Becoming awake to the world around us requires we are awake to the world within us. Trauma takes us away from the present moment in order to survive. This Art Therapy group is all about exploring how our bodies can move from surviving to thriving. [read more]Each week we will explore a different one of our senses alongside a creative process. By focusing on one sense (touch, smell, taste, movement, sound, and sight) we bring our body and mind into the present moment and bring more attention and awareness to how we are experiencing things that bring joy, play, creativity, and rest. Our senses are a potent way to engage our nervous system and pair well with art making. Come as you are and deepen what it feels like to ground with your senses.
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- Stronger mind/body connection
- Gather more tools that support you in your daily life
- Distress tolerance
- Increased present moment awareness
- Attunement to needs and desire
- More capacity to identify and feel joy or calm
- Playful and creative experiences[/expand]
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- Find yourself needing more resources to feel calm
- Struggle with anxiety and overthinking,
- Desire to feel calm in your body and/or mind
- Have difficulty being present / in the moment.
- Are wanting to do more trauma processing[/expand]
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“Do it! Stretch yourself! It’s worth it! You are worth it!”
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- Time: 6 weeks, 1 hour each
- Cost: $85/session; or $510 total
Signup confirmation includes one-time, nonrefundable $20 supply cost.[/expand]
Having emotions is part of the human experience. This work of moving through our emotions is deeply connected to the work of healing trauma. We swim in a culture that is full of emotional unhealth; receiving messages about our emotional experience that [read more] teach us to deny, repress, avoid, manipulate, blame, or heighten how we feel. In this group we will explore the value and function of emotions and reorient to emotions in a more expansive way. Join us as we untangle, identify and connect to our emotions with touch drawing. (No “art skills” needed to participate!)
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- Understanding the function of emotions
- Increasing emotional health and intelligence
- Expanding language and expression of emotions
- Differentiation between emotional states
- Increased distress tolerance[/expand]
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- Struggle to express emotions
- Have limited emotional experiences
- Often repress or avoid emotions
- Have fear or judgment around expressing emotions
- Feel confused or overwhelmed often[/expand]
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“This group felt safe and creative. I was able to just create and have fun and be able to release the negative and create from a positive place.”[/expand]
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- Time: 6 weeks, 1 hour each
- Cost: $85/session; or $510 total
Signup confirmation includes one-time, nonrefundable $20 supply cost.[/expand]
Our deepest and most primal wounds come from our attachment experiences. Is anyone there if we need them? Will our needs be welcomed? Too much? Will we be safe? Will we be understood and seen with compassion? Will we be loved unconditionally? [read more] How we show up in relationships as adults is largely impacted by the answer to these questions. Most of us are in the process of undoing, redoing, and reframing these attachment wounds so that we can have healthy and thriving relationships. This group is designed through the lens of hope and restoration. We can have intimate and loving relationships with ourselves and others. We will be learning embodied resources connected to our attachment needs that allow our nervous systems to both self-regulate and co-regulate. We will use a mix of art therapy, psychodrama and somatic resources to explore and rebuild our attachments together. Come along!
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- Explore Core Attachment Needs
- Identify attachment resources (protective, nurturing, and wise)
- Move into new ways of attaching (out of anxious/avoidant)
- Build confidence in secure self
- Develop capacity to reach for others[/expand]
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- Identify with having “trust issues” or “struggle with commitment”
- Struggle to feel secure in relationships
- Continue repeating unhealthy/toxic patterns
- Struggle with codependency and healthy
- boundaries
- Want to deepen/strengthen their current relationships
- Are parents looking to do something different with their own children[/expand]
[expand title=”Client Quotes:”]“This group invites you to dig into your interior world through the hands-on, tangible medium of clay. I left each week intrigued with the way a tray of earthy, firm, cool gray matter could facilitate the healing process of awareness, uprooting and rebuilding.”[/expand]
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- Time: 6 weeks, 1 hour each
- Cost: $85/session; or $510 total
Signup confirmation includes one-time, nonrefundable $20 supply cost.[/expand]
