Lisa Kellogg, MA, Artist, Success Coach, Counselor, Facilitator & Play Advocate/Practitioner is passionate about getting individuals, organizations and communities to amplify and improve the use of their creativity.

She excels at helping people release blocks in order to tap their imagination, find their inner innovator and connect to their most important values and vision as they build the confidence to breakthrough to new levels of success and fulfillment.

Lisa received a BFA in Printmaking from SUNY Purchase in 1986 and spent her twenties working in the Arts before earning a MA in Counseling/Psychology from Goddard College in 1997. With this change of direction, she spent 5 1/2 years providing crisis intervention family counseling through a non-profit agency in Ulster County, NY before moving on to complete the core coach training through The Coaches Training Institute and opening a private practice in 2001.

Lisa uses an unconventional approach to facilitating change that includes a synthesis of several client centered, strength based models. She has trained in; Solution Focused, Narrative, Expressive Arts, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy as well as Co-Active Coach Training from the Coaches Training Institute and other positive psychology models of change.

In 2003 Lisa participated in a training conference, Managing a Future Search and was also on the town of Rosendale's Smarter Land Use Committee that worked with Karl Kehde to learn his collaborative land planning process; both effective models for working with community and organizational groups to find common ground solutions. These fostered her continued interest in creative process as she experienced their power to generate collective creativity. 2003 also marked the beginning of Lisa's study of theater improvisation and fascination with play.

In additions to Lisa’s training and academic work, she also draws on her experience as an artist, gardener, production manager, program director, family, and college counselor to enhance her work with clients.

Lisa has been involved in her community working with Women's Studio Workshop a Not-for-Profit Art Center, serving on Rosendale's Smarter Land Use and Comprehensive Planning Committee. She has been a facilitator for America Speaks and is a member of the Future Search Network, the National Institute for Play, the Women's Studio Workshop, and the Women's Caucus for the Arts, the Ulster/Dutchess County Counsel for the Arts, The Rondout Valley Business Association and Qajaq USA.

Lisa grew up on a dairy farm in VT and currently lives in the New York Hudson Valley with her kayaking playmate and partner Ed.

To read what people say about Lisa go to her client feedback.