books and publications

Haley Fox, Ph.D.
Arts-Based Psychotherapy

Arts-Based Psychotherapy

Books and Publications

Follow Your Bliss!
    A practical, soul-centered guide
    to job-hunting and career-life planning
    (Universal Publishers, 2000)

Follow Your Bliss is a career-life planning manual of an entirely different sort, written by a traditionally trained career counselor who augments her skills with intensive training in the expressive arts therapies. Career-life planning, according to this author, begins with the heart and soul, rather than the intellect, and this book is filled with exercises that do just that. Unlike dry interest inventories, the exercises guide the reader through an easy-to-follow process of self- discovery and decision-making, which always begins with the state of the soul, and only later applies the intellect to understand the implications and decide on the best action to take. The book's format permits reader’s immediate involvement and participation, with built-in space for journaling and responding to questions. Individual job seekers, groups working together on job searches, and individuals in counseling situations, can use the clearly written material. The text is also suitable as a training tool for career counselors.

Minstrels of Soul:
Intermodal Expressive Therapy

Paolo J. Knill, Helen Nienhaus Barba and Margo N. Fuchs
1995 (Palmerston Press) and 2005 (EGS Press)

Under her former name (see "About My Name Change"), Haley
Fox collaborates with internationally acclaimed, Swiss born expressive therapist Paolo Knill and his partner, Margo Fuchs, in this must-read text for arts-based professionals around the globe, now in its second printing. Dr. Knill offers the inspiration behind the work, formulated from many years of experience, and Dr. Fox, a former student but now a peer in the field, presents the underlying theory and illustrative examples in an appropriately lyrical, imaginative and readable form. Original poetry by Margo Fuchs introduces the book's chapters.

"Minstrels of Soul has been received with enthusiasm by those who embrace the field of expressive therapy (a prediction supported by the endorsements on the books’ cover) ... There is little in print that presents the case for the integrated application of the arts therapies. There is even less that strives to ground this approach in aesthetic theory and the arts traditions." (Book review taken from The Arts in Psychotherapy, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp 275-276, 1996, Copyright @1996 Elsevier Science, Ltd.)

Articles by Dr. Fox

"Play Practice," Minnesota Association for Play Therapy member newsletter, April 2008.

Haley Fox, The Lily Pad, Well Cafe and Wellness Center, 2708 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407, 612-396-6905, drhaleyfox@haleyfox.com