Video by Sean Metzger | Defense Health Agency | 12.09.2024
Lance Cpl Sara Vanegas is a Marine with the Wounded Warriors Batallion East at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. She is a talented artist who is finding community through her art and the Warrior Care Program. Learn more about the many resources and programs available at health.mil/warriorcare....
Video by Sara Barger and John Benedetto | Defense Health Agency | 11.17.2023
Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Robert Scoggins describes his experience using art to recover from PTSD and a traumatic brain injury. Scoggins art tells the story of his mulitple suicide attempts and his journey to recovery. Scoggins, along with his art teacher, retired Air Force Staff Sgt. Greg Miller, displayed art at the Air Force Wounded Warrior Care Fair and Day of Healing in National......
Video by Spc. David Campos-Contreras | U.S. Army Central | 10.01.2022
Master Sgt. Elsie Ortiz, assigned to the 3rd Medical Command, leads the Paint Club at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, November 29, 2022. Ortiz says it is important to find hobbies and that Soldiers find the process of painting therapeutic to combat the stress from their duty days. (U.S. Army video by Spc. David Campos-Contreras)...
Video by Joveria Javed | National Intrepid Center of Excellence | 03.23.2022
Adrienne Stamper, an art therapist at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), provides a window into the process of healing through art therapy. Art therapists are master’s-level behavioral health professionals who are trained to use art as a vehicle for non-verbal thoughts, emotions, and experiences. At NICoE, the service members have freedom of self-expression and use a......
Video by Joveria Javed | National Intrepid Center of Excellence | 03.16.2022
Liz Freeman, lead dance/movement therapist; and Kristine Keliiki, dance/movement therapist at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), discuss the many ways they use dance movement therapy (DMT) to help patients at the NICoE. DMT is the psychotherapeutic use of movement to promote emotional, social, cognitive, and physical parts of a person in order to improve health and well-being.......
Video by Joveria Javed | National Intrepid Center of Excellence | 03.16.2022
Nate McLaughlan is a board-certified music therapist at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE). In this video, he discusses the many way music therapy can help patients at the NICoE. He explains that music therapy uses music-based experiences to address identified symptoms and goals with a music therapist who is trained to use elements of music to promote physical, mental, and......
Video by Airman 1st Class Anna Nolte | 18th Wing | 10.01.2021
Sarah Russell, founder of the Mental Health Peer Alliance, shares her journey with mental health and the events that inspired her to start a support group in Okinawa, Japan. (U.S. Air Force video by Airman 1st Class Anna Nolte)...
Video by Senior Airman Dhruv Gopinath | Regional Media Center - Japan | 11.13.2018
Interview with Second Lady of the United States Mrs. Karen Pence at the residence of U.S. Ambassador to Japan Mr. William Haggerty November 13, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan....
