Creative Therapeutic Modalities

Life calls us at important junctures to attend, listen, and open to dialogue with our larger process.  Moments of personal challenge and crisis often offer us our greatest opportunities for personal growth and resolution into our true being. Finding a healing voice is as important as listening, and being listened to.  I believe that the voice carries intrinsic healing qualities, and that cultivating a kind compassionate voice is particularly powerful.  My role as a hypnotherapist often begins with lending an ear, then in offering a voice, and finally witnessing the power of my clients as they access and strengthen their own healing voice.  I have had the benefit of receiving my training at the HYPNOTHERAPY TRAINING INSTITUTE.  This has provided me with a full range of hypnotherapy approaches.  I primarily utilize Ericksonian principles to facilitate Mindfulness with Internal Family Systems "Parts Therapy" and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.  Find out more about hypnosis at

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/hypnosis/about/pac-20394405

There are multiple ways of touching our deeper centers of meaning and perspective.  Creative expression is something we all have waiting to be tapped, whether or not we have yet discovered a preferred medium or modality.  While the process of handling, playing, and working with art media can be healing on many levels in and of itself (Art As Therapy, Tessa Dalley,1984), it can also be made available as a Psychotherapy modality for expressing, clarifying, and resolving symptoms (Art Psychotherapy, Wadeson, 1980).  You may enjoy recalling various sensory delights you discovered as a child.  Your list may include playing in the water and sand at the beach, making "mud pies" in the back yard, or discovering the magical way images form as you are introduced to finger paints.

Art Therapy is an active, empowering form of therapy which supports safe expression of what may have initially seemed difficult or impossible.  It allows us to clarify internal experience and find new perspectives for resolution of a multitude of human experiences.  Just as listening and attending to our body language is a potent source of understanding, our personal symbols and imagery provide potent wells of working knowledge which reward us for our attendance. 

We all have pools of wisdom – places of tender access where we connect, share, and recharge our spirit.  At times we may find this kind of resonance in nature’s formations and confluences, while at other times we may find it forming in our own hands.  Creative Arts Therapy is found in our human gestures and expressions, providing rich facets of experience to appreciate and learn from.  At times it can flow playfully and spontaneously, seemingly without much thought or intention.  At other times it can be a more conscious process deliberately driven by a sense of passionate commitment and purpose.   I am a multimedia art therapist, and have a broad view of what creative therapeutic media can include.  

                              Read more about Art Therapy from the American Art Therapy Association http://www.americanarttherapyassociation.org/upload/whatisarttherapy.pdf