Arts in Counseling integrates licensed psychotherapists and professional artists into a non-traditional model of mental health care.
Across clinical, community, and training settings, we use creative, embodied, and relational methods to support individuals, families, and organizations.
Creativity - an innate capacity for adaptation, transformation and resilience - can become muted under stress, adversity, and mental health challenges.
At the heartbeat of our work is the restoration of creativity, moving people from surviving to thriving.
Our work recognizes that healing happens not only within individuals, but also through relationships, shared spaces, and the collective practices that shape how we live together.
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How Do You Do It?
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.
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By Whom?
Artists who design participatory, socio-cultural, process-based services AND Licensed psychotherapists who specialize in creative arts therapies.
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Why We're Doing This
We creatively support mental health so innate creativity, muted by stress and adversity, can be restored and renlivened across individuals, families, and communities.
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For Whom?
Because creativity is a universal internal resource that we are all born with, AiC’s approach is applicable to everyone. Commonalities amongst are clients are…
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Our Services
Psychotherapy and therapeutic arts for ALL ages. Groups [therapy, support, workshops & trainings], supervision and organizational partnerships.
Why?
AiC views creativity as an innate human capacity—part of how minds and bodies keep balance. It is a universal tool for deepening connections, building strength & resilience, transforming pain, and directly improving our lives. We are committed to using creative methodologies to practice being in relationship more skillfully, with the intention that this relational work strengthens families and communities and supports collective mental health. We invite curiosity instead of performance, process instead of product, and connection instead of isolation.
Mental health depends on our brain’s innate creative systems to notice patterns, imagine options, and try new responses. When those systems are active, you regulate emotions better, solve problems, and connect with people more easily. Unfortunately, stress, anxiety, depression, etc. can dull our capacity to use it effectively. We’re committed to improving mental health so that our creative system can help us thrive rather than simply survive - aiding in health for individuals, families and communities.
How?
From a menu developed by our artists and creative arts psychotherapists, our team customizes client’s care to offer the most relevant and accessible starting point to treatment. Therapists and artists may codesign, colead and cotreat with HIPPA compliance as a core mandate. Clients can move between clinical and non-clinical offerings as needed. Services are offered in therapy offices, community settings, at eco-therapy sites and telehealth
By Whom?
Our psychotherapists deliver care through individual (all ages), couples, triads, family & group creative/expressive arts therapies (art therapy, dance/movement therapy, and music therapy). Our artists design participatory, relational services intended to generate positive impact for the greater good—often socially, environmentally, and through cause-based work. .Examples of their programs include: relationship improv intensives, reflective poetry writing sessions, mindfulness conflict-resolution groups and community partnered events.
For Whom?
Across the world, people use creativity to support social healing, relational repair, and reflection to improve the wellbeing of themselves and their communities. This work is for everyone. Commonalities amongst are clients are: enjoying active - off the couch - therapy; doers/makers; management leaders; community organizers; relationship self-helpers; people who have been through body-based traumas and early childhood trauma; clients who haven’t made break throughs in talk therapy.