Therapy on the Creative Edge.

Hello dear human beings,

I’m a creative arts psychotherapist interested in a non-dualistic, non-linear, and subconscious (DREAM REALM) container with highly-attuned and aware clients. Overachievers, overthinkers, people pleasers… it’s a chronic epidemic in this day-and-age. Im not here to minimize or undermine your unique healing journey. On the contrary, I’m looking to work with individuals who feel they have lost their steam, their balance, their magic, and just need a few guided whole-body tweaks. Not one second of your time wasted with uncomfortable small talk.

The words “creative arts” can come off as jarring. Many people love the arts, and yet there are many blindspots bringing them into a health-based practice. And, before I show you which arts modalities would challenge and soothe you best, I’d ask you a few simple questions to assess your current state of being.  There are streams of new neuroscientific research highlighting concepts such as pacing, balance, logic, emotion, sensitivity, and sensuality directly related to biopsychosocial-related issues of complacency in this life, and uncontrollably reacting to various societal pressures. Maybe you did not grow up attending art shows, dance shows, plays, musicals, et. al; however, did you ever stop and stare at a tree and just admire it’s shape, color, how it interacts with the wind?

So many doctors offices are cold, full of flourescent lighting, and run by a quick, capitalist design. I appreciate the charts, grids, and cyclical (non-linear) designs of many medical models in journals by practitioners who don’t subscribe to linear healing, and there are many! Though from a ‘timeline hopping’ ‘beginning of time’ historical perspective, as a collective, I now know from trauma trainings, the medical model in the United States never intended to include mental health in the bigger picture – hence the cold, sterile, quick in-and-out capitalist doctors visits that feel dull and impersonal. Now there are many breakthroughs where mental health is returning to it’s rightful home. A Whole-Body approach in Western medicine. A place of safety where stigma can become a discriminate contradiction of yesteryear. Where your body can already tell your practitioner a story, the moment you step into their office.

‘Layers’ is a fascinating theme and a jumping point for explaining my framework. Psychotherapy is an intimate, strategic, and specially curated place. It’s no one size fits all. When I say I’m a non-dualistic therapist, this can be perceived as rejecting black & white thinking which is a component I’ve absorbed from DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy) working many years in a clinical, public hospital setting. The elements in which we inhabit are black & white, but the people who encompass these places are not so simple. The biggest layer-theme that comes to mind is the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious layers of the human psyche. For this psyche to ooze energy, take form, and guide us in our daily actions, behaviors, and defense mechanisms, psychotherapy provides the landscape to return to the preverbal states of our childhood development.

Stick around for my next article on how and which Creative Arts modalities incorporate the Whole-Body in a comprehensible well-designed way.

So Much Love,

Rebecca