Creative
Expression

The Process: If you want to do short expressive art exercises in your therapy session, I am happy to facilitate this. However, it should be noted that what I offer is different from art therapy. Typically, an art therapist would facilitate a quiet art-making session for most of your therapy hour, and you would talk about what you created near the end of the session.

 

The sessions that I offer as a Depth and Focusing Oriented therapist typically invites more right-brained verbal sharing than a typical art therapy session by going into the body in a slow and contemplative way.

 

The main purpose of felt-sense creativity and right-brained verbal sharing is to stay in deep contact with your inner experience as much as possible. I can facilitate short spontaneous art exercises (as needed) to tap into your deeper subconscious/unconscious mind through your bodily felt-sense to help you maintain inner contact. 

 

Focusing can be done with or without art making, and is often done with the eyes closed. If you are creative, it is possible to go deep into your bodily felt-sense and access your inner symbols through your imagination - and share them verbally. See starting a Focusing Journal.

 

If you prefer art making to talking, I can guide you through short expressive arts exercises to help you tap into your right brain/feeling body and deepen your understanding of your current growth edge.

 

I will offer gentle suggestion to keep you connected to your right brain and your intuitive/feeling body unless you request quietude. You will be invited to speak from your right-body-brain as you create and process how what you have created relates to your life. 

 

Expressive Arts Exercises: A creative session might include a simple collage, poetry, painting, or drawing exercise and then some in-depth felt-sense talking about how your art resonates with your current life. You can let me know what art mediums and methods feel best for you, but all the creative invitations I offer do not require prior art or writing experience. I aim to facilitate a connection to what feels stuck inside and encourage a fresh understanding of your emerging growth edge.

 

Art Materials: Please bring a pen, journal, sketchbook, or paper. Also, bring three magazines, a glue stick, scissors, black and coloured markers, oil pastels, watercolour paints, brushes, and water.

 

Typically, in a creative session, we can explore your higher vision for your life and what is holding you back or blocking you from actualizing it by sensing first into your body. We can explore a deeper connection to the emerging growth edge that is trying to arise from what feels stuck or stopped within through my method of "felt-sense" drawing, painting and collage. See Focusing Oriented Therapy. 

 

All expressive art sessions are done on Zoom.

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