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Integrating psychoanalysis and creative practice to help writers find, free, and reignite the flame behind their stories.

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Your fire has never gone out. It's only been waiting.

A free guide for writers who feel lost, overwhelmed, or stuck —

wherever you are, this is where you begin.

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Designing Your
Fiction Work

Calling all Fiction Writers!  Join now to engage with this self-paced, 7-module online course that will guide you through structuring literary mainstream fiction, genre writing, and everything from flash fiction to full-length novels. Whether you are crafting your first story or your fiftieth, this original course from a seasoned writer, editor, and educator takes you through the adventure of creating the architecture of compelling fiction!  

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Designing Your
Non-Fiction Work

“Designing Your Non-Fiction Book” is a multi-module, self-study online course for writers who are ready to create their non-fiction book. Included is a Step-by-Step Workbook “The Necklace Metaphor,” which accompanies each level of creation in the course, taking you from nascent ideas or a wealth of material to corral into the perfect book design for you!

Healing For Your Life

Dr. Gwyn Erwin brings together decades of therapeutic clinical practice, writing, and creative work to help you understand yourself more deeply, heal what has shaped you, and create a life that is fully your own.

Identify Personal
Challenges

Turn Obstacles
Into Opportunities

Embrace
Self-Growth

Are you facing challenges that feel overwhelming? Are you stuck in defensive patterns of thinking and being? Do you  suffer from unresolved trauma? Are you haunted by PTSD/CPTSD? 
Let me help you step onto your unique path of healing.
Together, we will tap into innovative approaches that will
support courage, deepen wisdom, inspire change, and
purposefully create your authentic life

"Make your mark by the imaginal act of originating

an idea and bringing it into form.”

                     — Gwyn Erwin

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Meet Dr Gwyn Erwin

Through therapeutic clinical practice, writing, and creativity of thirty years, Dr. Gwyn Erwin has been helping people move from suffering into healing.

Her work brings together deep clinical insight and the tools of writing and creativity to create the space for understanding how our developmental experiences shape the lives we live today and discover what becomes possible when healing

becomes a way of life.

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The sacred space of the therapeutic relationship
is a real relationship of heart and mind, where once-protective dynamics that now work against the
patient in life can be faced, understood, and transformed. Through this process, new ways of relating change and enhance both patient and therapist.”

        — Gwyn Erwin

Dr. Gwyn Erwin, Ph.D, Psy.D
 

The Board of Psychology, Research Psychoanalyst #70.

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