This work takes place across two complementary contexts. One is a therapeutic practice, offering confidential clinical and therapeutic services. The other is a creative studio, offering spaces for learning, embodiment, artistic exploration and community engagement. Although each has a different purpose, both are grounded in expressive arts and a commitment to embodied, creative ways of knowing.
Expressive Arts Therapy is a somatic, arts-based approach to therapy that uses movement, imagery, drawing, writing and reflection to explore lived experience. It offers a low-skill, accessible way of engaging with emotional life through creative process and the body.
My work in this field has been shaped by over 20 years of professional dance experience. I trained in Movement-Based Expressive Arts Therapy at the Tamalpa Institute in California with Anna and Daria Halprin and in Intermodal Expressive Arts Therapy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. This training has informed a practice that bridges conscious living and art-making — exploring the relationship between what is experienced in the art studio and how we live beyond it.
I am especially interested in supporting both artists and non-artists. When talk alone is not enough, I offer creative and embodied ways for people to encounter their lives and discover what matters most to them.
At the heart of this work is the understanding that life and art are deeply interconnected. This connection not only informs how we create and shape our lives, but also how we come to know and shape ourselves. In this sense, expressive arts can support reconnection, growth, change and a greater sense of integration.
The body holds the full repertoire of our lived experience. When we begin to work with the body as a source of awareness, we can express through movement, visual art, poetic writing and sound—deepening our relationship to ourselves, others and the environments we inhabit.
Rooted in the expressive arts tradition and the understanding that dance is the mother that births all other art forms, this work is dance-informed while embracing the full spectrum of creative expression. It draws on movement, imagination and sensory awareness as they interact and inform one another. Simple movement explorations are woven together with drawing and reflective dialogue, supporting a process of creative inquiry that is accessible to all bodies. No previous experience is required.
Within this practice, expressive arts becomes a space of inquiry:
What am I experiencing?
What is emerging?
What wants to be expressed?
This way of working is influenced by thinkers such as David Whyte, who speaks of the “arrogance of belonging”—the necessity of allowing ourselves to take up creative space in our own lives.
As Elizabeth Gilbert writes:
“I am a child of the Universe… engaging with the experiment of my life.”
At its core, this work is grounded in the belief that human beings are invited to participate in creation—not as performance, but as a lived, embodied process of expression, meaning-making and becoming.
We are living in times that ask for imagination, flexibility and new ways of being with ourselves and each other. Expressive Arts offers one pathway for this: supporting people to reconnect with themselves, expand their capacity for expression and move toward greater wholeness.
Ultimately, this work is about returning to the body as a place of knowing—and from there, re-entering life with greater presence, creativity and connection.
One of the most profound and far-reaching ways we can evolve and transform our future is by bringing consciousness to our physical bodies.