ART THERAPY
“Often the hands know how to solve a riddle with which the intellect has wrestled in vain” – Carl Jung
We believe in building a trusting, supportive, and safe environment where you can explore what brought you to therapy. Whether you are feeling overwhelmed and in need of a supportive space or are on your journey to achieving your highest potential, we will co-create a treatment plan that is flexible and feels right. Once we’ve developed a strong therapeutic relationship, we’ll be able to delve into deeper work. If you wish to engage in art, we’ll process it together– whether it’s a doodle, photo, poem, clay sculpture, or maybe playing with imagination, visualization, or dreams– and tap into deeper truths, realizations, and over time, healing.
ART THERAPY With…
Children: Art and play are the natural language of children. Not yet possessing the verbal sophistication to tell us their feelings, thoughts, emotions, and experiences, art therapy utilizes a wide array of creative interventions to support children at all stages of their ongoing development. Sessions can be tailored to address your specific needs, which may include building communication, improving attunement and connection, creating limits and boundaries, and fostering healthy attachment and opportunities for bonding.
Teens: During adolescence, teenagers develop a healthy desire for independence and self-expression. This unique time of life can create upheaval in families, especially when parents or caregivers can’t seem to understand their teen. Conversely, teenagers can feel that their emotions, feelings, and opinions misunderstood. Art therapy sessions is a rich form for adolescents to explore themselves and their relationships with others, have space to express themselves, and receive the emotional support they need for healthy functioning. Sessions can be tailored to address your specific needs, which may be building healthy communication skills, fostering meaningful connection, developing listening skills, and creating boundaries and expectations.
Young Adults/Adults: Young adulthood has some of the toughest developmental challenges and expected milestones of life – maintaining a serious relationship, moving out, establishing a career, navigating work-life balance, getting married, having children, losses, aging parents or caregivers, and buying a home to name a few. The multiple pressures of this time of life can add up and easily overwhelm. Art therapy sessions can provide a space for individuals to feel seen and heard, feel grounded, and achieve more balance.