Provider: Lindsay Edwards
Clientele: Adults, any gender, living with anxiety and/or OCD
Where:
When: Wednesdays, 10-11am
Duration: 10-session weekly group cycles
Cost: $50/session
Description: OCD and Anxiety can disconnect us from our bodies, and disrupt our nervous systems. Process your fears and worries while practicing somatic strategies that help you trust yourself and others. You will acclimate to leaning into vulnerability, so that you can relax the need for perceived control. The goal is to live in your body, mind, and spirit as comfortably and intentionally as you wish to live in your idealized home.

This group is for adults living with anxiety and OCD. Each week, you’ll use embodiment/movement to safely meet anxious sensations, practice ERP-informed micro-exposures with response prevention, and build tolerance for uncertainty—“maybe yes, maybe no”—while moving toward what matters to you. Sessions blend grounding warm-ups, brief skills teaching, guided exposure practice, and supportive reflection, with simple between-session practices to keep progress going. You’ll learn to notice urges without judgement or accommodation, calm without avoiding, and translate gains into values-based actions in everyday life. The tone is structured, compassionate, and practical; confidentiality and ground-rules help protect the work. No movement/somatic experience required.

Notes: Please propose other times that work for you if Wed from 10-11 are not conducive.

Note: You can join this training as an individual! We’re all in “relationships” whether it is with neighbors, coworkers, bosses, family or romantic partners. Your “partner(s)” of whatever type do not need to attend with you, but are welcome to.
Providers: Lindsay Edwards and Douglas Paulson
Clientele: Adults
Where: Arts in Counseling
Intensive Format: A Saturday/Sun combo on the 3rd weekend of every other month. Both Sat 2-6pm & Sun 10am-2pm.
Private Series Format: Schedule a private series for your personal relationship, business partnership, employee team, etc.
Cost: $475 for our Intensive format. Private Series Format cost is dependent on group size, dynamics and goals.
Description: Being in relationships requires improvisation and creativity! We continually run this series to develop skills in communication, relationship building, and conflict resolution. This is a participatory experience that uses games, improv, therapy skills, and group dynamic theories. We emphasize emotional safety, consent, and playful co-creation. You will become familiar with being vulnerable, and we have witnessed that the outcomes are worth the risk! You are welcome to join the group version, or request the series as a singular couple or triad. The series is sequential and progressive, so the highest value is gained by attending each session. You can repeat the full series any time, because a new group of people always means new practice and further skill development.

Provider: Lindsay Edwards. Douglas Paulson will join if needed based on family size and child ages.
Who: Family units of any make-up.
Where: Arts in Counseling
When: This series can be requested by a family unit and will be scheduled in coordination with family and AiC staff.
Duration: 8-session series. Frequency determined according to scheduling availability and therapeutic needs.
Cost: Family counseling rate of $275/session.
Description: This experiential family therapy workshop series is designed for families seeking growth, reconnection, or enhanced communication outside of traditional family therapy. Using ie: team-based activities, movement, arts, roleplay, and group storytelling, families learn how to show up for each other with empathy, curiosity, and responsiveness. The process supports families in co-creating new patterns of trust, conflict repair, and emotional expression through shared experience.

Provider: Lindsay Edwards
Clientele: Expectant and new fathers of infants under one year old
Where: Telehealth & In-person at Arts in Counseling
When: The series meets Mondays from 6-7:30pm. Telehealth or in-person depending on group’s desire.
Duration: 11-session program format
Cost: $50 per session. $550 total
Description: For Expectant or Current Fathers. “Program P” ("P" for "Padre" and "Pai" in Spanish and Portuguese, respectively, meaning "Father") is a direct and targeted response to the need for concrete strategies and action steps to engage men in active fatherhood globally from pregnancy. Program P is a resource developed as part of the global MenCare campaign coordinated by Promundo and the Sonke Gender Justice Network. It helps fathers effectively and meaningfully engage in maternal and child health, caregiving, and preventing violence against women and children, through the lens of gender equality. Program P is a compilation of interconnected evidence-based strategies and action steps designed to reshape men’s confidence in their caregiving skills; critically question issues around masculinity, violence and fatherhood; promote communication between couples and their children; and offer guidance and useful tools on engaging men more equitably.
Notes: “Fatherhood” is more than simple biology; it manifests itself through the quality and depth of the caregiving connection men have with children. Therefore, this program more widely defines and welcomes “Fathers” as: Single-parent households, Households with resident and non-resident family members, Biological fathers who live with their children, Biological fathers who are non-custodial parents, Same-sex parents, Households with foster parents, step-parents and grandparents, Non-biological fathers: uncles, brothers, teachers, coaches, and stepfathers can have profoundly positive relationships with children.

