Creative Expression

Creative
Expression

Creative Expression in Your Therapy Session

The Process: If you want to do short expressive art or writing exercises in your therapy session, I am happy to facilitate this. What I offer is somewhat different from art therapy. Typically, an art therapist would facilitate art-making, quietly observe you creating for most of your session, and talk about what you have made near the end. The sessions that I offer as a Depth-Oriented therapist facilitate short spontaneous exercises to spark a deeper therapeutic conversation using methods to tap into your deeper subconscious/unconscious mind.

During your session, I will facilitate and guide you through 1-3 short expressive arts exercises to help you tap into your right brain and deepen your understanding of your current growth edge. I will support you in a meditative and ongoing way to stay connected to your spontaneity through your creative expression process, so you can expect that I will talk to you gently and intuitively (similar to a hypnotic induction) as you create to keep you connected to your right brain and your emotional body.

Expressive Arts Exercises: Each session, spontaneously created, might include a simple collage, poetry, storytelling, painting, or drawing exercise. You can let me know what feels best for you, but all the surprising creative invitations I offer do not require prior art or writing experience. Expect to be surprised and even delighted by what can come through your creative mind. Through my exercises, I aim to facilitate a fresh understanding of your emerging emotional growth edge.

Art Materials: Please bring a pen, journal, sketchbook, or paper. Also, bring three magazines, a glue stick, scissors, black and coloured markers, oil pastels, watercolour paints, brushes, and water.

Typically, in session time, we can explore your higher vision for your life and what is holding you back or blocking you from actualizing it, or we can explore a deeper connection to the emerging growth edge that is trying to arise from your subconscious to your conscious mind.

All expressive art sessions are done on Zoom.

What You Can Expect

1. Connection and guidance in your art-making process.

2. Deeper insights into your creative process than when creating alone.

3. An amplification of inspiration for your creative process.

4. Enjoyment of the creative process in dialogue with another.

5. A more profound experience of the intuitive art process.

6. Safe, professional guidance in the expressive arts.

7. A creative exploration as to how your emotional pain blocks your highest self-expression.

8. Intuitive insights from outside your intellectual mind and access to more inspiration than you can access through logical thought.

9. The "felt" understanding of your emotions and your healing growth edge in visual form.

10. New ways to describe your feelings through spontaneous art and wordplay.

Counselling & Hypnotherapy

I'm a licensed and insured member of the Association of Cooperative Counsellors of Canada (ACCT) as a Masters level counsellor. (MTC)
I'm a certified Clinical Counselling Hypnotherapist as a (C.Hyp)

Expressive Arts

I'm a Registered Consultant and Educator with the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. (REACE)
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