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What is Creative Arts Therapy?
Creative Arts Therapy, also known as Expressive Arts Therapy, is an umbrella terms for mental health practices that use various art forms and the creative process to improve and enhance psychological, emotional, social, and even physical healing and well-being. The Creative and Expressive Arts Therapies include, but are not limited to, art, music and sound, dance/movement, and drama modalities. A creative arts process may also incorporate writing and poetry, symbolism and analogy, guided meditation, and imagery. These modalities and approaches can be used simultaneously for an inter-modal creative arts process or successively for an inter-modal transfer experience.
There are as many methods of therapy as there are people. Once we establish your goals with therapy, I will design a “course”, if you will - a schedule of sessions to help you reach that goal using what I call “movement”. Often, my clients find that movement quite literally unlocks things hidden within our subconscious that may be blocking us. It is an active form of therapy. I’ll suggest methods that you are comfortable with and we will go at your pace.
Dance/Movement Therapy
“Based on the empirically supported premise that the mind and body are interconnected, the American Dance Therapy Association defines Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) as: the psychotherapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration of the individual” -American Dance Therapy Association
Music Therapy:
“Music Therapy (MT) is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program” -American Music Therapy Association
Art Therapy
“Art Therapy is an integrative mental health and human services profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship” -American Art Therapy Association
Drama Therapy or Psychodrama
“Drama Therapy (DT) is an active, experiential approach to facilitating change. Through storytelling, projective play, purposeful improvisation, and performance, participants are invited to rehearse desired behaviors, practice being in relationship, expand and find flexibility between life roles, and perform the change they wish to be and see in the world.” -North American Drama Therapy Association
Movement quite literally unlocks things hidden within our subconscious that may be blocking us.
“There are as many types of therapies as there are people. Once we establish your goals with therapy, I will design a “course” unique and specific to you - a schedule of sessions to help you reach that goal using what I call “movement”.
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Treatments & Interventions
Attachment Theory
Behavior Activation
Bioecological Model
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Creative and Expressive Arts Therapies
Dance/Movement Therapy
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Eclectic
Experiential
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Mind-Body Psychosomatics
Mindfulness
Multicultural
Psychodynamic
Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation
Somatic Experiencing
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What We Can Help With
Anxiety
Attachment Challenges
Burn Out
Codependency
Complex Trauma
Depression
Family Relationship Issues
Frustration Tolerance
Gender Exploration and Identity
Life Transitions
Men’s Issues
OCD
Pre-verbal and Childhood Trauma
PTSD
Racial Identity
Racial Trauma
Relational Challenges
Self Esteem and Confidence
Self-Harming Behaviors
Sexuality and Intimacy
Societal Pressures and Expectations
Women’s Issues
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Who We Work With
Individuals
Couples
Families
BIPOC
Immigrants and First Generation Individuals
LGBTQIAP
Men
Open or Poly Relational Individuals and Couples
Women
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