Many 10.27 Healing Partnership staff members are feeling hopeful about the fast-approaching spring! While I am a winter person myself, I still appreciate the changing of the seasons and the inevitable flow of nature. With spring comes change, and at the 10.27 Healing Partnership we are experiencing some very welcome changes. We have two new part-time staff at the center that some of you may have already met. James Bowen is our new part-time clinician. They can both take new clients themselves and help people find the mental health resources or counselors that they need. I’m excited to share more with you about James and their experiences soon. Our other part-time staff member is Elana Moise Vitek, who recently moved to Pittsburgh from the Bay Area. Elana practiced as a therapist in California and has taken on the role of “Concierge” with the 10.27 Healing Partnership. You’ll see her leading programs and being a friendly face in the center to anyone visiting. Elana joined the 10.27 Healing Partnership because she saw how readily we embrace the arts as a means of healing and because she felt deeply emotionally impacted by October 27th. She grew up in a household that valued psychology and paying attention to the underlying needs and emotions of what people are trying to communicate. She was also a dedicated ballet dancer, attending ballet school in Manhattan before attending Tisch, NYU, and then graduate school in San Francisco to get her Master’s in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Expressive Arts. |