About this live event

Learning Objectives

• Learners will practice creatively envisioning different possibilities for their future work
• Learners will analyze systemic, financial, and personal challenges and opportunities when starting a private practice
• Learners will identify 2-3 ethical considerations when starting a private practice

Agenda

Live event Instructor(s)

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  Roxie Rose Ehlert, LPCC, LCPC, ATR-BC

  Art Therapist

  Roxie Rose Ehlert is a Board-Certified art therapist and art therapy educator based on Tiwa land in Albuquerque, NM. Her private practice, Roxie Rose Art Therapy, provides art therapy supervision, consultation, and mentorship, continuing education trainings, support groups, and community-oriented, art-based healing workshops and retreats. Roxie has been an adjunct professor in the art therapy and counseling programs at Southwestern College since 2019, and taught in the art therapy graduate program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago prior to that. Through the framework of relational feminist, anti-oppressive education, Roxie is passionate about supporting early-career mental health providers to advance their clinical skills, develop greater professional confidence, and critically analyze the systems they work in. She facilitates close-knit, dynamic, and meaningful group supervision communities where therapists tend to their ongoing learning/unlearning, professional wellness, and creative thriving as they support each other in exploring the messy and complex questions this work can evoke.

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  Molly Adler, LCSW, CST

  Director, Sex Therapy New Mexico

  Molly is an AASECT certified Sex Therapist, Clinical Social Worker, Sex Educator and Trainer. Her practice Sex Therapy New Mexico is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Tiwa land. She works with a lot of clients who are LGBTQ2S+, BIPOC, anti-racist, activists, polyamorous, and/or kink identified. Her approach is compassionate, grounded, pleasure-centered, light-hearted & social justice oriented. She enjoys the micro-level therapeutic work, as well as working towards structural change by offering training for healthcare providers and institutions who want to be more inclusive of sexual and gender diversity in their work. Previously she co-founded and co-directed Self Serve Sexuality Resource Center, New Mexico’s first and only sex-positive, health- and education-focused adult shop and resource center for its first eight years.

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  Magdalena V. Karlick, M.A., Ph.D., SEP, ATR-BC, LPCC

  Magdalena V. Karlick, PhD, SEP, ATR-BC, LPCC (she/her) is an artist, board-certified Art Therapist in the United States, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, educator, arts-based researcher, with a doctorate in Expressive Arts. Magdalena is the owner of Our Imaginal World, a business that provides individual and group therapy, arts and somatic based supervision, post graduate education, and community health consultation for organizations. She has been an educator in the Art Therapy, Expressive Arts, and Counseling fields since 2012, focusing on cultural humility, somatic awareness, ethics, group dynamics, and therapeutic arts techniques. As a supervisor, she focuses on power dynamics, personal bias, culturally sensitive ethical practice, self-care, community care, and nervous system regulation. 

  Magdalena is the Art Director for Tomorrow’s Women, working with Palestinian and Israeli femme-identifying youth in an international summer camp intensive. She is also a Vital Spaces studio artist in Santa Fe. Magdalena’s most recent publications include Queering Multiple Relationships in Small Communities in Queer World-Making in Art Therapy Theory and Praxis (Van Den Berg, 2026), and Zines as Creative Public Advocacy in Art Therapy in Comics, Zines, and Graphic Novels in Art Therapy: Illustrating Stories (Carlton, 2026).

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  Vanya Garabedian, LCSW

  Vanya Garabedian, LCSW is the founder and owner of Intentional Path Counseling LLC. She is passionate about supporting and promoting learning, which is clearly demonstrated in the workshops she conducts. She cultivates an atmosphere that captures participants' attention and is both engaging and informative. As a licensed clinical social worker, she is a Brainspotting consultant and therapist, provides education and training for workplaces, and mentors clinicians. She brings over two decades of experience in the Mental and Behavioral Health field, working with diverse populations.