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approaches
How I work, and what I believe healing asks of us.
Art and creative means are used throughout treatment. Creative expression brings the unconscious to the conscious level, another way to hold or express.
Art and creative means are used throughout treatment. Creative expression brings the unconscious to the conscious level, another way to hold or express.
Art and creative means are used throughout treatment. Creative expression brings the unconscious to the conscious level, another way to hold or express feelings when words aren't able to convey them. Imagination, curiosity, and playfulness are important ingredients too. Long before this had a name, people were already doing it — grandmothers cooking, weavers in remote villages, elders telling stories around fires.
No. You don't need to be “good” at art, nor an artist, to receive the benefits of art therapy.
Much more about the process than the product.
Clinicians trained in both psychology and art — though the practice itself is far older than the profession.
Mindfulness is simply the act of slowing down our thoughts and our bodies, and cultivating increased self-awareness without self-judgment. Art and mindfulness tend to go hand in hand, allowing for mind–body integration.
No. Mindfulness here means noticing, not sitting still for an hour.
The two go hand in hand — together they open the way to mind–body integration.
In a fast-paced society there are real health benefits to slowing down and reconnecting with the body.
Humanistic and postmodern approaches, such as narrative therapy, support people in re-authoring and reclaiming the stories and narratives of their lives. The aim is not to be interpreted by someone else, but to find your own words for what happened.
A way of re-authoring and reclaiming the stories of your life.
No. You are the author here.
That's often where the work begins.
Liberation psychology acknowledges how systems of oppression trickle down and impact individual and community lives, while emphasising the ancestral wisdom and knowledge within each of us. Anxiety under systemic racism is not irrational — it is survival.
Systems of oppression trickle down and shape individual and community lives.
Then we leave it. This lens is offered, not imposed.
Practice-based and ancestral ways of knowing — the wisdom already carried within you.
I view each client with the utmost empathy and respect, with a non-judgmental approach, while highlighting individual strengths through their journey of healing. The focus stays on what you already carry, not only on what hurts.
Highlighting individual strengths through the journey of healing.
Strength isn't a mood. It is often only visible looking back.
No. Every client is met with empathy and respect, without judgment.
