Expressive & Somatic Therapies

I am a graduate of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling MA Program at Goddard College, with a Concentration in Expressive Arts Therapy. Currently, I see individual clients at the Center for Integrative Health (CIH) in Hanover, NH, where I am also the co-director and  coordinate Community Programs.

Clinical Mental Health Counseling encompasses a number of approaches that unite the analytic (right-brain) and intuitive (left-brain) capacities of the client, in order to bring healing to the whole person. 

Expressive Arts Therapy is an intermodal approach that invites spontaneous creativity as a way of accessing strengths, resources, and insights that may lie outside the client's everyday perceptions of themselves and their life-situations. I am a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT). Working with visual arts, movement, sound, writing, and visualization, I help clients re-discover their wholeness, playfulness, power, and resilience. Since we are working with innate capacities that are part of your birthright as a human being, you do not need to "be an artist" to benefit greatly from this kind of therapy.  Click here for more information about Expressive Arts Therapy.

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a trauma-resilience modality that works with the present-moment experience of the body, the client's own embodied resources, and the supportive presence of the therapist in order to release held patterns of fear and pain, and re-set the client's nervous system to a healthier baseline level of activation. As an SE practitioner (SEP), I take great care to work at a level that is manageable and effective for my clients, and to teach repeatable skills that clients can access on their own. Click here for an informative article about Somatic Experiencing.

Safe Space
I am committed to providing a safe space for clients of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and sexual orientations. All are welcome here.

For more information: ​https://www.center4integrativehealth.org/julieputtgen.html
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Julie Püttgen, LCMHC, REAT, SEP, MFA
​Center for Integrative Health
45 Lyme Road
Suite 200
Hanover, NH 03755
(802) 727 0494
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