blue::artt
Therapy for youth, adults & artists |OR & WA
“The child in each of us knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was or home as it should have been.”
Approach
I work with youth 9+, adults, families, artists and fellow therapists in Oregon and Washington. My physical practice is located in Portland, OR.
I am a multimodal artist, mother and learner. I have worked with youth and adults in hospital, residential, community based and outpatient settings since 2009.
Art therapy and brainspotting offer the means to process more deeply than words alone. Both tap into implicit experiences held in our postures, expressions, reactions and beliefs. Both reach beneath our cognitive awareness to the parts of us deserving reprieve.
My work draws from Polyvagal Theory, IFS, Feminist, Emotionally Focused, Psychodynamic, Relational and Experiential practices. My approach is warm, direct and cushioned with levity.
I am a board certified Art therapist (ATR-BC) licensed in both Oregon (LPC) and Washington (LMHC). I have completed Levels I & II of Brainspotting and am in the process of certification.
2015-Master of Arts in Art Therapy, NYU
2008-BA Art Practices PSU
Beth Purcell|she/her
LPC, LMHC, ATR-BC
Philosophy
Mental illness is inextricable from the social and political landscape. I frame interpersonal truths within the context of white supremacy, racism, classism, fatphobia, ableism and systemic harm toward gender diverse and queer people. Disrupting these systems personally and professionally is my imperfect practice.