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Lauren Daugherty
So I want everybody to take a look at your piece. You have one of two options for our.

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Thomas Ouellette
Lauren Daugherty is a mental health counselor from the Herron School of Art and design. She is serving as the lead counselor for the AMA's Artistic Wellness Outreach program. She believes that artists therapy can reach certain areas where traditional therapy falls short.

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Lauren Daugherty
People who have a really hard time engaging verbally. This can help them organize their thoughts. This can help them get something out on a page that they don't even necessarily have to talk through. It gets it out of their brain onto a piece of paper. So anybody who kind of struggles in that more verbal processing, this is going to be a really great, modality for them to use.

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Thomas Ouellette
The art as therapy sessions can accommodate groups as big as ten people and aims at addressing the mental health needs of attendees through various art forms, such as drawing and painting. Officials see the Artistic Wellness Outreach Program as a way to extend the AMA's impact beyond the walls of the museum. They hope that the program success paves the way for future mental health projects, and Anderson in Anderson Thomas Ouellette IPR news.