https://www.roxieehlert.com/about daily 0.75 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/537063df-eaae-4d56-ad0e-3214c198b11c/IMG_0845.jpg Contact - Roxie Ehlert (she/her) LCPC ATR-BC is an artist, art therapist, educator, and writer. She currently offers trainings, consultation, art therapy supervision and therapeutic support groups. Roxie holds a Master of Arts in Art Therapy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she later taught in the Art Therapy graduate program. Her research examines how sanist stigma impacts mental health providers who also experience “mental illness.” She has worked in community mental health, rape crisis, immigration detention, community studio, and private practice settings. Roxie currently teaches in the Art Therapy and Counseling graduate program at Southwestern College in Santa Fe, NM. As an educator she is committed to creating anti-oppressive classroom spaces that politicize emerging mental health practitioners and foster the development of critical consciousness. Her personal art practice explores themes of dislocation, home, grief, and queer belonging using stitch work, broken glass, printmaking, and encaustic collage. https://www.roxieehlert.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-12-04 https://www.roxieehlert.com/retreat daily 0.75 2025-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/5b792bf7-f603-4e3e-a2fa-70a89624de9a/unnamed.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/18c76639-c38c-4f9d-ad94-e6957171f8e1/Surfacing+our+Wisdom.jpg https://www.roxieehlert.com/retreat-1 daily 0.75 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/5b792bf7-f603-4e3e-a2fa-70a89624de9a/unnamed.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/18c76639-c38c-4f9d-ad94-e6957171f8e1/Surfacing+our+Wisdom.jpg https://www.roxieehlert.com/faq daily 0.75 2025-12-12 https://www.roxieehlert.com/schedule daily 0.75 2025-12-22 https://www.roxieehlert.com/emergence-nm daily 0.75 2025-12-30 https://www.roxieehlert.com/workshops daily 0.75 2025-12-10 https://www.roxieehlert.com/workshops/p/surfacing-our-wisdom monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/a8965784-d7f5-4c6c-973f-a67324ff61c1/unnamed.jpg Workshops - Surfacing Our Wisdom - unnamed.jpg https://www.roxieehlert.com/workshops/p/self-oracle-solidarity-registration-rate monthly 0.5 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/1a9fcc23-2c87-4e9a-a336-14d14a09888d/IMG_7825.jpg Workshops - Self-Oracle Solidarity Registration Rate ($50) https://www.roxieehlert.com/workshops/p/self-oracle-full-cost-registration monthly 0.5 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/825c3e64-991a-42dd-9572-27d79a7c3abc/IMG_7825.jpg Workshops - Self-Oracle Full Cost Registration ($65) https://www.roxieehlert.com/workshops/p/new-years-self-oracle monthly 0.5 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/27d8ef93-0f07-423c-9b3f-76237354ce4a/IMG_7825.jpg Workshops - Self-Oracle Pay-it-Forward Registration price ($75) https://www.roxieehlert.com/work daily 1.0 2025-12-16 https://www.roxieehlert.com/work/2026-retreat monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/b402a005-46b6-4321-8cd5-9cec05dcbbee/Surfacing+our+Wisdom+%281%29.jpg https://www.roxieehlert.com/work/group-offerings monthly 0.5 2025-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/4ee34833-7b64-4bfd-9b6e-1ac563968b76/Version+3-hybrid+%282%29.jpg https://www.roxieehlert.com/work/projects monthly 0.5 2021-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/1631994935842-L8NQ5PL43MWA8I3J5N2J/IMG_0746.jpg Work - Projects - I am a founding member of ArtWorks, a free community art studio that has been in existence since 2007. The mission of ArtWorks is to cultivate inclusive communities through the arts and cultural exchange. Our aim is to foster the development of understanding and compassion between people, despite social and cultural differences. ArtWorks programs are based on these beliefs: that the arts belong to everyone, and that collective art making practices promote respect for difference and inspire positive social change. Studio participants work together to establish and maintain a welcoming and supportive environment where people can learn or share a skill, get to know one another, experience a sense of belonging, and participate in community building through the arts. The initial studio was created in response to NIMBYism (not in my back yard-ism) in a gentrifying neighborhood in Chicago that had long been the home of numerous social service organizations. Some people new to the neighborhood were opposed to being neighbors with people who had serious mental illness, or were homeless, or had problems with substance use. The studio was started on the basis of research showing that stigma is most effectively reduced when people have the chance to get to know each other within the context of a non-contrived situation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/1631996263882-7H6OB83D55LEE9XT006V/IMG_3136.jpg Work - Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/1631995581376-JLPLMYUDBKZI7TJIIED5/IMG_3142.jpg Work - Projects I am a founding member of the L is for Liberation Collective, a small, grassroots group responsible for the creation of the Radicalphabet poster. The Radicalphabet is an alternative alphabet poster intended to teach little ones big ideas about building a better world. The language, images, and concepts we use to teach our children provide not only the building blocks for literacy, but also communicate ideas about what is note-worthy and powerful in the world around them. We worked to create