Expressive Arts Coaching
Play sessions are tailored to you and whatever inquiry is front and center for you. We will supportively focus in on the specifics of your needs, be they related to trauma healing, spiritual awakening, creative embodiment, creative work, or another topic!
About Experientials and Creative Play in Sessions
At first blush, a lot of people find the idea of using the arts in sessions intimidating. It can bring up a host of fears and bad memories of past unsafe attempts to play, connect, or express ourselves.
In LionSong play sessions, we will only use safe, exploratory, non-threatening and gentle experiential approaches that activate resources for grounded joy and liveliness in your body, heart, mind and (if you resonate) spirit.
I may have ideas for what we could do together, but you will always be in charge of how extensively to bring the arts and somatic explorations in. We will take it slow to build safety and good feelings.
We will use a combination of traditional talk therapy methods, creative experiential play, and trauma informed expressive arts therapy approaches, as fits for you, following the timing of your perfect unfolding.
To read a little more on how I approach play sessions, please browse the links below:
Healing Play Sessions for Adults
More about Trauma Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy from the very inspiring Dr. Cathy Malchiodi
My Background and Training
My professional background is in Counseling Psychology, Expressive Arts Therapy and workplace psychology coaching (teams, leadership, & organizations).
I have a Masters in Counseling Psychology and Expressive Arts Therapy from California Institute for Integral Studies. I worked as a supervised marriage and family therapist in clinical settings, with homeless children, incarcerated youth and their families, dual diagnosis adults, and in addictions treatment, as well as in private practice.
I also train and coach teams and leaders in the topic of Psychological Safety and creative work, in the workplace psychology frame.
I am currently deepening my embodied understanding of the connections between nature-based psycholotherapy, expressive arts therapy, and trauma informed practices.
In my Expressive Arts Coaching, I softly structure sessions around the context and need of the person or people in front of me, weaving talk, body-based tools and creative process experientials together fluidly.
What to Expect in Individual Sessions
Sessions are tailored to you. At the top of each session we’ll frame your creative and/or healing goals, then work together to cocreate solutions and help you embody them.
Sessions may use any and all of the arts that you might like to incorporate (music, drawing, movement, creative writing, etc) and may include take-a-way optional creative assignments for you to explore on your own time, if you like that.
Fees and Details
My fee for Expressive Arts Coaching is $144 per hourlong session. Sessions may also be booked for couples, families, children and creative collaborators.
If you live in the Santa Barbara area we have the option to meet in person for your session, otherwise sessions are held remotely over video or phone.