EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY IN CHICAGO & MILWAUKEE.
Deeper Healing. Lasting Change.
You’ve been in therapy before… but still feel like going back to square one.…Expressive Arts Therapy can help.
Talking sometimes does help, and you’re using the skills you’ve learned. But you want long-lasting change and to be bold in your life. You deserve an amazing life with ease. You’ll feel calm and confident in your experience. You’ll have a sense of belonging in your world.
You can try new things with more ease and be able to show up authentically at work and home. You’ll feel more confident in your ability to express yourself and enjoy your person. You will walk with resilience and this uncanny belief that you’re worth it just as you are.
98% of communication is non-verbal. I bring my expertise and knowledge about human creativity and healing to help you through expressive arts to explore the blocks that keep you from living your best life. I don’t just help you explore but also experience the world differently with more confidence and the opportunity to be heard in the way you need.
You will find it easier to connect with the ones you love. I understand that sometimes you don’t have words to describe your experience, and you don’t have to. I help you understand your inner world and how to calm down your nervous system to live a more authentic, creative, and thriving life.
You don’t have to be an artist or a creative to make the most of Expressive Arts Therapy. It’s about expressing yourself in the present moment and bearing witness to that.
Expressive Arts Therapy can look like whatever you’d like it to.
We could use movement, crayons, clay, writing, markers, etc.
Whatever will help you connect more deeply and experience the growth you’re looking for.
What we’ll work on:
Helping you connect with your inner guidance
To feel connected in yourself, inner experience, and relationships
Find new ways of self-care and help you slow down
Understanding what’s keeping you stuck from thriving.
Ditch your Anxiety. Embrace your voice.
You’re a pioneer in creative thinking; you’ve done the work to improve yourself, to ground yourself, you have self-awareness, and yet something still feels like it’s keeping you stuck. Whether raising your kids based on your values or sharing your new ideas at work, you bring your creativity and your unique way of thinking.
You notice that you don’t have the same passion for your art and can’t find alone time. You’ve tried traditional talk therapy, and as helpful as it may have been, you want more than sitting in a room and chatting about what’s happening. You want a different experience and long-lasting change.
Expressive arts help you to understand your experience better without my interpretation or analysis of what’s going on.
You feel:
Like you’ve lost your compass or guide
More withdrawn at work and in your relationships
Old self-care skills are not working
Stuck, and not sure why.
Expression is for every woman.
Deeper Healing with Expresive Arts.
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Expressive Arts Therapy can help.
It might feel odd and weird at first to try something new. I get it, you might be thinking, “are we just going to paint”? No, I bring a multi-faceted approach that uses the arts to help you work through your experience.
It may seem impossible now, but you can heal from your hurt and thrive. You can feel more confident and have long-lasting change.
And I can help you get there by a holistic, creative mind-body-creative approach that goes way beyond talking-in facts, you don’t have to use words if you don’t want to.
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Holistic Expressive Arts Therapies can help you do 3 things:
Build on your innate intuition and the strength you have within. Be able to manage difficult feelings, calm your nervous system down, and be more present in your life.
Reconnect with your inner compass and direct experience. Be able to know what you’re feeling, honor, and express yourself.
Increase your self-worth and learn the value of your unique expression.
Together, let’s discover the creativity and courage that’s already within you.
FAQS
What others have wondered about Expressive Arts Therapy.
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“Art is a constant agent of transformation is indeed the soul’s drive to health” Cathy Malchoidi
Ok, let’s get one thing straight! You do not have to be an artist to do expressive arts therapy! I am going to say it again, you do not have to be ‘creative’ or an ‘artist’ to feel alive and connect with your body, heart, and soul. If you are human, you can do expressive arts therapy. Humans are expressive beings and social creatures! It’s in your DNA!
We all have painful stories about what happened to us. Expressive Arts Therapy is a model of psychotherapy that uses multi-art modalities such as painting, movement, dance, drawing, writing, poetry, play, oil pastels, drumming, and clay to help you move through the psychological/emotional blocks that keep you from living your full life.
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Expressive Arts Therapy helps you to imagine a new way of being, a new story that empowers you to move forward and cultivate the life you desire.
You want to feel alive and playful. You want to experience it fully. Expressive Arts can help you connect to your body, imagination, self-compassion, and ability to create a new life.
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In an Expressive Arts therapy session, you will bring the art materials to our online therapy space. You need some room if we play with movement and dance. I will lead you through a warm-up exercise, and we will start with what is coming up for you today. I guide you through using the multiple arts to calm down, connect with your body, and express yourself more fully.
I will gently give you verbal guides such as increasing your movement or slowing it down as I notice your body moving or doing art.
More questions? Check out my FAQs page.
Expressive Arts Therapy for:
Life Transitions (job change, divorce, moving)
Creative blocks
Improve performance (academically, creatively)
Identity development
Questioning the meaning of life