Provider: Emiley Alison for telehealth workshops and Lindsay Edwards for in-person workshops
Clientele: Adults, unless there is a teen-specific group advertised.
Where: Telehealth or at Arts in Counseling. We also offer tween and teen Tuning into Empathy Workshops site-specifically according to organizations’ requests. If you’d like to book this workshop for your school, business, church, non-profit, Scout troop, etc, contact us!
When: TBD
Duration:1.5 hours in-person and 1 hour telehealth. Workshops reoccur often and each is unique. You can attend once, or as many times as you like.
Cost: $50 per session
Description: Learn and experience a fully present listening practice that you can bring into your daily life and work. Experience genuine connection through the power of sharing personal stories and reflecting what you hear through emotionally intelligent non-verbal expression. These workshops are wonderful for nourishing burnout, improving conflict resolution, and enhancing communication skills. We use methods from psychotherapy, dance/movement therapy, and improvisational theater.

These workshops build off of the Embodied Empathy work of Anne & Christopher Ellinger, which was derived from Playback Theater.

A PDF Guide authored by the Ellingers will be provided for each “Tuning into Empathy” group participant.

Provider: Lindsay Edwards
Clientele: Adults. Movers or anyone who wants to move things out and witness others in movement expression.
Where: Arts in Counseling
When: 2nd Thursday of every month from 6:30-7:30pm.
Cost: $50
Description: A nurturing self-initiated movement group. This group is open to everyone and is especially disability friendly. You do not need to consider yourself a “mover” and you don’t need “rhythm”.

Arts in Counseling’s Movement Vitamin: Authentic Movement Workshop is a simple, formulaic process that you will be taught during each group. Essentially, you have a chance to move naturally and improvisatorially, following your internal impulses and compass while being witnessed by another. Depending on how you’re feeling in the moment, your movement, emotions and sounds may vary from tiny and subtle to expansive and loud. A verbal exchange is then shared by mover and witness about the experience. Next, you shift roles and witness becomes mover. Authentic Movement continues to evolve as a practice of deep inner listening, reverent witnessing, and embodied remembrance—a bridge between inner truth and collective healing.
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Authentic Movement Roots and Lineage: Authentic Movement, as it is known today, arises from a deep, timeless impulse: the body moving from within, witnessed in silence and presence. Long before it was named or systematized, this practice was alive in Indigenous and ancestral traditions across the globe. From the ritual dances of West African griots to the trance movements of the Kalahari San, from the embodied prayer of Indigenous North and South American ceremonies to the sacred gestural languages of Balinese and Pacific Islander rituals—humans have always turned to spontaneous, intentional movement as a form of healing, expression, and spiritual connection. In the mid-20th century, Mary Starks Whitehouse, trained in modern dance and Jungian analysis, brought these ancient ways into dialogue with Western psychotherapy. She emphasized “movement that arises from the unconscious,” a process she simply called “movement in depth.” Her student, Janet Adler, later gave this practice the name Authentic Movement, shaping it into a relational discipline rooted in non-judgmental witnessing and contemplative presence. Adler brought forth the spiritual and therapeutic dimensions of the work, integrating it with mysticism, somatics, and psychological inquiry. Contemporary practitioners—including Joan Chodorow, Tina Stromsted, and a growing number of BIPOC dance/movement therapists—are now expanding the field by reclaiming and reweaving the threads of its ancestral origins. Today, Authentic Movement continues to evolve as a practice of deep inner listening, reverent witnessing, and embodied remembrance—a bridge between inner truth and collective healing.

