Expressive You

Lynn Pollock, MA, LMHC, REAT, is an Expressive Arts Therapist in private practice in Massachusetts. Her clinical work includes over 14 years of experience working in community-based services with children and their families, and in her private practice she specializes in working with adults who struggle with mood, anxiety, trauma, and adjustment issues. Lynn received her Master’s degree from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in MA. She is a Certified Focusing Trainer: Specialization in FOAT® (TIFI) and Certified FOAT® Practitioner (FOAT Institute). She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) and is fascinated by the intersection between EMDR and focusing. She has also recently co-produced a series of training videos, Creative Inspirations from the Field: Staying Engaged with the Arts.

Carla Walmsley-Esteves, MA, BSc (Hons), is an accredited Somatic, Perinatal & Depth Psychology-Oriented Psychotherapist (EAP) and Somatic Movement Educator (ISMETA); Certified Focusing Practitioner (BFA), Certified Focusing Trainer: Specialization in FOAT® (TIFI), Certified FOAT® Practitioner (FOAT Institute), and Formative Psychologist. Her work evolves from 23 years of professional training and experience in several movement/embodiment modalities across the fields of somatic education, perinatal/birth psychology, women’s health, and ecopsychology. Carla runs a private practice specializing in perinatal, birth, and developmental trauma, and collaborates with Texendo Formas Clinic in Brasil supporting social crises. She is a guest tutor at Tariki Trust teaching Ecosomatics combined with movement, FOAT, and ecotherapeutic processes. She is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Ecopsychology and Environmental Humanities, researching her passion: body, ecology, and womb life, whilst developing an approach to education centered on the felt-sense, FOAT, and the formative process.