Having the honour of witnessing and holding my clients is one of the biggest blessings in my life. It’s also a responsibility and a trust that I take very seriously. I learned early on in my private practice that the only way to uphold this tremendous trust that my clients put in me every day …
Do you ever feel small sometimes? What’s that like for you? Do you know what makes you feel small? Where it lands on your body? What your gut reaction is? Today I explored this with a client during our grounding and mindfulness exercise at the beginning of her expressive arts therapy session. It isn’t easy …
Today I invited a client to come into her body, connect with her breath and see what need she was most present with. We spent a few moments breathing into that need, welcoming it, exploring it. Then I invited her to reach for a colour that she felt most inclined to and to bring her …
Expressive Arts Therapy is a person-centered, relational and experiential arts-based approach to psychotherapy that engages the client through a process of creative self-discovery as a way to reconnect with their inner strengths and resources. Clients may explore issues through visual art, creative writing, poetry, drama, music, voice and movement as catalysts for personal inquiry and …
Sometimes this work is heavy. Really heavy. And holding all that it brings can feel like a lot. I had to do a suicide intervention this week with a client who is just a young girl, only 14 years old. I hadn’t needed to support an actively suicidal client since beginning my career in Expressive …