Mission Statement
Third Hand Healing (THH) was founded to offer mental health interventions and identity affirming support as a way to heal individuals and communities.
THH utilizes Art Therapy and multi-modal services that support those who need us most.
THH allows clients confidence to emerge by exploring personal difficulties through various creative modalities.
THH serves everyone, but we have a priority audience of our own global majority communities.
THH safely encourages healing and self-expression without judgment or bias.
Amina Shaw-Moss
LCAT, ATR-BC
Founder
Amina has been implementing Visual Art Psychotherapy for eight years and working professionally since 2016. Her passion for helping others led to the founding of Third Hand Healing. She provides services individuals, couples, and adolescents (ages 11–17), offering support to those experiencing emotional dysregulation, heightened sensitivity, or feelings of numbness and disconnection. Her approach helps clients become more attuned to their internal world, address trauma and deepen their connections with others.
Her mission is focused on helping people understand the importance of mental health. By using trauma informed intervention,EMDR,Somatic practices, art therapy and CBT, Amina empowers her clients to explore their experiences. Her passions are geared towards visual art & design, this approach influenced her therapeutic practice.
Currently she practices in Brooklyn, NY. She completed her Masters in Professional Studies at PRATT Institute. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Art Therapy with a minor in Fine Arts and Psychology at Lesley University, in MA. She is a nationally registered and board certified Art Psychotherapist and is licensed in the state of New York. Amina is also a trained EMDR practitioner.
Exp.2031
ATCB Board Certified
Exp.2027
Registered Art Therapist
“...activate seeds of creation by making choices about the results you want to create.” - Robert Fritz
Third Hand Healing Collective
We are a collective of certified, culturally-informed therapists and healing practitioners. Utilizing decades of experience to help our diverse clientele gain insight. Helping people develop tools to support mental, emotional and physical health. We work with both corporate and community clientele.
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I work with adults whose aim is to heal from the psychological and emotional effects of personal & generational traumas, minority stress, and resolve non-monogamous relationship and LGBTQIA related issues. I use an integration of treatment models that are trauma informed, solution focused and relational with use of mindfulness techniques for self-regulation and stress reduction. I use a variation of treatment models to engage clients in individually specialized treatment plans that guide them in their journey towards emotional balance and well being. My style is to collaborate with clients to build a safe therapeutic experience that is inclusive, identity affirming and validating of their need for healing and emotional wellness.
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Hande is a writer and breathwork guide living between Istanbul and New York. With the experience she gained in the field of culture and arts over the years, she blends breathing exercises with art activities such as collaging, drawing, dancing, and writing. Her passion is helping people tap into their innate resources and feel more free and creative in any way they can.
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Karina P. Diaz, LCAT, LPAT,ATR, IFS is currently a director at a crisis triage center for mental health and substance misuse crisis. Clinically, throughout her 20 yearlong career in NYC, she has worked with infants, children, youth and their families. As well, for the last 15 years she has been in private practice in Manhattan, currently via telehealth.
In her private practice, she integrates mindfulness, trauma-informed, family therapy with art interventions to support healing. For the last 17 years, she has worked, clinically and administratively in child well-fare settings such as preventive programs, domestic violence and human traffic agencies as well as mental health clinics working with infants, children/ youth and adults. She has worked extensively with immigrant families. As a bi-cultural, multi-lingual therapist, having lived and worked in Mexico with youth and families affected by violence and isolation she is keenly interested in culturally sensitive interventions. Ms. Diaz has led workshops and presented at multiple conferences in the United States and abroad.
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My name is Steven Rousseau, born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised by Haitian parents. I’m a certified personal trainer and a yoga instructor since 2006. My yoga practice specializes in Ancient Egyptian methods of yoga, as well as holistic, mental and spiritual health. I’ve worked with multiple celebrity clients, Ivy League college athletes, children, senior citizens and pre/post natal clients. My goal as a practitioner of wellness is to impact those I come across in a healing way.
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Naomi is a Brooklyn based creative art therapist, clinical supervisor and visual artist . She has been actively involved in community based art therapy work in educational and youth based programs since 2006. After a long stint as the director in an adolescent residential program, Naomi is now working in private practice and in collaboration with other educators, clinicians and artists to increase access and expand impact through community engagement.
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THH Administrative Team
Macarena Rufin-Womack MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT
CEO & Clinical Supervisor
Macarena Rufin-Womack is a Latina board-certified and licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Prior to co-developing Third Hand Healing, she worked for many years with marginalized children and families in Brooklyn to promote well-being, community and connection. She is also the founder of Love In The Raw, an art therapy practice that specializes in working with adult womxn and the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma and prenatal/postpartum mental health. Macarena is passionate about art therapy and believes that it can be an incredibly powerful means to enhance ones healing journey. Her primary goal as an art therapist is to promote and cultivate collective liberation; from the constraints of capitalist conditioning, systemic oppression and traumatic experiences. She strives to continue making a meaningful impact on the individuals and organizations that she connects with.
Emery Hurst Mikel MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, LCPAT
Community Partner & Mentor
Emery Hurst Mikel is a Contemplative Psychotherapist, Board Certified and Licensed Art Therapist, Mindfulness & Meditation Mentor. Emery works primarily with women who want to build confidence and empower themselves in everyday life. Her goal is to create a safe space for people from all backgrounds and walks of life to find support when they need it. Going to therapy should be as routine as going to the doctor to take care of your physical health. Emery is the owner and director of Water & Stone, A Creative Arts Therapy PLLC Private Practice .