About The Wellness COllective
The Wellness Collective was founded on a simple premise: that the best professional training doesn't just give you information it gives you an experience.
Experiential learning means you don't just hear about grief, shame, or somatic awareness. You move through it. You make something. You sit in a circle with other practitioners and feel what your clients feel. That's the difference between knowing a concept and being able to hold it with someone else.
Our workshops draw on creative arts therapy, somatic awareness, and Gestalt and relational approaches to create learning environments that are rigorous, embodied, and genuinely useful — in the room, with real clients, in the world as it actually is right now.
All workshops are accredited to meet the continuing education (CE) requirements for Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Psychoanalysts, and Creative Arts Therapists in New York State.
About Jennifer Byxbee, ATR-BC, LCAT, CGT
Jennifer Byxbee is a licensed creative arts therapist, Gestalt therapist, and somatic practitioner based in New York City. She is the founder of both the Wellness Collective and Creative Arts Psychotherapy NYC, where she works with individuals navigating trauma, grief, identity, and the complexity of being human.
Her workshops bring together her clinical training, her background in somatic therapy and expressive arts, and her commitment to education that goes beyond the didactic. Wellness Collective is for clinicians who know that the best learning doesn't just inform you. It moves you.
Wellness Collective Contributors
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Jordan Dann LP
Jordan Dann is a licensed psychoanalyst and educator in New York City with advanced training in Gestalt therapy, Somatic Experiencing, and Imago Relationship therapy. She is a faculty member at the Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy and the author of Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma. Her work focuses on trauma-informed care, couples therapy, and the mind-body connection.
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Asilia Franklin-Phipps, PhD
Asilia Franklin-Phipps is an Associate Professor in Educational Studies at SUNY New Paltz, with affiliate appointments in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Art. An interdisciplinary scholar and artist, her work spans race, gender, affect, and visual culture. She brings a sociopolitical lens to collective and diasporic grief that grounds her facilitation in the cultural and political moment we are all living through.
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Clara Gomez, ATR, LCAT
Clara is a psychotherapist and creative arts therapist who integrates insight, creativity, and body-based practices into her work with individuals of all ages. Drawing from psychodynamic, attachment-based, and somatic approaches, she helps clients reconnect with their authentic selves and foster deeper intimacy in their relationships and lives.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to create learning experiences that connect practitioners to themselves, to each other, and to approaches that actually work.