Hope Boeve, LCAT, ATR-BC

Hope Boeve is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Board-Certified Registered Art Therapist. Specializing in working with adolescents, young adults and families, Hope is characterized by her warmth, openness, and presence.

A trained perinatal mental health provider, Hope welcomes new or prospective parents who are adjusting to–or planning for–pregnancy and parenthood. A parent herself, Hope is keenly familiar with the profound changes in identity, perspective and priorities that occur when one becomes a parent, and the feeling of overwhelm that can accompany the search to acquire new skills while reckoning with our own origin stories. She is passionate about walking her fellow caregivers through that complex and meaningful process.

Hope also has a wealth of experience in supporting parents of young people who are experiencing learning challenges and co-occurring mental health concerns, such as anxiety and depression. Her approach takes into account that our current struggles are often related to our past lived experiences, while simultaneously helping clients root themselves in the here and now. She believes conflict is often borne of disconnection and miscommunication and seeks to partner with her clients to identify and remove the impediments to their mutually desired connection.

Utilizing an integrated approach, including psychodynamic theory, cognitive behavioral theory, and the creation of art, Hope facilitates an exploration of her clients’ inner worlds and relationships. Hope invites her clients to come to sessions exactly as they are and strives to work with them to define and secure what they most want and need.

Hope has always found art to be an invaluable tool, giving space to things that words aren’t adequate to address. Her clients have reflected that creating therapeutic art helps them see themselves anew, facilitating positive shifts in their daily lives. She loves helping her clients dive into the artistic process, letting go of outcome for the benefit of a more authentic self-expression. Most of her clients do not have a background in art, and many have found it revolutionary to make visible what is felt.

Hope holds a master's degree in education from the University of Connecticut's Neag School of Education and a master’s degree in art therapy from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven. Prior to pursuing a degree in therapy, Hope taught high school English for several years in NYC, worked as an executive functioning coach, supervised art therapists in training, and instructed as a guest lecturer in the Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling program at Albertus Magnus College.

Hope has experience in several clinical settings, including a Veterans Affairs Medical Center, group home for adolescents, residential treatment center for children, and adolescent juvenile justice residential care. She is an author published in the Journal for the Education of the Gifted and The Arts in Psychotherapy. Hope currently works with Dwellness, providing virtual therapy to individuals, couples, and families.

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