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Befriending Pain with Expressive Arts Therapy
🌿 Expressive Arts Therapy Supervision Groups – Fall Openings! 🌿 In our recent group, we explored pendulating and titrating pain through a nature-based expressive arts process — learning to move gently between discomfort and soothing with creativity and compassion. ✨ Our session began with a guided visualization and grounding meditation, inviting each participant to connect […]
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Maiden, Mother, Crone
🎭 Maiden, Mother, Crone — Reframed Beyond the Binary 👥 In March (2nd Fri) & April (1st Fri), we’ll explore the Maiden, Mother, Crone concept & how theoretical models can guide deeper therapeutic explorations. We’ll use Feminist theory to deconstruct archetypes, psychosocial theory, & Jungian shadow work bridged with IFS language to take it beyond […]
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Finding Release with Expressive Arts Therapy
“How does a release happen? What tells us that release or shedding of layers has occurred?” A colleague recently asked me this question bringing the pause needed to try to find the words to explain the internal shifting I experience through my personal engagement in expressive arts practices. I believe knowing a release or shift […]
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From Art, Words Emerged
🎭 From art, the words emerged. A patchwork-colored mask of my face, no distinct features emphasized. I couldn’t risk choosing the “wrong” face. The head opens to reveal two figures playing patty cake. “It feels like people playing patty cake in my head. I don’t know the rules or how to play the game.” In […]
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Ecocentric Polyvagal EXAT
🌿 Expressive Arts Therapy Supervision Groups – 2026 Openings! 🌿 In our recent group, we explored anchoring to natural rhythms through an ecocentric polyvagal expressive arts therapy approach. I offered an ecocentric reframe for the polyvagal ANS Wheel moving into what I call polyvagal flow. Paths for integrating this model with current theoretical approaches were […]
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Spring Equinox Expressive Arts Group
💥 We’re happy to announce an in-person expressive arts group for the Spring Equinox. Nature-based expressive arts are a perfect fit for honoring renewal and rebirth. Co-hosted by:✨ Sarah Newton Penston – Author of Elemental Healing: Guided Therapy Journal, expressive arts arts therapist, licensed professional counselor and trauma specialist✨ Melissa Stephenson – Spiritual life coach, […]
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Ladder out of Burnout
Climb the ladder out of burnout with Expressive Arts, Movement, Sound, & Breath We all face burnout at some point and need strategies to help us climb the ladder back to our desired state of being. A monthly expressive arts therapy group focused on movement & somatic therapy. Explore expressive movement as a form of […]
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Bilateral Art Flow
Expressive Arts Therapy Open Studio Group A monthly expressive arts therapy group focused on bilateral art making. Bilateral art provides a multi-sensory experience that can provide release, flow, synchrony, & entrainment. Explore expressive art making with movement and music. Groups will consist of standing movement, art making, visual journal prompt, and discussion. Monthly groups for […]
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