Healing, Art and Play
LionSong is a space for healing, playing, and making our creative work, so that we can be ourselves and reclaim the planet together.
LionSong’s intention is to support people to develop a loving relationship with their Inner Wild - the part 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 Practices
LionSong explores all the expressive arts modalities, but Sound and Music most of all, experiencing these as the deepest and most evocative language of connection and expression.
To read more about using sound and music-based practices and approaches for yourself as a non-musician, music beginner, or self-taught musician, start here with Reclaiming Music and/or explore my series on Music Therapy and my series on Developing Musicality.
Bookable Services
You can book expressive arts therapy sessions for help with trauma recovery, psychological healing and creative embodiment topics.
I also offer LionSong groups for healing, creative discovery, and therapeutic play experiences with others.
Psychotherapy, Expressive Arts, and Creative Collectives
This site and its associated services are stewarded by me, Holly Mae Haddock. My background is in counseling psychology, expressive arts therapy, and creative process coaching in organizations. I use my skills to help people heal, play, and do their deepest, most meaningful work.
This site, LionSong Process, is for people who are drawn to experiencing personal and collective healing play processes in the arts, whether in solo practice, or in creative collaborations and groups.
To read more about what I do in the domain of organizational psychology please check out my Creative Work Ecosystems site: hollymaehaddock.com
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.
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 art journaling.