Halligan Creative Arts Therapy, PLLC

02/17/2026

Join Teaching Artist ROC - Gil Merritt as he teaches us how to make heroes out of chenille pipe cleaners!

02/13/2026

02/11/2026

Your 2026 CE calendar just got an upgrade! 🌟

Laugh a little. Play a little. Get a little shadowy.

Learn more and register at www.halliganarts.com/continuing-education

02/10/2026

Check out all of our upcoming CE workshops!

2/27: Use code: LAUGHHCAT for $10 off!

All other trainings, you can use code EARLYBIRD for $10 off at this time!

You can view the full collection at:

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/continuing-education-workshops-4475343?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

02/06/2026

A wonderful community cause! Laughing Gull Chocolates

The menstrual products collection continues!

🔴 Now through 2/14, we are collecting pads, liners, and tampons. We’re assembling 50 period kits to give away to community members. To make it happen, we need:

1500 pads
500 tampons
500 liners

Thanks to several super (pun intended) generous donations, we are missing just a few tampons and about 25 liners. ❗️ The biggest need we still have to fill is pads.

🔴 A person will use ~ 4 tampons/pads/liners per day for approximately 5 days every month for an average of 35-40 years.
2023 data shows New York State is the most expensive state to buy period products. It costs a lot to manage a period!

☎️ If you are a person who has NOT had to pay for a monthly period, consider donating menstrual products!

Stop into the shop to donate products (and purchase chocolate for a loved one who menstruates). Don’t live locally? Have products shipped to our shop! (1686 East Main St, Rochester, NY 14609). We will enter you to win a $25 gift card when you donate!

02/04/2026

Support us in advocating for Lcat’s to be added to the NYS budget for commercial and Medicaid coverage for mental health therapy! Lack of insurance coverage is the number one barrier for access to care! Read more below and thanks to the LCAT Advocacy Coalition for all their devoted and continued advocacy!

📣 Announcement! New Press Release from Assemblymember Harry Bronson, Senator Samra Brouk, Billy Joel, and mental health advocates: Call For Budget Action to improve access to mental health and substance use disorder care in New York! 👏👏

https://www.lcatcoalition.org/news/bronson-brouk-joel-call-for-budget-action

🔗 Read about how the proposals to include LCATs on the Medicaid provider list and commercial health insurance panels in this year’s budget will improve much needed access to affordable mental healthcare! 👏👏

📣 Share the link! And keep calling your state senators and assembly members to get these proposals on this year’s budget! Call scripts are also linked in our bio! Every call counts! 👏👏

📣 Thank you to 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, District Council 37, AFSCME, and Northern Rivers Family of Services for their continued support of licensed creative arts therapists! We appreciate everything you do to support LCATs and New Yorkers! 👏👏

02/03/2026

Join us on February 27th for this online workshop! 1-4PM.

Use code LAUGHHCAT for $10 off this training!

01/24/2026

Due to the anticipated weather, our 1/26/26 continuing education workshop is moving to a virtual format. We hope you all stay warm.

We are still so excited for this training and would love to have you join us. We also still have tickets available, and the virtual option may make it easier for more folks to participate.

Information:

January 26th, 6-9PM

Understanding Inference-Based CBT for OCD: A Practical Clinical Training

3 contact hours are available to NYS LCATs, LMHCs, LMSWs/LCSWs, LMFTs.

Learn the foundations of Inference-Based CBT for OCD and gain practical tools to help clients distinguish obsessional doubt from reality.

01/23/2026

It is going to be brutally cold this weekend. If you see someone who needs shelter, there are locations in the city you can tell them to go. Locations on this flyer has 24/7 shelter for anyone in need. If they need transportation to the shelter, RTS will provide free transportation to the shelter.

01/16/2026

The Enterprise Center at PathStone has been instrumental in our success, the have a wide variety of ways they support small businesses! Check them out!

The Enterprise Center at PathStone's President and Executive Director, Javier Zapata, speaks to the impact that we're making on small business communities in WNY - something that we're incredibly proud of.

Thanks to the Rochester Business Journal for featuring us in last week's print edition!

01/13/2026

Frida, our porch goose is enjoying the fireplace and reminding you to practice self love 💜❤️💙💛💚

01/12/2026

We have two continuing education workshops coming up!

3 contact hours are available to NYS LCATs, LMHCs, LMSWs/LCSWs, LMFTs. *See trainings for information on this information.

Shadows & Self: Working with Fear, Mystery, and the Unconscious (Friday, January 16th from 1-4PM via Zoom)

Understanding Inference-Based CBT for OCD: A Practical Clinical Training (Monday, January 26th from 6-9pm in person)

Head to https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/continuing-education-workshops-4475343?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb to register!

Check out our full list of upcoming Continuing Education workshops!