Albright Art Therapy and Counseling Welcomes You
"In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak."--Tom Robbins
Dr. Jennifer Albright Knash, DAT, ATRL-BC, LPC/AODA, CCTP, RYT 200
Doctor of Art Therapy, Licensed Professional Counselor/ Addiction Specialty, Trauma Specialist, Yoga Instructor
My focus is on cumulative trauma repair in the context of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics. I specialize in working with children, adolescents, and adults and have been a practicing clinician since 2003. I was previously an adjunct faculty member in the art therapy graduate programs of Mount Mary University and Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods-College. Currently I serve as the Art Therapy/ Counseling Program Chair for Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Art therapy is a methodology that works with the body, mind, and spirit to help people learn to be their very best selves. I hope to instill a sense of healing in each client I get the pleasure to work with.
Areas of Specialty
Attachment and Trauma Repair
Adolescent and Child Mental Health
Addiction/ Dual Diagnosis/ Eating Disorders
Anxiety/ Depression/ PTSD
Women's Health
Doctorate of Art Therapy
July 2014-May 2017
Mount Mary University, Researching Art Therapy as a Bottom Up Processing Modality in conjunction with NMT
Masters Degree in Art Therapy/ Counseling
August 2001-November 2003
Southwestern College, Santa Fe, NM
Bachelors of Arts In English
August 1991-May 1995
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
"There is an interaction between therapist and client, client and art, and therapist and art. There is a safe container in the relationship and in the art. There is the ability to express feelings and experiences that are too terrible to talk about, still allowing the individual to process them without having to verbalize. BEAUTY CAN BALANCE THE INTOLERABLE" (Skaife, 2001).
Art Therapy
Art therapy is excellent for trauma repair. It helps with increasing sensory integration, regulating emotions, increasing relational capacity, and engaging cognitive processing.
Bottom-up and top-down processing exist on a spectrum. Art therapy can intervene on multiple levels.
Art therapy helps people who “pump the brakes and the gas” simultaneously.
Art therapy can engage underdeveloped areas of the brain and help bridge the gap.
Art therapy can create room for transition from a maladaptive to an adaptive response.
Art therapy increases the potential for metaphor and symbolism (abstract concepts) by creating a connection between top-down and bottom-up processing.
The Bottom-up art therapy process increases capacity for relationship.
Contact Me
3383 E. Layton Avenue
Cudahy, WI 53110
PHONE: 901.550.5338
FAX: 414.246.9531
