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Combining clinical and artistic perspectives, this book offers a fresh, creative approach and practical tools for working through depression and anxiety. Depression and anxiety can feel like being overwhelmed by darkness, wondering when you'll see the light at the end of the tunnel. Turning this metaphor around, Hazal Selcuk will show you how to bring light into the tunnel. Combining clinical and artistic approaches, she offers practical help to work through anxiety or depression and more clearly see how to move forward. Taken together, the arts and psychology-integrating the non-linear and linear, the intuitive and analytic approaches-offer a powerful combination for healing. The innovative methods that Hazal presents in this book offer new ways to be with oneself that will foster both self-expression and self-healing.

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As a movement and creative arts therapist, Hazal Selcuk has developed innovative ways to treat anxiety and depression. And these techniques really work. The key to their success is that she approaches therapy as a creative process-where you enter a creative state of mind and follow the energy until closure is reached and you can integrate what you have experienced. As she shows, you can use this approach to heal yourself. -Susan Campbell, Ph.D. Author of Getting Real and From Triggered to Tranquil Hazal Selcuk combines the best of clinical and creative approaches to form a powerful set of tools and experiential exercises to help you transform inner suffering. Not just for artists, the creative process offers all of us ways to work through our difficult feelings. Hazal gives you a set of fresh understandings and creative experiences that goes beyond the cognitive approach typical in psychotherapy. More than just thinking differently, its about creatively learning to embody feelings, express and transform them. Hazal blends the best of current somatic approaches to trauma healing with the right-brain expressive processes of artmaking into a powerful program. You don't have to be an artist to benefit, you just have to be willing to explore the natural creativity all of us can experience. - John Grey, Ph.D. Author of Five-Minute Relationship Repair and Relationship Tools for Positive Change

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Hazal Selcuk, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose work with individuals focuses on healing symptoms of trauma, anxiety and depression. Born into a family of artists, for many years before she became a psychotherapist Hazal had a career in music and theater as a singer and solo performer. She also taught university courses on the relationship between art-making and healing. Integrating her diverse background, she provides a creative and innovative approach in her work with clients. Hazal is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, a Registered Drama Therapist and a Registered Movement Educator/Therapist.

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