anh.tran

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Art Therapist

I am an Art Psychotherapist based in California, USA, helping you untangle the knots ofthe mind. I believe hope is a way of navigation, not a destination. My practice builds a compassionate bridge between Mind and Body, and reconnection with Earth, guiding you back to your inner compass.

Licensed Psychotherapist (LMFT)

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Registered Art Therapist (ATR)

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Read My Story

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Creative Expression

Art Therapy

You Don't Have to Be an Artist

Art brings the unconscious into the open — a way to hold feelings when words cannot reach them. You don't need to be good at art, only curious, to begin.

Mind & Body

Mindfulness

Slowing Down

Mindfulness is simply slowing our thoughts and bodies, cultivating awareness without self-judgment. Paired with art, it opens the way to mind–body integration.

Systems & Ancestry

Liberatory Approaches

The Weight We Inherit

Systems of oppression trickle down into individual and community lives. This work names that weight, while drawing on the ancestral wisdom already within you.

Your Own Words

Humanistic Approaches

Re-Authoring

Humanistic and narrative approaches support you in reclaiming the story of your own life, and in telling it in your own words — not the ones handed to you.

How I Show Up

Strength-Based

Empathy and Respect

Meeting each client with empathy and respect, without judgment, while highlighting their own strengths through the journey of healing.

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Critical Thinking

The Anti-Aesthetic

Essays on postmodern culture and the politics of art.

Hal Foster

Educational

It Didn't Start With You

How inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle.

Mark Wolynn

Crisis Support

BlackLine

Peer support, counseling and advocacy for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ individuals. Call 800-604-5841.

BlackLine

Educational

Rest Is Resistance

Freeing yourself from grind culture and reclaiming your life.

Tricia Hersey

Critical Thinking

The Archaeology of Knowledge

On how knowledge, discourse and power are constructed.

Michel Foucault

Educational

Radical Ecopsychology

Psychology in the service of life, and our relationship with the living world.

Andy Fisher

All Resources

Even the thickest fog lifts with a single light

You don't have to navigate the forest alone. Let’s find the rhythm of your heart together.

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clinical supervision

Supervision for fellow clinicians

I offer individual or triadic (up to three participants) clinical supervision / consultation for Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists based in California, as well as Registered Art Therapists worldwide. Sessions are offered on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, and fees are negotiable.

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Aleyna Korkmaz, @aley.nailartstudio
Body Artist, Istanbul, Turkiye

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“Art no longer lives only in galleries, but on the streets, on social media, even on people's bodies”

Dogukan Tuna @tunart_tattoo
Tattoo Artist, Istanbul, Turkiye

“Art no longer lives only in galleries, but on the streets, on social media, even on people's bodies”

Aleyna Korkmaz, @aley.nailartstudio
Body Artist, Istanbul, Turkiye

Close-up of a woman with earrings looking to the side, with a play button overlay.

“Art no longer lives only in galleries, but on the streets, on social media, even on people's bodies”

Aleyna Korkmaz, @aley.nailartstudio
Body Artist, Istanbul, Turkiye

“Art no longer lives only in galleries, but on the streets, on social media, even on people's bodies”

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Art & Expression

The Power of Live Music

Something measurable happens to our brains in a room full of live music that recordings cannot reproduce. On neural phase-locking, community choirs, and music as social bonding.

Reflections

Raising Our Children

After nineteen years with children and families, the one book I recommend most is The Whole Brain Child. The upstairs and downstairs brain, and practical ways to connect before you redirect.

Decolonial Healing

Systems Worsen Our Mental Health

Anxiety under systemic racism is not irrational — it is survival. How capitalism and colonialism shape who we believe we are, and why “What do you do?” is never a neutral question.

Earth & Somatics

Self-Suppression is Making Us Sick

When we override what our bodies are telling us, the cost shows up physically. On Gabor Maté's work, autoimmune illness, and what happens when we stop speaking up for our own needs.

Reclaiming Our Stories

Layers of Identity

Our identities are constructed, discovered, revealed — and sometimes forced upon us. Moving through five layers, from the individual to the universal, and what the left and right brain each contribute.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Art Therapist