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Carey MacCarthy Selected as Top Art Therapist of the Year 2024

Carey Maccarthy featured on the NASDAQ billboard in New York Times Square, for being awarded Top Art Therapist of the

​Year 2024.

Native America Calling:

Art Work To Heal

Carey MacCarthy MA, ATR, LPCC, Interviews on National Public Radio (NPR),

Native America Calling May 2019

Join me in this engaging conversation with Misty Flowers, Dakota/Tlingit, the Former Executive Director of Nebraska Indian Child Welfare Coalition, where we discuss the importance of the arts in Native American Culture for Self Care.

In this video, you will hear about:

- How art therapy engages the right brain to heal trauma and integrate memories

- The impact of generational and historical trauma and how art therapy can disrupt these cycles

​- ​​Carey’s vision to expand her art therapy programs globally, including translations for different languages and adaptations for various cultural contexts

Start Up!

Indigenous Healing Arts Alliance,

Call To Action Video 2015

This video is an archive of Indigenous Healing Arts Alliance, 501(c) 3 non-profit organization, which houses the START UP! Art Therapy System™

HEAL THE PEOPLE. HEAL THE PLANET.

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