Exploring Emotions Through Creativity and Expression
Art Therapy in Abbotsford & Online Across BC
Using Art Therapy to Explore What Words Cannot
Adults, Children & Youth
Working with art in sessions, sometimes in between sessions, as a symbolic representation of your feelings.
Art therapy offers another way to gently access what’s been held beneath the surface.
Not everything we carry has words.
Some experiences - especially those from early in life or moments of emotional impact - are held in images, sensations, and feelings.
When this happens, it can be difficult to fully express or process them through talking alone.
You might feel stuck, overwhelmed, or find certain patterns or reactions repeating without fully understanding why.
Through simple, guided art-making, we create space for these deeper layers to emerge in a way that feels safe, supported, and at your pace.
This isn’t about making something “good” or focusing on the final product.
It’s about the process, the movement, the expression, and what begins to unfold as you create.
You’ll be gently supported in exploring what arises,
so these experiences can begin to feel more integrated, understood, and no longer carried in the same way.
You don’t need to be an artist to engage in art therapy.
There’s no right or wrong way to do this - just a willingness to be curious about what might emerge.
Art therapy offers a creative, non-verbal way to explore your inner world using images, colour, and movement as a bridge to deeper understanding.
You might find Art Therapy helpful if…
you’re feeling overwhelmed and don’t know where to begin
you’re grieving and words don’t feel like enough
you have difficulty expressing or naming what you feel
you tend to be hard on yourself or afraid of making mistakes
there are parts of your story that feel too painful to talk about
you’re longing to understand yourself more deeply
or you simply feel curious about exploring in a different way
… and so much more.
Some of my art therapy services include, but not limited to:
Directive Art Therapy:
Guided and directed by our team based on the initial intake assessment and goal setting. Sometimes art is offered as an assessment tool. It can range from something small and simple that can be created during session to a bigger project that stretches over several sessions.
Create a symbolic picture of their present feeling you are struggling with
Body Mapping
Vision Board
PhotoTherapy
Non-Directive Art Therapy:
Open, client-centered without prescribed steps, accessing your subconscious and right-brain creativity and expression.
Sometimes there may be an experience in session where it makes more sense to illustrate it through art-making. In this case, I may invite you to non-directive Art Therapy.
Open Studios
Art Therapy Groups & Workshops:
An opportunity to connect, create and reflect on who you are both individually and collectively as a group and look deeper within.
Community workshops are where compassion, creativity, and connection intersect. Discover the power of Art Therapy, engage in meaningful discussions, and cultivate a supportive network of like-minded individuals.
Custom tailored groups brought to your organization