Therapeutic writing coaching and poetry therapy training
Writethought is a practice built on a simple idea: the act of writing can show you what you actually think. Not what you meant to think, or what you tell people you think. I use reflective and expressive writing to help individuals find their footing, and to train the professionals who want to bring this work to others.
Where would you like to start?
For yourself
One-on-one coaching using writing as a tool for self-reflection, meaning-making, and personal change. For people in transition, recovering from burnout, or wanting to understand their own patterns.
Explore coachingFor your practice
A nine-month, cohort-based certification in therapeutic writing and poetry therapy. For clinicians, educators, coaches, and caregivers who want to bring expressive writing into their professional work.
Explore the trainingFor your organization
Workshops, consultation, and reflective practice groups on burnout prevention, vicarious trauma, and resilience. For healthcare systems, schools, nonprofits, and leadership teams.
Explore consultingWriting as a way of thinking, not just a record of it
Therapeutic writing is the intentional use of writing for reflection, self-exploration, and meaning-making. It draws on journal therapy, poetry therapy, positive psychology, and several decades of research into expressive writing. The tools are practical: structured prompts, guided exercises, and reflection that turns a private page into something you can actually use.
It is not journaling in the diary sense, and it is not psychotherapy. It sits in between, and it is unusually good at reaching the things that talking around a subject tends to miss.
A prompt to begin
Write about a moment this week you have not told anyone about.
Our thoughts shape our destiny. But what is shaping our thoughts?
Before this work, I had a corporate career
An ethical crossroads ended it. I went back to school, became a clinical social worker, and spent the next twenty-five years learning how writing changes what people are able to see about themselves. Working on the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic taught me something specific about what caregiving costs the people who do it, and that is a large part of why Writethought exists.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Certified Journal Therapist and Certified Poetry Therapist, and a Certified Mentor through the International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy.
Certification in Poetry Therapy Foundations
A nine-month cohort. Fifty sessions. Two hundred hours of instruction and forty hours of peer-group experiential learning, taught trauma-informed throughout. It is the first step toward certification through the IFBPT, and it is designed for professionals who intend to use this work with real people.
- Duration
- 9 months
- Sessions
- 50
- Didactic hours
- 200
- Investment
- $8,000
See the IFBPT training guide See the full program
Next cohort: pulled from the Cohorts collection
Pause. Reflect.
Write. Evolve.
Writing is more than self-expression. It is a way into insight, growth, and change that most of us never use on purpose.