Sharon Strouse,
MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT
Sharon Strouse, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT is a board-certified and licensed clinical professional art therapist and Associate Director for the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition. Her art therapy private practice, national presentations, trainings and practitioner supervision/ mentoring focus on traumatic loss, specifically with parents who have lost a child, suicide bereavement, and military family loss. The theoretical foundations of her group and individual art therapy work are grounded in meaning reconstruction, attachment informed grief therapy, continuing bonds with the deceased and restorative retelling. She is author of Artful Grief: A Diary of Healing, (artfulgrief.com) written twelve years after the suicide of her seventeen-year-old daughter, as well as many articles and chapters. She is co-founder of The Kristin Rita Strouse Foundation (krsf.com) a non-profit dedicated to supporting programs that increase awareness of mental health through education and the arts..
She is a grief and bereavement specialist and workshop presenter for:
- Portland Institute for Loss and Transition
- Johns Hopkins Medicine: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Columbia University: School of Social Work
- The American Art Therapy Association
- The Expressive Therapies Summit
- The Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC)
- The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
- The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
- The Compassionate Friends (TCF)
- The American Association of Suicidology (AAS)
- Gilchrist Cares: Social Work Training Institute