About Marie-Eve S. Kielson
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Writer ~ Consultant ~ Psychotherapist
As a writer, Marie-Eve S. Kielson has taken the stories that have been generously offered to her in her role as psychotherapist and woven them with the themes that honor the human condition. Her books inspire and bring hope to all who have chosen to fulfill their personal and professional mission in life. She is particularly committed to generating the concept that dreams can come true and do, odds can be beaten, and risk taking is a necessary component of life if destinies are to be fulfilled.
Marie-Eve has written numerous articles regarding in-depth character and plot development for Scr(i)pt Magazine, Creative Screenwriting, Cinestorian, Insider, The Writer's Aid, and Hollywood Scriptwriter. She has also been featured in The New York Screenwriter Monthly. She has co-authored the book, So You Want To Be A Screenwriter: How To Face The Fears And Take The Risks (Allworth Press) and has recently completed her second book Messengers: The Courage to Rebel - The Power to Inspire. Marie-Eve and her husband, Daniel, are collaborating on a third book Reflections: A Love for Words and Images, which honors the love and respect they both have for the power and magic of nature.
Marie-Eve is periodically interviewed for publications in the film/production, theater, and advertising markets. She has been a featured guest and panelist on numerous television and radio programs. In 1991 she created Kielson Media Consulting to provide psychological script consultation to writers and film/production companies throughout the United States. The formation of her firm was inspired by her innate fascination with human nature and a lifelong love for the cinema.
With each writer with whom she consults, a collaborative relationship is established as both delve into the unique interiority, generational history, and private psychology of the characters waiting to be created and developed. It is crucial that the writer become aware of what truly motivates the characters and how each of them will bring a very specific presence, language, and demeanor to the plot. The major goal of the consultation process is to discover what lies beneath the surface of all of the characters who have been carefully selected to take part in the writer's story and to encourage the writer to present them truthfully and without reserve.
Marie-Eve has designed and presented seminars for screenwriters and writers of fiction and non-fiction. Writers' organizations have invited her to share her expertise on the psychological guidelines required for creating riveting scripts. Her interactive style allows for participants to probe the psychology of their characters in order to claim their true identities. Their scripts and story premises are reviewed and given new energy, allowing for blockages to be better understood and removed. The workshops that she has developed are heavily weighted in her love of discovery of what motivates us and drives our behaviors. They include: Getting to Know Your Character's Psychology (Chicago), Bringing Your Script To The Shrink...Expanding Realities (New York), and The Psychology of Character and Plot...Amplifying The Creative Process (Winnetka, IL).
Marie-Eve S. Kielson is a licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed clinical professional counselor. As a therapist, she works closely with each client to help discover the ways in which generational themes, legacies, and programming are contributing to inner turmoil and prohibiting a sense of well-being and liberation. Issues of fear, depression, anxiety, addiction, unfinished business, secrets, grief, abandonment, divorce, illness, emotional and physical abuse are but a few of the major issues that are addressed in concert with the unveiling of each client's desire and willingness to fulfill a creative mission and destiny. Marie-Eve and her clients design a map of what will be required in making inner changes and transformations, and together they address the risks that lie ahead and the compromises that are required as the process of healing unfolds. Marie-Eve encourages her clients to honor their personal journey, the sacrifices that have been made in the name of change, and she stresses the importance of paying respect and homage to the roads that have been previously traveled.
Marie-Eve received her Masters Degree in Guidance and Counseling from Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. She completed six years post-masters concentrated study in the fields of marriage and family therapy, Gestalt therapy theory and practice, and addiction counseling.