NExT Foundation
Nebraska Expressive Arts Therapy Foundation
You can make a positive impact on mental health in our community!
Founders
Betsy Funk
LCSW LIMHP MPA REAT
Executive Director
Board President
betsy.funk.lcsw@gmail.com
402-250-7995
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As a facilitator, instructor, and administrator at NExT Foundation, I have a tremendous respect for the field of Expressive Arts and immense gratitude to be able to share it with others. I stand in awe every day of the capacity of this work to have a profound and positive impact on our community. As a board member of IEATA, I am fully dedicated to the field both locally and nationally.
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Jea Theis
​MSW LCSW LIMHP REAT in process
Director of Programming
Info@jtheistherapy.com
531-444-9700
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I am inspired to share the healing power of art with others in our community, with a goal of helping people tend to their own primary and secondary trauma exposure so that they can stay healthy and live their very best lives. I use expressive arts with my clients on a daily basis, incorporating mindfulness, meditation, visual journals, collage, music, movement and painting, and also enjoy incorporating Expressive Arts with other Evidence-based modalities for a cohesive therapeutic approach.
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Natalie Hogge
MA LIMHP REAT
Creative Director
soulspeakart@yahoo.com
402-302-1207
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Natalie Hogge, has a playful, but reverent approach to mental health. She works from a contemplative, trauma-informed, and creative foundation within the field. Creativity is the vessel both in private practice, and in envisioning NExT. Here, we learn from each other, through a reverence for the complexity and depth of each individual's lived experience. It could be perceived that both individual and collective wounds heal relationally. A third space built on the foundation of seeking understanding and tolerance moves me, and this is what I witness and work toward in this shared space.
Meet our board members
Deb Anderson
Rodney Jewell
Marcus Ricks
Jackie Lorenson
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Amy Morris