expressive arts

A little girl dreaming in a darkly night
"... and she went up and up until she could drink milky drops from the stars..."

The process of art making held in the safe place of our Expressive Arts room, allows creativity to emerge, tapping into the client's own resources to process and to share experiences, to find new meanings with the presence of a compassionate witness. Art making offers through imagination a multimodal tool for empowerment and enables the person to ask questions, to find answers and to recognize his/ her needs. Art making also helps to find creative responses not only to particular situations but to changes and transitions (internal/developmental and external) in life.  Finally, one of the most important benefits of the expressive arts is giving the space to play and find joy, bringing aliveness to our experiences no matter what life have brought to us in the past or the challenges of  present circumstances.

I have been working with small groups and individuals according to their needs offering different media for self expression through imagination: painting, clay, enactment, creative writing, and creative visualization, body centered work, dance, movement and sound.