WHO
Our artists, who we also call therapeutic arts practitioners, are socially engaged creators, educators, and facilitators dedicated to supporting mental health through creative practice. They use storytelling, music, movement, sound, spoken word poetry, and drawing as pathways to healing, resilience, and connection—centering the creative process as a universal tool for deepening relationships with ourselves, with one another, and with our communities.

These are artists who:

• are therapeutically informed / healing-oriented

• work in relationship with therapists

• support mental health, wellness, and community care

• hold ethical, trauma-informed space without claiming therapy

HOW

Within Arts in Counseling services, our artists design creative spaces that emphasize process over product and curiosity over performance. These environments invite experimentation, reflection, and relational risk-taking—key elements of therapeutic change.

Rooted in trauma-informed community care and social consciousness, our artists center vulnerability, empathy, and expression as sources of collective strength. Through individual and family therapeutic arts sessions, as well as group workshops, intensives, and trainings, they foster growth and transform personal and shared stories into connection and possibility.