an accessible, reproducible alphabet poster that parents, educators, childcare providers, and other grown ups can use as a springboard for conversations with the little ones in their lives about ideas of community, resistance, power, and difference. While the acts of parenting, caring for, and teaching little ones are often undervalued and depoliticized, we believe they are practices rich with opportunities for orienting young people toward social justice. We imagine the radicalphabet poster as a supportive tool in the struggle to position parenting and care work as central to movement building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/1631997457269-9U7KO7CGCJTIT97BZYGF/IMG_3187.jpg Work - Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/1631997365368-PUTQ90Z10MMFPLFXUDX4/IMG_3180.jpg Work - Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.roxieehlert.com/work/education-trainings-consultation monthly 0.5 2025-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/4ad0a5b7-16c9-4fed-9469-152e54abfdae/supv+plus+tax.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/4ddf694f-b174-4136-8f4f-fadc02bb8061/supv+Fall+Schedule+%281%29.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/9a46c373-0906-4335-becc-50ff4bf8e938/3.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/4802fee8-8f79-48b4-8f9d-a673b30ae0d3/4th+Sundays+new+price.jpg https://www.roxieehlert.com/work/art-therapy-supervision monthly 0.5 2025-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/1633114505059-1JR3JZAFULIS8L1G5CNJ/IMG_7998.jpg Work - Art Therapy - Art therapy My approach to art therapy is embedded in a relational-cultural framework. This evolving feminist framework supports the belief that individual suffering takes place inside the larger context of social inequity, including systems of oppression like white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, ableism, heterosexism, and transphobia, among others. From a relational-cultural lens, we recognize that trauma often happens in the context of our relationships. We seek to use the therapeutic relationship itself as a space that can promote emotional repair and healing from these relational wounds, including suffering that emerges from the loss of a sense of safety or belonging. Therapy becomes a place to build trust, explore relationship patterns, look at personal boundaries, understand formative relationships, practice authenticity, engage conflict, and process fears. We use art making and creative self-expression in session to explore feelings, build self-esteem, deepen insight, and build loving relationships with ourselves. https://www.roxieehlert.com/work/new-portfolio-item-3 monthly 0.5 2025-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/0864c57b-14bb-4710-93fd-813d98c03d7e/IMG_8065.jpg Work - Education and Trainings I am a passionate educator committed to authenticity, collaboration, and fostering critical consciousness. I have experience teaching Art Therapy and Counseling graduate students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Southwestern College, as well as experience training licensed professionals. I have offered art-based, self-care- oriented or anti-oppression-focused trainings to social workers, lawyers, rape crisis workers, art therapists, and counselors in private practice. I am available to provide trainings for therapists, teachers, and leaders across diverse helping professions. My approach to teaching is creative, experiential, trauma-informed and grounded in integrating the wisdom of the body and of each learner’s lived experience. My love of leading therapy groups informs my ability to hold compassionate yet challenging classroom spaces where participants dive deep and emerge changed. Here are some reflections a few former students have offered about my teaching style: “I would say that my biggest takeaway from this course has been getting to learn from Roxie by example. She is able to ask hard questions and hold space for difficult emotions and processing, and creates a warm and welcoming environment in which we can learn difficult material and grow from it.” “Roxie’s ability to authentically present in the classroom space shows me what the future of academia can look like, especially in discussing such intense and real topics. Through a loving, openly communicative environment there was space for each individual to be themselves and grow.” “Roxie continues to amaze me with a seemingly effortless way of opening up an entire class. She really makes people feel heard, held, and unafraid to be honest.” https://www.roxieehlert.com/work/atr-supervision monthly 0.5 2025-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/a06bb5db-4d70-42f4-a836-b7cab0749b8d/77734176194__45DADB79-64B9-4DE5-93BA-3B9F76C5AC9A.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/1631990526310-RAJNLE8KC16LQS2O2ZTC/before%3Ainside.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/1631990960228-DSBV1HT9542EPWHRWNLU/IMG-8647.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/1631990390418-9LOUF29Y23RD5KM6906O/02_JPerkal.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/1633037986718-V0M4W129V794MGMJDPKM/DSC_0093.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/79839a5f-be45-470b-86fd-93f67a4b3b1c/we+need+each+other.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/1633031565057-G5EPIEC6CJC1SSMNIFCI/beaded+piece+from+FHIAB.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/1633116970487-JZ02F7LU5MN1S3PJEBA9/passageways.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6144fd20be22a672046e31ba/9f321798-b001-493b-bdbb-74457bfd8d96/IMG_5987.jpg