Dedicated to a compassionate, deep, symbolically oriented approach, I have an integrative approach to therapy and view it as a spiritual process.
With over 40 years experience as a therapist, I have worked with many kinds of suffering such as bereavement, mood and eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and trauma. I work with ages 17 and up.
As an expressive psychoanalyst I have a variety of modalities at my disposal:
psychoanalysis; dream work, art therapy, mindfulness based cognitive techniques, hypnosis
and visualization, sand tray, yoga, and familiarity with Eastern and Western mystical
traditions. As a former dancer, I bring sensitivity to body based states to our process as
well.
Mainly, we talk; I listen deeply, and use these techniques in the service of you in your
quest to evolve and heal.
I have had the honor to teach and lecture all over the world.
For 27 years (1995-2022) I taught in graduate, undergraduate, and postgraduate art therapy
programs at Pratt Institute of Design, the New School for Social Research, and the School of
Visual Arts.
ART, COSMOS AND PSYCHE
A lecture by Claudia Bader May 26, 2026. 7-9 PM EST ONLINE AND IN PERSON
BIG APPLE ASTROLOGY MEETUP
You can see someone’s astrology and psychology in their artwork. The psyche and the astrological charts come out in an art work’s symbols, and in what themes/ideas/archetypes compel an artist. It also shows formally in composition, line, form, color, materials, scale and texture.
As a professor in 3 art therapy clinical programs teaching art interpretation for 26 years, Clauda Bader has long researched the relationship between psychodynamics, astrology and artwork. She can look at someone’s artwork and detect what part of the astrological chart the psyche wishes to bring out and further develop.
After exploring how the psyche communicates through art, she will trace the intercorrelations and triangulations between the artistic, the psychological and the astrological. It doesn’t matter if the person is a professional artist or not, the psyche speaks through imagery we latch on to, and the astrological chart shapes any artwork. Come learn the results of an unexpected art and astrology experiment with 100 people who did not know even their Western astrological signs. Discover a case study of an artist whose art shows her transformation as she healed and how this was reflected in her astrology.
Richly illustrated with examples of artists (famous and not) on art elements, psychology, and astrology, we will also look at the specific art characteristics of the signs and planets to see the correspondence between psyche, chart, and artwork.
Join us for an illuminating evening of creative, deep, celestial interconnections.
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