The Creative Complement Company
The intersection of self-reflection, personal growth, and counselor development.
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CE Courses
Earn NBCC CE credit while deepening your knowledge and skills through engaging, practical, and accessible training. These courses are designed for professional counselors.
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Consultation
This service focuses on helping mental health professionals, counselor educators and counseling students look at cases, educational planning, or professional development from a creative perspective.
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Custom Trainings
Following a consultation, I will create a customized training tailored to your specific goals and needs, delivering a program that meets your objectives. If needed, the training can also be made eligible for CE credits.
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Creative Products
Discover unique artwork designed to inspire and enhance your space. Perfect for homes, offices, or therapy settings, these expressive pieces bring creativity and meaning to any environment.
The Creative Complement Company has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7708. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Creative Complement Company is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs
How did we get our name?
The word complement, means to make something better, more complete. This company is all about adding creativity to your personal or professional life to enhance, or complement, your life.
Defining Creativity:
The term creativity is overused and often ambiguously defined. While I encourage each individual to define this term for themselves, I also want to encourage considering the vastness of what creativity encompasses. Through a significant review of the literature, I offer this concise and comprehensive definition of creativity, which accounts for the two main perspectives of creativity.
Creativity is the ability, whether general or specific to a domain, to generate novel and functional ideas that foster growth and drive meaningful transformation.
Our mission.
The Creative Complement Company's mission is to teach, research, connect, and facilitate professional counselor development through creativity. We are dedicated to advancing creativity in the personal and professional lives of mental health counselors and other helping professionals.
Our approach.
To achieve our mission, we implement creative approaches, backed by evidence-based research and theory. We teach to and emphasize all forms of creativity, which reach far beyond expressive arts.
Perspective
Embracing diverse viewpoints to gain a broader understanding of situations, encouraging open-mindedness, unconditional positive regard, and increased empathy.
Reflective
Promoting the practice of introspection and self-awareness, fostering a deeper understanding of one’s internal and external influences.
Transformative
Facilitating significant positive change, growth, and evolution in individual and professional lives leading to enhanced well-bring and fulfillment.
Our focus.
Education & Training
We believe in the transformative power of creative learning. Through dynamic, innovative approaches, we empower professionals to expand their knowledge and skills, teaching both creativity itself and creative methods for professional growth.
Professional Development
We guide helping professionals and individuals in discovering and nurturing their unique creative potential. Our specialized consultation focuses on integrating innovation into mental health counseling, therapy, education, and beyond, helping you transform both personal and professional practices.
Research
We advance the understanding of creativity in mental health and counselor education through rigorous research. Our commitment to evidence-based exploration helps bridge the gap between creative theory and practical application in helping professions.
Connection
We foster meaningful professional relationships and self-discovery through creative engagement. Understanding that growth happens in community, we emphasize the importance of connection in developing and implementing creative approaches to helping professions.
Creative Products
We offer thoughtfully crafted resources and artwork that support professional development or personal reflection. Each creation serves as a tool for growth, learning, and transformation in both personal and professional contexts.
Hi, I’m Bri.
As the founder and training director of the Creative Complement Company, I design, organize and lead the educational content offered by our organization.
About Dr. Bri
Dr. Bri brings a unique perspective to her work with a passion for creativity and professional development. With a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision, she has received advanced training in counseling, counselor education, and supervision, cultivating specialty interests in each of these areas. Her work is grounded in creative theory and informed by counseling theory, offering a distinctive approach to consultation, coaching, and professional growth.
With early studies in studio art and psychology, Dr. Bri was inspired by the powerful intersection of the creative process and mental health. This foundation led her to explore how creativity can be meaningfully integrated into counseling practices. Over time, this interest expanded to include how creativity can be used to educate and train counseling students, as well as to support counseling professionals in supervision through innovative and creative approaches.
Clinically, Dr. Bri has developed a comprehensive theoretical framework that systematically draws from a variety of established theories while integrating creativity theory, neuroscience, and other distinct yet seamlessly integrable therapies. She continues develops and refines her own modality, which informs her clinical practice, research, and teaching