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Welcome!
My name is Samantha Mach, I am originally from France. I graduated from Notre Dame De Namur with an MA in Marriage and Family Therapy and Art Therapy.
I have experience working as a school therapist with children from K to 5th Grade, I have also offered art therapy at Stanford Lucille Packard Children's Hospital: Comprehensive Care Program CCP, Inpatient Unite for adolescents with eating disorders.
I have worked as a primary therapist and art therapist in Residential Treatment Center: Center for Discovery CFD for adolescents with eating disorders, and as a therapist and art therapist at an Intensive Outpatient Program for adolescents with eating disorders: Amrita in San Rafael, CA.
I am now in my second year of the Art Therapy Ph.D. Program at Dominican University in San Rafael.
I have experience working with children, young adults, adolescents, and families.
I offered some of my time at:
- Kemp Camp, Juvenille Hall for girls, San Mateo, CA, USA.
- Judge at the Creative Arts Festival at the VA hospital, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
- National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy, NCEFT, Woodside, CA, USA.
Trainings:
Trauma-Informed Practices & Expressive Arts Therapy Institute Program, Equine-Assisted Expressive Arts Therapy- Level 1, E-A EXAT, Colorado, USA.
Presentations:
Graduate Art Therapy Research Conference at NDNU.
Thesis: The Meeting of Two Minds in the Intermediate State: The Art Therapist as a Guide in the In-Between, Immersed and Assisted by Contemplative and Transpersonal Theory.
Awards and more:
● 2021: Notre Dame De Namur University, Belmont, CA, USA.
Master of Arts MFT-Art Therapy. Summa Cum Laude.
2021: Outstanding Oral Capstone Presentation Award
University of Notre Dame De Namur, Belmont, CA, USA
● 2021: Mills Peninsula Scholarship
University of Notre Dame De Namur, Belmont, CA, USA.
● 1996: Fulbright Scholarship at the Australian National
University, Department of Art, Canberra, Australia.
Who We Are
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At Lingering in the art space, we offer a client center, strength, and resilience-based therapy approach.
Holding Space
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At Lingering in the art space, we will together work on creating a personalized, compassionate, and non-judgmental space, where you feel safe enough to explore and find ways for growth and to feel happier.
Art Experiential
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Art may be used to foster insight and new pathways. Research has proven that art therapy may relieve anxiety and depression.