LISA MARIE BRODSKY AUTER, PTP, MADISON, WISCONSIN, USA

I work as a Peer Support Specialist and Supervisor at a mental health nonprofit in Wisconsin, USA. I have written poetry since I was very young and grew up with the innate knowledge that writing offers comfort, validation, and hope. My passions organically led me to discover expressive arts and poetry therapy and I began training in earnest.

As part of my poetry therapy training, I facilitate various writing groups online and in the Madison area. My larger projects, “The I’m Okay Collective” and “Hiraethlon,” invite others to reimagine their concept of “home” and to investigate their creative and emotional identities. In poetry therapy, I focus on the intersection between peer support, poetry therapy, and “parts collaboration.”

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

  • Poetry Therapy Practitioner 

  • BA English/Creative Writing – Loyola University of Chicago

  • MFA Poetry – University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Certified Wisconsin Peer Support Specialist

  • Presenter at the 2022 Mental Health and Substance Use Recovery Conference

  • Recovery Dane Supervisor, overseeing peer support specialists in a nonprofit mental health agency

  • Founder of The I’m Okay Collective, an online community that reimagines and redefines mental health not by assumptions and labels, but by the meaning we assign to our emotional experiences.

  • Author of poetry books, “Motherlung” and “We Nod Our Dark Heads”

  • Former Wisconsin Director of The Alzheimer’s Poetry Project

  • Founder of “Hiraethlon,” various creative offerings that help others find their longing and create their way home.

SPECIAL INTERESTS

  • Incorporating the tenets of Internal Family Systems Therapy and “parts work” into poetry therapy.

  • Poetry for Trauma Survivors

  • Melding alternative practices such as sound healing, meditation, radical acceptance, intentional peer support, and others into ideas of wellness

  • Using all forms of creative expression to hold space for the emotional paradoxes not embraced by traditional mental health systems

Website: www.hiraethlon.com

Instagram: @hiraethlon.offerings

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