LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR SUPERVISOR
Michelle Renfrow, MA, LPC-S, Art Life Coach in the Houston/Sugar Land area
Welcome to your LPC- Associate experience, it’s going to exciting! Supervision can be done virtually or in person once a week as well as group sessions. If three LPC-Associates get together and begin the journey together there is a group discount for individual and group sessions!
Additionally, in the near future rental of a play therapy room for use with your clients will be available! It’s an amazing space to work with children of all ages and adults too! It is fully loaded with all the materials needed for art and play therapy activities. My office is located in the Missouri City area.
Vision:
Provide high quality therapy services to clients going through difficult times with unconditional positive regard, caring and compassion. The goal with LPC Associates is to teach, counsel and consult with them throughout their internship experience to aid them in becoming the best counselors they can become.
an artist, educator and licensed professional counselor supervisor with 20+ years experience!
Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor
Certified Art Therapist
Art, Music & Play Based Therapy Techniques
Youth Engagement Director
Jewish Educator
Creative Experiences Host
Former School Counselor
Strengths and Special Talents:
- A keen ability to show genuine empathy, warmth, and provide a safe place for trust and unconditional positive regard.
- The use humor and optimism in developing common factors that influence the supervisory relationship.
- Michelle prides herself in a relationship that is unaltered by transference or countertransference.
- Belief that the installation of hope and the safe creation of expectations within any relationship is critical.
- Strongly believe in self awareness and self reflection for herself as well as clients and supervisees.
- Identify that initially the acquisition of knowledge and skill is paramount to the supervisee experience for growth and learning.
- A unique ability to support my supervisee in assessing their needs and providing feedback to them in effective and supportive ways.
Unique About Michelle as a Supervisor or Mentor:
- A strong skill set in analyzing clients needs and providing reflection and insights to support them in achieving their goals.
- A tremendous amount of empathy for clients and their experiences, and the ability to connect with them in a significantly deep way.
- A knack for quickly connecting with others that gives them a sense of peace and calm that enables the work to be accomplished successfully.
- Belief this experience is the same with supervisees and supervisors.
- Belief that unconditional positive regard is key in all relationships.
- Extensive expereince using art and play with clients and love to share the tools of the trade with supervisees.
- Belief that personal connection is a way of working through our problems together.
- A certain level of self disclosure provides support, empathy and normalization for many during a clinical relationship and will share anecdotal stories or memories that can be normalizing and creates deeper connections.
What Michelle Loves Most About This Work:
Seeing people heal!
“I tend to tell people that I meet someone in need, we work together to take apart their problems and put them back together in a different way that works for them. I love my work and I have so much gratitude when I see success with my clients and remember that I had a part in helping them through a difficult time.”
–Michelle Renfrow
Teacher & Youth Engagement Director
Michelle is much more than just a licensed professional counselor, Michelle LOVES art! Her love has spilled over into almost every area of her life.
Michelle’s creativity has led her to write successful and entertaining Purim Spiels, family education programs with themes such as body imagery, depression, and mental health, sex education, Jewish law vs. the laws of our country, and many others.
Her 20 years of background in these areas has given her the ability to take a topic and create an entire program around the theme but delivered in engaging and fun ways.
She has worked in Jewish education and the clinical psychology field, sometimes merging the two. Michelle’s background in art offered multiple training opportunities to work with a vast array of clients in unique settings in a more approachable way.
She has worked as a therapist in a juvenile detention center and a residential treatment center, been a supervisor of a crisis drop-in center, therapist for a pregnant and parenting teen center, and a therapist for several day treatment facilities.
Michelle’s taken training in art therapy and play therapy. She blends it with extensive experience and training in these areas to deliver the most comprehensive and individualized care to her clients.
Judaically, Michelle has worked as a Hebrew school teacher, a director of Pre k-7th grade Hebrew school for a major synagogue in Houston, full-time Youth Engagement Director, Ozrim (TA) supervisor, a preschool Judaic director, teacher supervisor and much, much more!
Her ability to understand her target population and merge it with the desired learning materials makes her a valuable asset to any group that brings her to the present. She has created fun and engaging opportunities to teach others her craft. She is a compassionate, and nurturing soul who desires to make each person’s art experience all it can be!
Team Building
Team out of a rut? Get ’em together for fun! Creativity enhances your bottom line!
Online Classes
Show up in your PJ’s or send your kid in theirs! Learn a new craft and We supply all you need!
Shop My Art
It’s an honor to share my art on etsy and I hope you enjoy shopping my store.
Creative Services
Work with our team to design an awesome party activity just for you! We offer a diverse selection!
Get On My List For Updates & Event Info!
Michelle offers in-person camps and art experiences, she also hosts live art events and can bring an art experience to your location. Her blogs give you the inside tips and fun stories of being creative every day with your kids, but also just for you!
Every Family Needs Creativity!
Let’s get creative together, relieve stress, and ignite the imagination! Enjoy creativity with your kids or on your own! In-person, online or with wine!