Ash North Compton
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Psychotherapist |  Lecturer, Consultantessays icon

  • Private practice with foci on attachment traumas, anxiety, obsessions, grief, tech addiction, expressive ruts, climate grief, and disaster trauma in psychodynamic and existential orientations.
  • Ash Compton Counseling, PLLC, Founder and Clinician; Connecticut
  • Austin Family Counseling, Senior Clinician; Texas
  • Lecturer and CEU courses delivered on: Prolonged Grief in [Brief] Depth; Archetypes and Transference; Sustainable Practice Building (2021-2022)
  • Ecopsychological presentations delivered: “Invasive Species - a study of non-belonging using the digital body of AI as collective unconscious"; "The Dark History of Optimizer Culture" (2023)
  • Guest Jungian Therapist / Subject Matter Expert to co-lead Marion Woodman 'Dancing in the Flames' Book Group, hosted by Alchemical Toil/Inner Work Library / Chapter 1 / A Fierce and Loving Goddess (2020)
  • West Texas Therapy, practitioner and founder/owner, Marfa
  • AffiniPay, consulting lecturer, Austin; "Adolescence as an Initiatory Threshold" (2022)
  • The High Frontier Adolescent Treatment Center Fort Davis, trainee practitioner (2014-2015)
  • Children’s Think Tank at Early Futures Baltimore, researcher (volunteer) (2011)

Design | Environmental, Systems, and Sustainable Interiors

Art | Art Direction and Sensory, Visual and Interactive Arts 

  • Shared [Sensory] Somatic Activation- a collaborative installation about Lost Ecologies - for The Bobby Anspach Memorial Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY (2023)
    With music composed by Mary Lattimore
  • “Routes for Inner and Outer Space Exploration," climate change adaptation tech-dystopia visual essay published in Marfa Myths zine, 2nd Edition (2016)
    Collaboration with Laura Copelin
  • Marfa Myths zine, 3rd Edition, contributing artist (2017)
  • Pistilphilia, 3-part video project, creative director (2019)
  • FRAY ARDENS- short film, co-director, art director, and illustrator (2017)
  • Multisensory experience at Perot Museum’s Social Science Night, at the Being Human Hall, in collaboration with Oil & Cotton, Dallas (2015)
  • Synesthesia workshop, held at Oil & Cotton, Dallas (2014)
  • Unbelievable Things: 25 Year of Art on Merge Records, at LIGHT Art + Design, Chapel Hill, contributing artist (2014)
  • Art Direction and film production for corporate clients including the American Red Cross, Center for Disease Control, Discovery Channel, HBO, and more (2009-2011)