Hesper Juhnke, LCAT
Hesper Juhnke is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist with over 9 years of experience with children, teens, adults, and families in schools, detention centers, art studios and outpatient clinics. Hesper specializes in working with anxiety, depression, adjusting to divorce, difficult family dynamics, and struggles with relationships. She believes that, like all relationships, therapy is built on trust, safety, and a strong partnership in which you can explore your most vulnerable parts with intention, curiosity, humor, and even joy.
Hesper’s style integrates a combination of the arts and psychodynamic talk therapy. Her approach is derived from person-centered, psychodynamic, existential, and attachment based practices. Creatively, she works with body-oriented modalities such as drama therapy and play therapy, as well as writing, visual art, movement, and music. She works to integrate these creative offerings into sessions for individuals at all levels of comfort, so no previous experience with the arts is required.
Working with Hesper, clients aim to create new internal pathways, work through conflicting thoughts, and open up new perspectives to old patterns. Hesper is committed to creating space that allows open exploration of race, gender, and sexuality. She is active in her own work to working to becoming an anti-racist, anti-ableist, LGBTQIA+ affirming practitioner and person.
Hesper received a Master’s degree in Expressive Arts Therapy and Mental Health Counseling from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She also holds a BA in Vocal Performance and Psychology from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. She has additional training with the Boston Graduate School for Psychoanalysis (One Year Program), The Institute for Existential-Psychoanalytic Therapy, and The Institute for Developmental Transformations NYC. She is certified in Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing, a sensorimotor art therapy approach. She is additionally interested in community healing practices, such as restorative justice, mutual aid, and intentional living communities.
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