Expressive arts provide a wordless way to explore emotions and perceptions. Based upon your interests, needs, and treatment goals, I can design visual expressive arts activities to deepen the verbal component of your evidence-based therapy sessions.

How Can Art Help?

It’s not about making pictures that look good. Using colors, shapes, textures, and/or objects in nature, you tap into your imagination to access feelings and perceptions.

Who Are Expressive Arts For?

This wordless way to explore experiences may interest people who feel:

  • Overwhelmed by the intensity of their sadness, grief, fear, and anger, especially when those emotions are arising from trauma
  • Blocked in thinking about or discussing thoughts, feelings or behaviors
  • Motivated by a visual and self-paced way to explore feelings and ideas
“Creating artwork allows your mind to be in a safe place while it contemplates the tougher issues you are dealing with. One can use the tools of brush, paint, pastels, crayons etc. to expose and even for a short time color those issues in a different light.”
― George E. Miller