Frame of Mind: INSIDE OUT 2 with Caitlin Kraus

Viewing: May 05,2026

Join us Tuesday, May 5th at 7:00 p.m. as we begin a new film series presented by NAMI Athens in observance of Mental Health Awareness Month!

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

The Frame of Mind Series, seeks to showcase stories that serve as bridges to real conversations, fostering a space for empathy and connection, a space where we, as a community, can lean into vulnerability and face difficult conversations together.

So for the month of May, we invite you to embrace empathy, get together, and step into a new Frame of Mind!

About the film

The emotions are back!

Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust all return in the follow-up to the hit 2015 animated film from Pixar. Young Riley is now a teen who’s reached some big new emotional milestones – she’s now a high school freshman, treading the road of adolescence, and heading to a three-day hockey camp where she’ll be thrust into competition with other young ladies – all of which undoubtedly pose challenges to her emotional well-being. As a result, Joy and her cohorts have created a new section in Riley’s adolescent mind, the “Sense of Self”, as well as a mechanism meant to relay negative thoughts and memories to the back recesses of Riley’s subconscious. However, along with physical maturity comes a higher level of emotional complexity. Joining Joy and the others are 4 new emotions that will complicate Riley’s stability – Envy, Embarrassment, Ennui, and Anxiety – and raise the stakes of Joy’s efforts to keep Riley on an even (and positive) keel as Riley tries to cope with all the new emotionally-charged experiences of young-adulthood.

About the speaker

Caitlin Kraus is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with training supervision designation and Licensed Professional Music Therapist in the state of Ohio. She received her Master of Education in Clinical Mental Health and Rehabilitation Counseling as well as her Master of Music in Music Therapy from Ohio University. At OU CPS, she provides individual and group counseling as well as crisis intervention services. She also serves as liaison to the Patton College of Education, co-facilitates Bobcats Who Care trainings, and is a member of the Training committee and Arts for Prescription committee. She is President-Elect for the Southeast Ohio Counseling Association (SEOCA), a regional chapter of the Ohio Counseling Association.

Before joining CPS, Caitlin provided individual and group counseling services to adult clients in community mental health and co-occurring mental health/substance abuse settings. She has also served as a music therapy professor at Ohio University and has provided individual and group music therapy services to adults and adolescents in community mental health, inpatient psychiatric, forensic, substance abuse rehabilitation, and domestic violence shelter settings in Athens and Columbus, OH, as well as Austin, TX. Her therapeutic style is rooted in a humanistic approach but is largely integrative—including the use of cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, narrative therapy, existential therapy, and feminist therapy. Areas of interest include college student and community mental health and well-being, trauma-informed/focused care, multicultural issues, anxiety, depression, grief, and suicide prevention.

When not working as a counselor and music therapist, Caitlin enjoys writing and performing her own folk/rock music as well as playing old-time Appalachian tunes with musicians in the Athens, OH community. She also enjoys drawing, making collages, reading, hiking, and spending time with her family, friends, and dogs.