Adult Creative Arts Therapy Group
This group is designed for adults navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, trauma, life transitions, or disconnection from self or others. Using expressive tools like image-making, role exploration, and metaphor, participants access deeper emotional layers, build insight, and strengthen resilience.
Strengths of the Group:
- Improved emotional regulation, with tools to manage overwhelm, anxiety, and difficult emotions through creative and somatic practices.
- Greater self-acceptance, awareness and understanding, through creative exploration and shared witness.
- Stronger communication and relational skills, including perspective-taking, understanding boundaries and expressing needs clearly.
- Increased self-awareness and personal insight, by accessing subconscious material and giving voice to internal experiences.
- Greater resilience and agency, by engaging creativity as a resource for navigating challenges and imagining new possibilities.
- Reconnection with meaning, purpose, and vitality, especially during times of transition, grief, or inner uncertainty.
- A renewed sense of connection, both to oneself and to others, through the shared experience of the creative process and group presence.
Teen Creative Arts Therapy Group
This group is designed for adolescents navigating the emotional complexity of identity formation, social pressure, anxiety, and change. Through creative expression, movement, storytelling, and role exploration, teens are supported in making sense of their internal world, building confidence, and connecting with peers in an authentic and supportive space.
Strengths of the Group:
- Improved emotional regulation, with creative tools to manage stress, anxiety, frustration, and emotional overwhelm.
- Stronger sense of identity and self-esteem, by exploring personal values, strengths, and inner narratives through expressive methods.
- Enhanced communication and relational skills, including empathy, boundary awareness, and the ability to express thoughts and needs authentically.
- Greater emotional insight and self-awareness, by accessing underlying thoughts and feelings that may be hard to articulate verbally.
- Increased confidence and creative expression, through being witnessed and supported in a non-judgmental group environment.
- Safe exploration of belonging and peer dynamics, fostering more grounded, flexible, and connected relationships.
- Support during life transitions, including academic pressure, family conflict, body image concerns, and social identity development.
Children’s Creative Arts Therapy Group
This group uses imaginative play, storytelling, music, movement, and art to help children explore their feelings, build social-emotional skills, and feel more secure in themselves. Grounded in developmental and trauma-informed approaches, the group provides a safe and playful space for emotional expression and relational growth.
Strengths of the Group:
- Enhanced emotional literacy, by helping children identify, name, and express feelings in developmentally appropriate ways.
- Improved self-regulation and focus, through structured creative activities that support impulse control and calming.
- Stronger social and communication skills through stories, character building, and different forms of creative expression.
- Increased confidence and self-esteem, by engaging imagination, strengths, and positive feedback in a group setting.
- Safe expression of difficult emotions, such as fear, anger, or sadness, through symbolic and playful mediums.
- Opportunities to build empathy and connection by collaborating with peers and exploring shared experiences.
Support through life transitions, such as parental separation, school challenges, or grief, in a gentle and affirming space.