a minute....

Food is an unavoidable necessity of life. We need it to provide the nutrients that allow our bodies to help us survive as human beings. Without food, we wouldn't exist long enough to enjoy the many pleasures that life as to offer; such as love, sex, joy, and success that also provide comfort.  It does sound natural to seek comfort from a basic life necessity, such as food. Doesn’t? Physical comfort is not quite the same as emotional comfort, is it? I wonder why some of us seek emotional comfort from the very life necessity designed to meet our nutritional comfort and needs? Is it because feeling comfor ...

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