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Carter Umhau works at the intersection of healing and creative, whether that’s in her roles as a writer of poetry and creative nonfiction, a mixed media artist, a podcast host, or as therapist and coach. Carter is originally from DC, and has a BA in Creative Writing and a MA in Counseling Psychology. Within and beyond her work as a psychotherapist, she has facilitated creative workshops since 2009, inviting individuals to embody the particularities of their own life story through the art-making process. She has created poetry workshops; workshops where she helped doula people’s stories into playwriting; created curriculum for clients in eating disorder treatment to teach creative expression as a means of building shame resilience; and co-founded an improv-based therapeutic dance group. She loves helping others explore how their relationships to creativity, and to food and their bodies can tell a story about who we are and what we most need.
Carter works one-on-one and through unique group workshops for folks that are interested in using creativity as a means to get closer to themselves or transform their suffering.