Lantie Tom, LCAT
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist
my philosophy
As someone who uses techniques that are more natural and less aggressive than popularized methods, my high success rate is evidence that healing the way nature intended is less painful and more efficient than many popularized methods.
I believe therapy should honor your inner wisdom and your innate ability to heal and grow. I don't believe in using methods that require you to trust me more than you trust yourself.
I believe therapy should honor your autonomy. I don't believe in using methods that feel like the therapist is doing it to you. I prefer to work in such a way that helps you do the work within yourself.
I don't believe therapists can give power to their clients or that clients should rely on their therapist to feel stronger. I believe real power comes from within yourself. So I intentionally implement methods that support clients in finding their strength and maintaining their boundaries throughout their process.
my performance
You deserve to know you're in capable hands.
Throughout my graduate training, I remained at the top of my class in clinical courses and achieved breakthroughs with complex clients as early as my first internship. After demonstrating advanced insights and skills in private practice, I began supervising other mental health professionals from the undergraduate level to the doctorate level.
From the beginning of my career, colleagues and mentors have described me as a particularly well-rounded therapist - someone who asks the bigger questions and finds the deeper answers.
Credentials
Education & Training
Modalities
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT)
New York License - 002593
Internal Family Systems Online Circle - 2023
Guided Drawing®
Certification - 2023
Havening Therapy®
Certification - 2022
Kint Institute
Certification - 2020
New York University
Master of Arts, Drama Therapy - 2019
Master of Arts, Educational Theatre - 2012
Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting
Certification - 2010
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics - 2010
Psychodynamic Therapy
Internal Family Systems informed Therapy (IFS)
Art Therapy and Guided Drawing®
Drama Therapy and Psychodrama
Play Therapy
Havening Techniques®
Cognitive Behavioral informed Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior informed Therapy (DBT)
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
