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AATA National Office “Be strong, be loud, and be assertive for those you serve.” – Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-6) This week, the AATA joined the National Council of Behavioral Health and over 600 mental health advocates for Hill Day 2019! The advocacy training was packed with strategies, tips, and inspirational moments preparing advocates for meetings with their elected officials the following day.
Susan Boxer Kappel, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT, CGP, Conference Chair
Time is running out to save on conference registration! Register by September 30 at 5:00 p.m. EDT. You can register online or call the National Office at (888) 290-0878 or (703) 548-5860 to register by phone. 
Member CornerAATA National Office
AATA National Office
Thank you to all the friends and colleagues who submitted reminiscences and notes in memory of Don Seiden. Special thanks goes out to Dan Anthon ATR-BC and Mary Andrus DAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, LPC, LCPC who coordinated and organized this article and to Randy Vick MS, ATR-BC, LCPC, HLM for writing the introduction with details of Don’s life.   
Leara Glinzak, ATR, MSAT
What I have learned overall from clients I have worked with is to continue to learn and grow, practice with empathy, and grief and trauma are also more prevalent in client’s lives no matter which population I was working with than I had initially realized when first entering the field.
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Art Therapy in the NewsRivard Report
"Art therapy helped me create a meaningful life without pain,” writes Salina Shelton. “And thanks to my experience, led me to become a certified art therapist which, when coupled with my training as a licensed professional therapist lets me help people in pain. When my clients find out I have chronic pain, they relax and know I am there to help and not to judge them." Washington Post
The call that changed Rep. Susan Wild’s life came the Saturday morning of Memorial Day weekend. The freshman Democrat was at home preparing for constituent meetings, a town hall and a cookout she and her longtime partner, Kerry Acker, were supposed to host later that day when he returned from a New York trip. Fox17
Leara Glinzak, an art therapist and the owner of I Light LLC, has been carting around a massive loom throughout Grand Rapids, Mich. this summer. The loom is part of a community-wide project and Glinzak tells Fox17 that carrying it is "my normal routine by myself." |
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