Dr. Semerit Strachan comes from a lineage, on her motherʼs side, of poets, writers, painters and sculptors. All but one of whom pursued their art as a somewhat hidden side hobby. Even though it was only as an adult that she discovered these artistsʼ work, she is grateful for the genetic seed implanted in her – a seed that persisted through the arduous thirty plus years of the medical training and practice that formed her primary career.

Through that time and world-wide experience, she developed a fascination for Body: bodyʼs wisdom, bodyʼs communication, bodyʼs ability to heal – and ultimately the miraculous experience of being Consciousness in Body. David Whyte, one of her favorite poets and visionary quotes, “We cannot enter a territory for which we do not know the language.” And Semerit became passionate about teaching, or more accurately, reconnecting people to Bodyʼs symbolic language as an essential element in true healing.

This is what attracted her to Intentional Creativity, a step by step method to reconnect people to hidden aspects of themselves. She felt that using this method, she could guide people to truly hear and interpret what their Body was really trying to tell them. She was unprepared for the blossoming of artistic expression that resulted from her immersion into the method. The powerful images of the Feminine and the Inner World that she never knew had been gestating created an even deeper awe of the healing potential of creativity.

Her work is imbued heavily with cultural icons of her African heritage and celebrates boldly our healing and evolutionary potential. Certified as an Intentional Creativity Coach and Teacher of the Color of Woman method, she finds that her coaching, painting, and doctoring have synthesized into an integrated healing art form. She is passionate about reaching a global audience with this art form through paintings, writings, workshops and one on one and group coaching. She envisions and champions the dawning and creation of a new medicine that encompasses the arts, directs patients to their own inner healing force, and is capable of ushering the planet into the evolution required of our Age one body at a time.

After extensive research into neuropsychology, neuroplasticity, left-brain/right-brain integration and mind-mapping, she integrated all of her past experience in medicine, art, healing, and psychology into her "Art is Oxygen" workshop and her "Art is a Healing Walk" online course. She has presented these workshops around the country including versions for the United Nations, and various universities, corporations and governmental agencies.

Her other credentials include: MD from Mt Sinai School of Medicine in NYC, Assistant Director of Primary Health Care for Save the Children, Clinical Faculty of the Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Program at the University of Minnesota, Director of Medicine and Fellow at the Cultural Wellness Center in South Minneapolis, and Faculty for the National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute.