Approximately 50 crayon markers and colored pencils spread out on a grey table, displaying a variety of bright, vivid colors in no particular order.

Art Therapy

Express, Explore, Heal


Art therapy helps you access feelings, memories, and experiences that can be difficult to put into words. Through drawing, painting, or sculpting, you can explore emotions, gain insight, and connect with your inner self.

No artistic experience is required. Sessions focus on what emerges in the process and how creative expression can support reflection, growth, and healing within a safe, supportive therapeutic relationship.

A non-binary individual wearing a geometric wrap transforms a window into a patchwork of colorful tissue paper, creating a stained-glass effect.
Symbolic self-portrait artwork in a spiral form, with words radiating from the center to the edges, filled with rainbow colors. The spiral reflects the poem ‘All of Me,’ expressing the artist’s non-binary and pansexual identity, Jewish life, love, parenthood, and the integration of many aspects of self into a sacred whole.
A non-binary individual depicted in a pen-outline self-portrait, wearing a blindfold painted with bright, rainbow watercolors

Who Can Benefit

  • Teens, young adults, and adults
  • People processing trauma, anxiety, or depression
  • Those who find it hard to express emotions verbally
  • Individuals exploring identity, including LGBTQIA+ clients
  • People navigating life transitions or personal growth

Art therapy can be especially helpful for people who feel stuck in talk therapy, struggle to put feelings into words, or want a more experiential way to explore their inner world. Creativity opens new pathways for understanding, insight, and healing beyond verbal expression.

How It Works

In art therapy, creative activities are guided by your intentions, goals, and comfort level. You may work with drawing, painting, collage, clay, or other materials that feel meaningful to you.

Sessions include time for both creating and reflecting on your artwork. We explore what emerges in the process, including emotions, patterns, memories, and themes. Art therapy can be integrated with EMDR, narrative therapy, or mindfulness practices when appropriate, and sessions are paced to support safety and emotional regulation.

Benefits of Art Therapy

Art therapy may support many aspects of emotional and personal growth, including:

  • Greater emotional expression and release
  • Increased self-awareness and insight
  • Stress and anxiety reduction
  • Processing of difficult or overwhelming experiences
  • Strengthening your sense of identity and voice

Each person’s experience is unique, and benefits unfold over time through supported creative exploration.

Your Voice, Your Process

Art therapy honors your pace, your boundaries, and your way of expressing yourself. There is no right or wrong way to create, and you are never pressured to share more than feels comfortable.

Sessions offer a non-judgmental space to explore emotions, memories, and inner experiences through art. Your process is respected, and your voice remains at the center of the work.

Expressions of Healing

These images show how art therapy allows personal expression, insight, and growth through creative work. The artwork shared here was created by clients during their therapy process and is shared with permission. Each piece reflects moments of exploration, resilience, identity, and healing, and represents a personal process rather than a finished product.

A floor display of five paintings arranged together, each exploring the theme “war and peace.” Originally painted to represent peace, the artworks were then overpainted with chaotic, darker markings symbolizing war, and finally repainted to restore peace. The final pieces show a mix of calm imagery and traces of conflict, reflecting the creative process of moving from peace to war and back to peace.
A tri-fold page illustrating a tree’s life cycle. The first section shows a full, leafy tree; the second shows the tree cut at the stump; and the third shows the stump with new growth emerging. Under each tree, handwritten words convey what that specific stage of the tree is communicating to the client.
Six individual images, each representing a different archetype: “Rebel,” “Lover,” “Creator,” “Sage,” “Caregiver,” and “Innocent.” Each image visually conveys the essence or personality of its archetype through color, composition, and symbolic elements.
A handwritten poem expressing the experiences and emotions of being transgender, written in neat, personal script on a lined page.
A crumpled piece of paper with a drawing of a red heart pierced by a winding road. Below the illustration, the handwritten words read, “Not all who wander are lost.”
An outline of two hands side by side. The left hand is filled with words representing what the person wants to leave behind, and the right hand contains words representing what they want to bring more into their life.
Four painted rocks arranged in a compass pattern. The north rock is purple with “SELF LOVE” in all caps. The west rock is decorated with yellow, orange, pink, and red dots. The south rock shows bluebonnets at night on a black background. The east rock is black with the word “jollyfull” written on it.
A flower pot with dirt holding two heart-shaped pieces of seed paper, one red and one blue. The papers are inscribed with words about what the client loved about his dad and can be planted to grow into flowers.
Four colorful mason jars decorated with layers of tissue paper using Mod Podge. Each jar has handwritten words listing things the clients loved about people who have passed. A candle flickers inside each jar, casting a warm glow.
A child holding a painted rock with the word “forgiveness” written on it.
A colorful mountainside painted in watercolor, created while two famous poems were read. The painting blends vibrant colors to reflect the emotions and imagery of the poems.
A round collage made from magazine clippings, showing a stick-figure person with swirling hands and feet and a heart-shaped cutout in the torso, dancing in front of a vibrant rainbow-colored sky.