Expressive Arts Therapy
Creativity as a pathway for reflection, expression, connection, and discovery.
Expressive arts therapy is a multi-modal therapeutic approach that uses the arts as a way of making sense of our lives, accessing insight, and deepening our relationship with ourselves and the world around us.
Rather than focusing on artistic skill or creating a finished product, the emphasis is on the process itself. Visual art, writing, storytelling, movement, sound, imagination, and other creative modalities can offer ways of accessing thoughts, feelings, and perspectives that may be difficult to reach through words alone.
Whether working one-on-one or in a group, expressive arts can open new ways of understanding ourselves, relating to others, and responding to what life brings.
You may be here because you are:
Moving through a major life transition, change, or uncertainty
Navigating relationships or relational change
Exploring questions of identity, belonging, or how you want to live
Experiencing grief or loss
Facing a difficult decision or a period of not knowing
Wanting to reconnect with creativity, yourself, or a sense of possibility
Ways to work together in Expressive Arts Therapy
One-on-one support for personal exploration and reflection.
Facilitated creative experiences for communities and teams.
A therapeutic pottery experience for honouring the stories our bodies carry.
Start where you are. Each offering creates a different kind of space for creative exploration, reflection, and connection.
Individual Expressive Arts Therapy
One-on-one expressive arts therapy for personal exploration, reflection, and support.
Online Session – $140/hour
This is a dedicated space for you to engage with your thoughts, emotions, questions, and life experiences through creative process, reflection, and conversation. Together, we follow what feels most important to explore in the moment.
I offer a free 20-minute Exploratory Call to see whether this feels like a good fit before booking a session.
Extended Health Coverage
I am a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) with the Association of Canadian Counselling Therapists (ACCT). Depending on your plan, expressive arts therapy may be eligible for reimbursement through extended health benefits. Check directly with your insurance provider to confirm your coverage and requirements. I do not offer direct billing.
Group Workshops
Facilitated group experiences that use creative process to support reflection, connection, and shared exploration.
In-person or online
Group experiences can hold both personal and collective exploration. Participants engage with their own questions and experiences while discovering new perspectives through witnessing, conversation, collaboration, and creative process.
Group workshop possibilities:
Explorative mark-making
Guided lantern-making
Collaborative art-making
Mixed media
Storytelling
Creative reflection and sharing
Other arts-based processes shaped around the needs and intentions of the group
I facilitate workshops for adults, children, and mixed-age groups in community, wellness, support, and organizational settings. Workshops can be designed around a particular theme, transition, question, or intention, or simply create space for creative connection and shared experience.
Looking for creative facilitation for a design team, client group, or community engagement process?
Explore Collaborative Design Facilitation.
Tit-Tea Cup Sessions
For honouring and exploring the stories our bodies carry.
In this expressive arts therapy workshop, you’ll create a ceramic mug molded from a casting of your own breast, creating a one-of-a-kind tit-tea cup.
Bringing together ceramics, body-based exploration, and creative process, the experience offers an opportunity to pause and connect with your body through making. For some, it is playful and celebratory. For others, it’s a space for acknowledging change, transition, grief, healing, or identity. Often, it is a little bit of everything at once.
This experience holds space for:
Pregnancy and postpartum experiences
Breast cancer or mastectomy
Gender-affirming surgery or other significant changes to the body
Changes in relationships with femininity, sexuality, or self-image
Grief and healing
Marking a new chapter or milestone
A personal ritual to experience in a one-on-one setting
A gathering with friends or loved ones
The process invites curiosity, reflection, laughter, and meaningful conversation about our relationships with our bodies and the many ways our bodies carry our stories.
Wherever you are in your experience, all of it is welcome here. From teacups to milk jugs, all breast sizes belong.
Full-day experience
The workshop takes place over a full day with a break in the middle. Timing varies depending on group size and pace.
What’s included:
A full day of facilitated creative process
All ceramic and casting materials
Optional underglaze decoration
Post-workshop refinement and finishing by Julia
Kiln firings
Final glazing
1 person — $550
2-3 people — $340/person
4-6 people — $280/person
Why this approach?
Creativity is a powerful resource that exists within all of us — not as artistic ability, but as a way of paying attention, making meaning, imagining possibilities, and responding to life with greater presence and awareness.
Creative expression, imagination, and play can help us see ourselves and our circumstances in new ways. They can offer a different way of exploring experiences, communicating what is difficult to put into words, and making space for curiosity and possibility.
Expressive arts offers a way to reconnect with these capacities and draw on them as resources for navigating change, relationships, uncertainty, and the complexities of life.
No artistic experience is needed. The focus is not on making “good art,” but on using creative process as a way of listening, exploring, expressing, and discovering.