Healing, Art and Play
LionSong is a space for healing, playing, and making our creative work, so that we can embody our authentic Selves and reclaim the planet together.
LionSong’s intention is to support people to develop a loving relationship with their Inner Wild - the wilderness within that is big, pristine & free.
LionSong shares ideas and experiential prompts you can use to heal your wounds, explore your creativity, and recover your natural Self.
Sound and Music Most of All
LionSong plays with all of the Expressive Arts modalities (Dance Movement, Music, Visual Arts, Performance + Writing), and Music most of all.
To read more about using Music-based approaches as a Music beginner, see my posts on Reclaiming Music, Music Therapy and Developing Musicality.
Bookable Services
You can book facilitated Expressive Arts sessions for help with psychological healing, creativity, and embodiment.
I also offer LionSong groups for Expressive Arts play experiences with others.
Psychotherapy, Expressive Arts, & the Collective
This site and its associated services are stewarded by me, Holly Mae Haddock.
My professional background is in counseling psychology, expressive arts therapy, and creative work coaching in organizations. I use my skills to help people heal, play, and do their deepest, most meaningful work.
LionSong Process is for people drawn to experiencing personal and collective healing through experimenting with play processes in the arts.
Biography
I grew up on an organic farm in Lompoc, California. I lived in London, Milan, the SF Bay Area, Detroit, Berlin, San Diego, and Portland before returning to the Santa Barbara area.
I earned my Bachelors in Fine Art from UC Berkeley, majoring in painting, and my Masters in Counseling Psychology and Expressive Arts Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
I worked for 6+ years in a psychotherapist role in clinical settings, and 11+ years as a coach, teacher and facilitator in organizations.
I live in Santa Barbara, California, with my husband Didi and my cat Wendy.
My Creative Practices
I studied painting in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley.
My main creative practice is folk music, under the name Team Bright. In the past I had a band called Holly Mae and the Painted Room.
For experimental play or healing reasons I occasionally make meditation music, Parts Work pop songs, singalong chants, and improvised exploratory folk songlets called lionsongs.
I also do improv, dance movement for fun, write poems as medicine, and visual arts journaling.