Expressive Art Therapy

I believe that everyone has a creative side, and if this is tapped into a person can feel enlivened, energized, confident and free.

By integrating the creative arts into counseling sessions, the therapist helps the client articulate his or her life concerns and overcome the challenge one has in putting their experience to words. This can be especially challenging for young children and adolescents. The expressive arts; play, visual arts, sculpting, drama, sandtray can be a powerful intervention to assist children and teens with behavioral and psychological challenges, who may have been affected by; trauma, divorce/remarriage, substance abuse, peer pressure, school pressures, self-esteem, illness.

Using the arts as a vehicle for expression and understanding, is also appealing to adults who want to improve the quality of their lives, want symptom relief and want to grow personally and creatively. I treat adults with a wide range of problems including; struggles with life transitions, low self-esteem, depression and anxiety.

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We experience it (a dream) predominantly in visual images; feelings may be present too, and thoughts interwoven as well; the other senses may also experience something, but nonetheless it is predominantly a question of images.

Part of the difficulty of giving an account of dreams is due to our having to translate these images into words. “I could draw it,” a dreamer often says to us, “but I don’t know how to say it”

- Sigmund Freud