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Our Practitioners

Jill Opalesky, Owner

MS, ATR-BC, ITR-CTT

Jill has over 25 years of experience and is dedicated to educating and treating trauma in her community as she has seen how often trauma changes and affects people long after the trauma has ended. Jill has also seen how difficult it is to get help for trauma or PTSD. She believes in the power of ITR and art therapy in the healing process. Jill is dedicated to helping people with trauma heal, educating people in the community about trauma, and promoting research on trauma. Jill believes that people can overcome their trauma and be healthy.

Selena Hicks

MA, ATR-BC, ITR-CTS

Selena is currently working as a Board-Certified Art Therapist in Richmond, Virginia. She is passionate about working with people of all ages and believes in the healing power of creative expression. She uses a client-centered, multicultural, and multimodal approach to treatment. She has worked with children, adolescents and adults in various community and clinical settings who have witnessed and/or experienced trauma. She deeply understands how trauma can impact one’s well-being and day-to-day life and believes that healing is possible.

Our practitioners utilize a multi-modal, culturally sensitive, client-centered and trauma-informed approach to treatment which often includes:

  • Art Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)
  • Instinctual Trauma Response (ITR)
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Attachment Theory