Nora Swan-Foster, M.A.

1137 Pearl Street, Suite 205
Boulder, Colorado 80302

(303) 440-4000
www.swanfoster.com

Licensed Professional Counselor

Patient Age Groups:
Adults
Young Adults
Mid-Life Adults

Serving:
Couples
Individuals
Groups
Women

Education:
Masters in Expressive Arts Therapy, Lesley College, 1986; B.A., English Literature, UW - Madison, 1983; Registered and Board Certified Art Therapist; Training Candidate, Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts

Background / Experience:
21 years post-degree experience as a counselor and art therapist in medical, inpatient/outpatient mental health; 14 years private practice; 8 years as graduate level art therapy instructor training therapists

 

Professional Interests / Specialties:
• Offers a warm and creative environment for safe emotional exploration
• Approaches major life transitions as opportunities for personal growth
• Provides guidance to accept and transform traumatic memories and develop healthy
  emotional responses and behaviors
• Experience with creative and spiritual renewal, depression, anxiety, illness, trauma,
  and grief and loss
• Special interest in women's life transitions including childbearing issues
• Tools to engage the symbolic and imaginative worlds to build bridges and to heal wounds
• Jungian dream analysis, active imagination, and sandtray to access your innate
  wisdom and health
• Art therapy as primary or adjunctive service, assessment, consultation and supervision

Professional Affiliations / Activities:
American Counseling Association
American Art Therapy Association / Art Therapy Association of Colorado
Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA)
Boulder Friends of Jung - Founding Member
Boulder Institute for Psychotherapy and Research (BIPR)