Creative arts therapists
and professional artists supporting mental health for all ages.
Because healing is both a science and an art, we do mental health care creatively.
Our work is especially relevant to those seeking embodied off-the-couch therapy, relationship connection, conflict resolution, and new pathways to healing beyond talk therapy.
Do I need to be artistic?
Clients do not need arts skill or experience to benefit from our services. We do not define “being creative” as being artistic, talented or expressive. Clients do need to be interested, though, in acclimating to participating in experiential activities - not just sitting and talking.
How we talk about creativity:
Reframing a worry so it feels workable
Finding a calmer way to respond in an argument
Turning a child’s meltdown into a game that resets the moment
Using humor or movement to de-escalate stress
Our Team of Therapists and Artists
We are artists who design participatory, socio-cultural, process-based services/projects and Licensed psychotherapists who specialize in creative arts therapies (currently dance/movement therapy, art therapy, expressive arts therapy and music therapy.
Our team intentionally designs
environments where:
Creativity is played with, and practiced, not judged nor as a measure of talent
Arts are used in process, not with a goal for product
Expression is invitational and nourished
Art is used as a tool for insight, regulation, and connection
Health and wellness are understood as collective, not just individual
The qualities to establish safety, trust, and confidentiality are actively and consistently cultivated.
Groups - Workshops - Intensives - Trainings
Specialties include:
anxiety . panic . trauma . depression . relationship conflict . perinatal mental health . parenting . grief . adhd . chronic pain . body-based distress . identity discrimination
We treat a variety of
mental health concerns
Restoring Creativity Muted by Stress to Move from Surviving to Thriving
Creativity is an innate capacity used to adapt, transform, and be resilient.
But it can become muted under stress, adversity, and mental health challenges.
And so, the heartbeat of our work is restoring creativity.
Healing isn’t just talking—it's doing
Engaging experiences invites body, mind, and spirit, making therapy active as well as reflective. Insight grows through embodied practice.
art-making . movement . role play . improv . mindfulness . poetry writing . narrative creation
Connection is human nature, cultivating it is our work.
We like to help reignite your pilot light when your imagination dims.
Our Model of Care
Therapists and artists may codesign a menu of accessible options, colead sessions or cotreat clients who choose to shift between clinical and non-clinical services as needed.
Why Creativity Belongs in Therapy
Humans are innately creative. Long before we had clinical language for emotion, trauma, or attachment, we used movement, rhythm, storytelling, image-making, and play to regulate, connect, and heal. Creativity is not an add-on to wellness—it is foundational to how humans process experience and make meaning.
Talk Therapy alone can be less effective for some.
Traditional talk therapy alone can unintentionally privilege verbal fluency, cognitive insight, and linear narratives.
Arts-based interventions offer multiple pathways for communication when words are unavailable, unsafe, or insufficient.
Health Benefits of the Creative Process
Research shows for individuals:
reduced stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms . nervous system stabilization . enhanced cognitive flexibility . increased self-efficacy and self-esteem . trauma recovery.
Relationally:
creativity strengthens connection, communication, meaning-making, and resilience
We believe mental health care should be a place where marginalized identities are respected, protected, and celebrated.
We are an LGBTQIA-affirming, anti-racist therapy practice committed to dignity, safety, and equity in mental health care.
Our clinicians are trained in culturally responsive, identity-affirming and trauma-informed care for people of all backgrounds.
We provide care to individuals, couples, and families across the full spectrum of identities, beliefs, and lived experiences.
We prioritize participation over perfection, collective wellbeing over individual achievement, agency and choice over compliance, and imagination as a catalyst for social repair.
Values Important
to Us at AiC
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Serving the Greater Philadelphia region. In-person therapy in Hatboro, PA. Ecotherapy in Lancaster, PA. Tele-therapy PA statewide.
Community arts services available in Northeast Region of U.S.