Gain foundational knowledge about the body’s response to stress and how stressors affect both the mind and body. Learn about the body’s counter-response to stress, commonly known as the relaxation response along with an essential resilience technique to combat stress.
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Our Speaker
Tricia Winklosky, MS, ATR-BCF
Senior Director, Clinical Health & Wellness
Hope for the Warriors
Tricia Winklosky is the Hope For The Warriors Senior Director Clinical Health & Wellness. As Health and Wellness Director, Tricia develops policy and establishes operating procedures to ensure the overall quality in the delivery of programmatic services. She also assists with clinical and case management intervention and oversees organizational collaborative work to provide continuity of Health and Wellness services. Prior to taking this position, Tricia developed clinical programming for the Family Reintegration Program (FRP) alongside the Holliswood Hospital Art Therapy team and Hope For The Warriors staff.
Tricia is a clinical art therapist who holds a Master of Science Degree in Art Psychotherapy with an emphasis in Family Art Therapy from Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia. She is a registered and board certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC) with the American Art Therapy Association since 1994/97.
Tricia has practiced both clinical art therapy and traditional psychotherapy for 15 years. She has practiced in diverse locations in military and civilian settings, including California, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Okinawa, Japan. During her career, she worked primarily in inpatient psychiatric settings including residential treatment centers, skilled nursing facilities, state psychiatric facility, and acute inpatient psychiatric hospitals. Additionally, Tricia has worked in an acute psychiatric setting with military children and families and as a Mental Health Provider at a Naval Hospital working with active duty service members and their families.
Tricia is married to a retired Marine. She currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her husband and three children. As a child of a World War II veteran who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury after his service, Tricia has a deeply held personal interest and professional dedication to helping military families, caregivers, and veterans with recovery, rehabilitation, and transition.
Series Moderator
Troy Lowery
Director of Student Outreach, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
George Mason University
Troy Lowery is the Director of Student Outreach within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS). He serves as the primary point of contact for prospective student visits and orientation of incoming CHSS students at events planned by our Mason partner offices (Admissions, New Student and Family Programs). He also works alongside the Associate Dean and the College’s development team to coordinate the selection of recipients for several merit and need based scholarships, as well as the planning and coordination of small and large-scale events. Troy is a United States Marine Corps veteran.