Katherine Paras
Katherine Paras, M.S., ATR-BC, LPAT has dedicated her life to intuitive, creative work that supports the growth and healing of others. The fruits of this focus are many.
Online Classes (CEUs approved by NM Counseling and Therapy Practice Board and NM Social Work Board of Examiners):
A founding faculty member of New York University’s Graduate Art Therapy Program, Katherine Paras has guided classes since 1979 within diverse venues: Norwich University, Columbia University’s Spirituality Mind Body Institute, conferences of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine, and Southwestern College, among others. Optimizing multimodal teaching practices that encourage depth and insight, her current online classes include didactic, experiential, and highly interactive approaches grounded in the mind-body-spirit spectrum of human experience. Classes are informed by Depth Psychology, Art Psychotherapy, Consciousness Studies, Energy Medicine, and the power of the collective grounded in meditative practices of compassion.
The ReVisioned LIfe®, initiated in 2006:
Emerging from her art studio, her ReVisioned Life paintings explore the inner landscapes of her clients’ unanswered questions. These ‘portraits’ gift clients with new insights regarding the challenging realities of their lives. Mentored in consultations with Katherine and guided by the painting, clients clear pathways to new direction and inspire actions aligned with deeper life purpose. Katherine is a lifelong artist. She attended the Currier Museum Art Center, Rhode Island School of Design, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Philadelphia College of Art, now the University of the the Arts (BFA). Curators such as Susan Hirschfield of the Guggenheim Museum and Alan Frumpkin of the Adams/Frumpkin Gallery accepted her work into NYC exhibitions. Argos Gallery and Gebert Contemporary represented her work in Santa Fe.
Supervision and Training:
Katherine Paras, M.S., ATR-BC, LPAT is state licensed and nationally board certified as an art therapist. Extensive experience in Art Psychotherapy, Depth Psychotherapy, Energy Medicine and Consciousness Studies informs the guidance she provides graduate students and therapists. A colleague and longtime friend of Edith Kramer (artist and pioneer of Art Therapy), Katherine also intensively trained in Bioenergy Work with Mietik Wirkus, Craniosacral Therapy with the Upledger Institute, Polarity Therapy at the Santa Fe Insititute of Polarity Therapy, and Training Analysis in Advanced Energy/Mind-Body Healing with Lawrence Watson. Guided by this breadth of perspective, she has been providing supervision and training to graduate students and licensed psychotherapists, both individuals and groups, since 1979.
Art Psychotherapy:
Licensed in the state of New Mexico, Katherine Paras, M.S., ATR-BC, LPAT, provides online art psychotherapy sessions to NM residents. A graduate from Hahnemann Medical School (now Drexel University), Katherine started to practice art therapy in 1972. She worked twenty years in Metropolitan New York helping people of all ages facing a diversity of challenges: Special needs, alcohol and drug addiction, mental illness, intellectual disabilities, dysfunctional family life, acute transitional disorders, medical challenges, as well as people dedicated to personal growth and learning. Living twenty years in New Mexico and, now, Washington State, Katherine continues to help people whose healing path requires a breadth of clinical and psychospiritual perspectives.