People often come for therapy when their effort to improve their experience of living is just not working for them. Life presents challenges and we do our best to meet those challenges, but we often get stuck, frustrated and overwhelmed.
Therapy can help by providing a safe place for unloading stored up thoughts and emotions, and unlearning old destructive or unproductive habits. There are many ways to accomplish this, many kinds of therapy and therapists, many modalities and methods.
My job as your therapist will be to create the structure best suited to facilitate your therapy process. The approach I use brings together the perspectives of expressive arts therapy, social work, and psychoanalysis, emphasizing whichever works best for you in any given session.
Clay is at the heart of the studio based work I do. Clay is dense, weighty, and malleable. Clay can become anything. Forms may be representational or abstract or somewhere in between; they may become fixed and permanent, be fired and even glazed, or be crushed and rolled back up in a ball
In addition to clay work, I offer other art materials and playful modalities, such as role play, movement exploration, story telling, and sand play, a nonverbal method for all ages, using sand and miniatures. All of these expressive modalities provide stress relief, stimulate the imagination, and through journaling and discussion, connect the intuitive and the logical sides of the brain.