drop into your senses
expressive arts therapy
Expressive Arts Therapy is non-invasive nourishment focused therapy that uses direct experience through art making to tap into the senses in order to explore thoughts, patterns, & belief systems. Expressive Arts is intermodal, the work calls on a wide variety of different artistic modalities. With this being said, EXA has a low skill, high sensitivity approach, and thus no prior technical skills are necessary to do this work. Relating to and through the medium is the point.
Expressive Arts Therapy offers an invitation to enter into the imaginal via the Arts and the wondrous thing about this realm is that it moves away from narrow logic. When sight of the shore is lost, new possibilities have the chance to appear. This departure often provides insight, which acts as a catalyst for providing new solutions for old problems. Expressive Arts Therapy offers a gateway to the truth and wisdom that lives inside your own body.
Emotional & physical abuse / abuse prevention
Eating disorders & body dysmorphia
Anxiety, depression, stress
Personal growth, worthiness & self-esteem
Self-regulation
Somatic Experiencing Professional Training, Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced, 2024
Applied Suicide Intervention Skill Training, ASIST, 2021
Expressive Arts Therapist, Vancouver School of Healing Arts, 2020
(RTC) Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, 2020
(TRB) British Columbia Teaching Certificate
Registered Yoga Teacher (500 hours)
200 hours - Shree Hari Yoga School, Kudle Beach, Gokarna, India (March, 2019)
300 hours - Passion Yoga School, Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica (August 2016)
International Baccalaureate Diploma Visual Art, (Category 1 & 2), 2018’ Rice University IB Spring Workshop, Houston, Texas, US
Masters of Teaching, 2012, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland, Australia
Bachelor of Arts, 2009, The University of Western Ontario, London Ontario, Canada (Specialization in Visual Arts, Minor in Religious Studies)
Satya is a Sanskrit word that translates as truth in English. Satya comes from the Yama’s (one of the eight limbs of Yoga) which outlines five guiding principles for societal ethics. The sentiment of truth being a self practice — and more specifically, a self regulation practice of (thoughts, emotions and words) is part of the nuance that doesn’t seem to translate through the english word truth. Checking in with the stories that we breathe life into is a detrimental practice for weeding out self-limiting beliefs that sabotage expansion and growth.
Pablo Picasso said, “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth” . The creative non-linear process of Expressive Arts therapy shares a similar sentiment by (pointing) at something that’s already within.
“Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth” - Mahatma Gandhi
As a facilitator of Expressive Arts Therapy I have the privilege of collaborating with various mediums to create a safe and supportive container that enables the discovery of your own heart’s truths.