Provider: Emiley Allison
Clientele: Emerging adults (age 20 - 30), any gender
Where: Telehealth
Duration: 10-session weekly group cycles
Cost: $50/session
Description: A group designed for emerging adults that are seeking to begin to explore the emotional feelings and/ or wounds related to their families. The work of the group will highlight connecting with the inner child to understand the impact of early relationships.

Core topic ideas: understanding/ defining the concept of “inner child,” family of origin dynamics, identifying emotional wounds, reparenting, understanding our internal narrative, managing what trust, safety, and emotional regulation looks like in adulthood, boundaries, grief/ grieving unmet childhood needs, reclaiming voice/ compassion for self.

Provider: Gina Cardillo
Clientele: Seniors
Where: Arts in Counseling
When: Weekly on Thursdays 12pm-1pm
Cost: $50
Description: This is an art therapy group for Seniors. Use art-making and conversation to process what’s on your mind - from health, grandkids, grief etc.

Provider: Kathleen Metzker
Who: Ages 16-seniors
Where: Arts in Counseling
When: TBD
Duration: A 1-day six-hour intensive
Cost: $175
Description: Brave Presence is a mindfulness intensive designed for those who want more than stress relief — it’s for those ready to meet life’s challenges with clarity, courage, and compassion. Rooted in the principles of mindfulness, this immersive experience weaves meditation, somatic practices, and mindful dialogue into a concentrated day of practice and reflection.

This intensive offers a deep dive into how we stay grounded and embodied when things get difficult — in our relationships, our work, and within ourselves. Through guided practices, experiential exercises, and real-time applications, participants will explore:

• Responding to conflict without reactivity

• Communicating with both compassion and boundaries

• Meeting discomfort with resilience rather than avoidance

• Staying connected and present in moments of tension or uncertainty

The day is structured as a blend of practice, teaching, and dialogue, giving participants space to experience mindfulness in action and to reflect on how these tools can support their daily lives.

Whether you are a leader, caregiver, activist, or simply someone seeking to live more fully and honestly, Brave Presence offers a supportive space to cultivate emotional resilience, embodied awareness, and relational wisdom.

This intensive isn’t about becoming perfect or peaceful — it’s about practicing how to show up with your whole self in the moments that matter most.

Provider: Kathleen Metzker
Who: Adults
Where: Arts in Counseling
When: TBD
Duration: A 3-hour retreat
Cost: $85
Description: A restorative space to reconnect, soften, and return to yourself.

Join us for a nourishing afternoon of gentle movement, stillness, and deep inner listening as we explore what it means to practice radical self-love — not as a concept, but as a lived, embodied experience.

This retreat is a space to slow down and reconnect with the wisdom of your body.

Through gentle yoga, guided mindfulness, breathwork, and the deep rest of yoga nidra, we’ll cultivate a sense of safety, softness, and self-compassion from the inside out.

There is nothing to fix or perfect — only a chance to remember that you are already whole.

This experience is open to all bodies and all levels of experience. Whether you’re feeling depleted, disconnected, or simply in need of spaciousness, this afternoon retreat is an invitation to come home to yourself — with kindness, curiosity, and care.

What’s Included:

• Gentle yoga to awaken and soothe the body

• Mindfulness practices for present-moment awareness and self-connection

• Breathwork to regulate the nervous system and invite emotional release

• Yoga nidra (guided rest) to support deep restoration and integration

• Space for quiet reflection, journaling, and optional sharing

The Goal is to Leave With:

•  A more compassionate relationship with yourself

• Practices to continue self-love and self-regulation at home

• A felt sense of wholeness, grounding, and ease