Expressive Arts
Therapy
Creativity as a pathway for reflection, expression, connection, and discovery.
Expressive arts therapy is a multi-modal 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 process — using visual art, writing, storytelling, movement, sound, imagination, and other modalities to access thoughts, feelings, and perspectives that may be difficult to reach through words alone.
Whether in individual sessions or group settings, this approach can open new ways of understanding ourselves, relating to others, and responding to what is unfolding in our lives. There is so much to discover through creative expression.
Intentional creative processes can open space for:
A sense of reconnection with wellbeing through creativity and imagination
A way of exploring thoughts, emotions, and patterns that can be difficult to access through conversation alone
A deepening of awareness and understanding of inner experience
Support through change, transitions, and uncertainty
Space for communication and relational dynamics to shift and unfold
Opportunities for collaboration and creative approaches to problem-solving.
In these contexts, creative process can offer new perspectives, emotional movement, and a way of engaging with what is emerging beneath the surface.
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.
I offer individual expressive arts therapy and facilitated group workshops.
These spaces invite you to slow down, connect more deeply with yourself, and explore new ways of relating to the opportunities, challenges, questions, and relationships present in your life. Each experience is unique, responding to what is present and allowing space for what wants to emerge.
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.
Insurance Coverage
I hold a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) designation with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada (ACCT).
One-on-one RTC services may be eligible for reimbursement through your extended health care plan. In British Columbia, some providers that may offer coverage for RTC services include Pacific Blue Cross, Sun Life, GreenShield, and Equitable Life of Canada. Please check with your insurance provider directly to confirm the details of your individual plan and coverage.
Direct billing is not currently available.
Group Workshops
Facilitated expressive arts experiences for groups, communities, and organizations.
In-person / Online
Workshops can be tailored to a wide range of contexts, including community groups, wellness and support programs, creative teams, architectural and design offices, and other organizations. Through guided arts-based processes, participants are invited into deeper reflection, creative engagement, meaningful dialogue, collaboration, and shared discovery.
Each workshop is customized to the needs of the group. Pricing is determined based on group size, duration, and scope; contact me to discuss options.
Tit-Tea Cup Sessions
For honouring and exploring the stories our bodies carry.
1 person — $550
2-3 people — $340/person
4-6 people — $280/person
In this expressive arts therapy workshop, you'll create a ceramic mug molded from a casting of your own breast — a one-of-a-kind tit-tea cup.
Bringing together ceramics, body-based exploration, and creative process, this experience offers a unique opportunity to pause and connect with your body through making. For some, it is playful and celebratory. For others, it becomes a space to acknowledge change, transition, grief, healing, or a chapter of life they wish to honour. Often, it is a little bit of everything at once.
The process naturally invites curiosity, reflection, moments of laughter, and meaningful conversation around our relationships with our bodies, identity, sexuality, self-image, and the many ways our bodies carry our stories.
Wherever you are in your journey, all of it is welcome here. From teacups to milk jugs, all breast sizes belong.
This is a full-day workshop, with a midday break between the breast casting and ceramic-building portions of the process. Total duration varies depending on group size, pace, and needs of participants.
What's included:
A full day of facilitated creative process in an intimate and supportive setting
All materials for plaster casting and ceramic construction
Optional underglaze detailing completed during the workshop
Post-workshop refinement and finishing by Julia to ensure each piece is structurally sound and beautifully finished
Kiln firings by a partnering studio and final glazing by Julia
I see creativity as a powerful resource that exists within all of us — not as artistic ability, but as a way of paying attention, making meaning, and responding to life with greater presence and intention.
For many of us, creative expression, imagination, and play become quieter as we move through adulthood. Expressive arts offers an opportunity to reconnect with these capacities — not to return to childhood, but to rediscover them as valuable resources for navigating the complexities of adult life.
Whether I am working one-on-one or facilitating a group, my hope is to create spaces where curiosity, imagination, and reflection invite new ways of seeing ourselves, one another, and the paths unfolding before us.