Alyse Ruriani (she/they) is a Board-Certified Registered Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, mixed media artist, and person with lived experience. She is the author-illustrator of The Big Feelings Survival Guide, a creative workbook for mental health with prompts based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Art Therapy.

Alyse aims to communicate information, provide tangible tools, and validate the human experience. She sees her work as being rooted in lived experience, informed by clinical knowledge, and expressed through creativity.

Alyse lives in a colorful apartment in Chicago (the unceded land of the Council of Three Fires) with her black cat/co-therapist Boo. When Alyse is not working, you can likely find them swimming in some body of water, making art with friends, or engaging in whatever her newest ADHD-fueled hyperfixation is at the moment.