Art Journaling is a sweet place to find what is waiting to be expressed, explored, and enjoyed.  We love to offer this space in a variety of ways.
This group is a space of exploration of tools and art mediums, as well as a way to allow yourself to settle into a creative space and practice that supports your specific needs and desires. Art making tends to lead us to places that bring up meaning, feelings of joy and peace, playfulness and curiosity, and offer support for parts of us that are hurting. We hope you will join us for this expansive experience.

Art & DBT for Teens

Many teens struggle with waves of intense emotions and intrusive thoughts that get in the way of doing the things they want to do in life.

This can be for a variety of reasons (home, school, friends, trauma).

This group provides a Art Therapy based approach to distress tolerance skills to explore the power of the nervous system to get through hard moments. In this group, each teen will create and practice skills with artmaking that help them notice their resources.

This group can be supportive for:

  • Ongoing anxiety
  • Depression
  • PTSD
  • Ongoing stress
  • Intrusive thoughts
  • Suicide ideation

If you would like your teen to sign up for this group, please reach out for a free 10 minute consultation to see if it could be a good fit.

A 30 min. intake with Noel ($100) is required of all participants for assessment and safety purposes.

  • Time: 6 weeks, 1 hour each
  • Cost: $85/session; or $510 total
    • This group has a one time $20 supply cost. Once you sign up, we will charge you for supplies to hold your spot.

Led by Noel D’Avy LPC, Expressive Art Therapist

2023 Upcoming Dates

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    Art Journaling for Teens

    Art Therapy is a fun and supportive modality for teens and offers a unique space for many developmental and emotional needs. Creating is a need because it supports our brain in processing and expressing information that can get stuck on repeat and feel overwhelming. Once we spill out the content, there is alot of freedom and room to discover what is there and make sense of it, as well as feel relief.

    This 6 week group is an intro to Art Journaling that offers your teen space to explore and experiment with art tools and prompts to support their daily life!

    Each person will get a new art journal and will learn ways to use it that fit their specific unique creative and emotional needs.

    Time: 6 weeks, 1 hour each

    • Cost: $85/session; or $510 total
      • This group has a one time $20 supply cost. Once you sign up, we will charge you for supplies to hold your spot.

    Led by Noel D’Avy LPC, Expressive Art Therapist

    2023 Upcoming Dates

    TEENS – Ages 14 – 17 (Grade 9 – 12):

    • Wednesdays:
      • Sep 27 – Nov 1 | 4:00 pm

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      Art Journaling for Grief

      Grief is a complex layered process and often feels dark and endless.

      This Art Journaling group gives some space and tools to the non-verbal needs of grief. Each week, there will be room to explore and express pieces of grief that relate and allow them space to be emptied out into an art journal. No creative experience is required for this process oriented group.  The goal is not to leave with something pretty and finished, but to give space for grief to be expressed and validated.

      Time: 6 weeks, 1 hour each

      • Cost: $85/session; or $510 total
        • This group has a one time $20 supply cost. Once you sign up, we will charge you for supplies to hold your spot.

      Led by Noel D’Avy, Expressive Art Therapist

      2023 Upcoming Dates

      • Wednesdays:
        • Jun 21 – Aug 2 | 5:00 pm

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        Art Journaling for Addiction Recovery

        This 4-week group will make space for anyone working through addiction recovery. Each group will learn and orient to a specific part of recovery work and then take time to create in response to that part. Art journaling is accessible for any skill level or interest (no need to be an “artist” to join). This process naturally allows for increased distress tolerance and shame resilience: two important factors in sustainable and successful recovery.

        The four weeks will explore:

        • Radical Honesty
        • Craving & Ritual
        • Relapse & Failure
        • Sobriety & Connection

        We will explore the addiction cycle, relapse cycle, and the recovery cycle to notice the many ways that this reality happens and how it impacts us and the people we love. This group is not specific to a certain kind of addiction – but instead open to anyone that is being honest about their compulsive & ongoing numbing behaviors and curious about showing up differently. This group won’t be structured like a typical 12-step recovery meeting. Expect to come and be curious about your addiction & recovery and explore, notice, give room for, and create the ways these things show up in your felt experience.

        Time:

        6 weeks, 1 hour each

        • Cost: $85/week; or $510 total
          • This group has a one time $20 supply cost. Once you sign up, we will charge you for supplies to hold your spot.

        Led by Brittany Johnson LPC, Registered Art Therapist

        2023 Upcoming Dates

        • Fridays:
          • Sep 8 – Sep 29 | 11:00 am

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