Create. Reflect. Grow.

Art Therapy Psychology

  • “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for.”

    - Georgia O'Keeffe

  • "I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."

    - Jean-Michel Basquiate

  • "Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary."

    -Ellen Dissanayake

  • "Creativity takes courage."

    - Henri Matisse

  • “Art is all about starting again.”

    -David Bayles & Ted Orland, Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

  • “The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.”

    -Vincent Van Gogh

What is Art Therapy?

“Art therapy is an integrative mental health and human services profession that uses active art-making, creative process, and applied psychological theory within the therapy process. It engage engages the mind, body, and spirit in ways that are distinct from verbal articulation alone.” - American Art Therapy Association

Words are often not enough to describe the complexity of the human experience. Art is a dynamic, tangible, and holistic means of self-expression that allows the breadth of the human experience to be fully conveyed. The creative process provides the opportunities for inquiry, awareness, and healing.

Art therapy is effective in treating a wide variety of mental health needs including anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, grief, life events/transitions, and more! Art therapy works with all ages and abilities and can aid in fostering self-awareness & self-esteem, facilitating self-expression, encouraging problem-solving and communication, pain-reduction, increasing well-being, processing emotional distress & trauma, and cultivating emotional resilience.

I have been making art for 18 years and have personal experience in the power of art as a healing experience. Art therapy requires no art skill or know how and is not concerned with “good” or “bad” art. We are all artists.