Long before there was psychotherapy, people used movement, music, image-making, storytelling and other creative practices to express what mattered, communicate what was difficult to put into words, pass knowledge between generations, and make meaning together.

Arts in Counseling carries those deeply human practices into how we care for mental health today.

Founded by Lindsay Edwards, MA, LPC, BC-DMT, Arts in Counseling brings together psychotherapy, creative arts therapies and community-based arts experiences.

Lindsay began her career as a dancer and choreographer, later working in dance administration before becoming a board-certified dance/movement therapist and licensed psychotherapist. Her career eventually brought her into community healthcare, where she directed a Creative Arts Therapies department within a Philadelphia Federally Qualified Health Center. Across these roles, the arts have remained a constant—not only as forms of expression, but as ways of relating, communicating, understanding and caring for one another.

That history informs AiC’s work today. Our work is rooted in traditions that understand people in context: shaped by relationships, family histories, transgenerational and cultural traditions, identities, communities, and the dominant and popular cultures we live within.

As mental health care has become increasingly individualized, AiC is interested in widening the frame. We want creativity to help us understand ourselves—but also to connect us to one another.

We’re building a model of mental health care where art-making can support treatment, expression, connection and insight throughout the lifespan—and help strengthen the ties between people, generations and communities.

Creativity has always been part of how humans tend to one another.