We view creativity as an innate human capacity—part of how minds and bodies keep balance. We honor diverse cultural lineages that treat creativity not just as self-expression, but as a way to restore connection — with self, others, and places. People don’t need to “be artistic” to benefit from creative processes. We need spaces and trusted relationships that are safe, curious, and collaborative. Healing happens here. Within the practice of creative arts therapies, we know that we cannot create and analyze at the same time; they’re different processes. But we must do both - diligently and playfully - to heal and thrive.
In all of your uniqueness, without fear of judgment or discrimination, we invite you to embrace vulnerability and courage as you freely explore possibilities, in your therapy work, to build lasting health and a community at Arts in Counseling.
Our Philosophy
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.
Traditional talk therapy alone can unintentionally privilege verbal fluency, cognitive insight, and linear narratives. Arts-based interventions widen access to healing by engaging the body, imagination, nervous system, and relational dynamics. They offer multiple pathways for expression, particularly when words are unavailable, unsafe, or insufficient.
Creative processes:
Support nervous system regulation
Allow symbolic and nonverbal expression
Increase emotional flexibility and agency
Strengthen relational attunement and play
Foster meaning-making and integration
Why Art-Making Spaces Are Inherently Therapeutic
Art-making spaces—when held with intention, consent, and care—are naturally therapeutic. They invite curiosity instead of performance, process instead of product, and connection instead of isolation. These spaces encourage experimentation, risk-taking, and reflection, all of which mirror core therapeutic goals.
At Arts in Counseling, we reject the false divide between “therapy spaces” and “creative spaces.” Healing happens when creativity is honored as a legitimate mode of knowing, relating, and restoring wholeness.
Our Team & Approach
Our team is composed of artists and clinicians who are deeply community-minded, healing-oriented, and committed to collective wellness. We understand art-making not only as individual expression, but as a relational and communal practice—one that can strengthen belonging, resilience, and shared care.
We intentionally design environments where:
Creativity is welcomed, not judged
Expression is invitational, not extractive
Art is used as a tool for insight, regulation, and connection
Wellness is understood as collective, not just individual
Change begins with the ability to imagine alternatives. “We cannot create what we can't imagine”.
Lucille Clifton
We are an interdisciplinary team of Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors/Creative Arts Therapists, Artists, and Integrative Health Practitioners working collaboratively to improve mental health and wellbeing.
We offer group, family, couples and individual creative arts therapies, psychotherapy, organizational contracts plus wellness arts-based workshops and mindfulness coaching.
Our Approach
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Healing doesn’t only happen by talking about experiences, but by engaging with them—through ie: art-making, movement, improv, mindfulness and creative expression. Participation invites the body, mind, and spirit into the process, making therapy not just reflective but active. This balance of doing and processing allows insight to grow alongside lived, embodied practice.
We prioritize practicing through participation in addition to processing.
We care about healing individuals in ways that strengthen our collective
well-being and communities at large.
We embrace collectivism—the understanding that our liberation, health, and thriving are interconnected - and that our systems significantly influence our health.
Connection is human nature, cultivating it is our work.
We help clients make small pivots to connect with themselves, and others, differently. We like to help reignite your pilot light when your imagination dims.