Creative expression in art, music, dance, play, performance, meals, and crafts has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Before I entered into the psychotherapy field, I worked as an artist and art teacher. Because I have a familiarity with the creative process, I find I often work with artists, musicians, writers, and creative people.

In my training as an Expressive Art Therapist, I learned a variety of approaches to supporting nonverbal expression of thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories and images. The process of externalizing through creative practice can be many things: catharsis, clarification, symbolic expression, mirror of self, realized art to share with others… I value all the forms of transmitting inner experience or struggle into accessible external form.

Regardless of whether you see yourself as creative, I find that the process of problem solving is a creative experience. Particularly in my work with supporting people to heal trauma, I find that exploring a healing process and deepening your understanding of yourself generates a lot of new connections, inspiration, and access to the generative life force we all have.

In sessions, I pay close attention to images, associations, and creative thinking processes in order to reflect to you ways I see your resilience and capacity to thrive showing up. Trauma, adversity, struggle, and pain require us to tap into survival skills and resilience. This is akin to creativity. The skills of flourishing are different from skills of survival. I support your innate imaginativeness in discovering what these skills of blossoming are for you.