SPRING 2022....a NEW RETREAT SERIES
ART HEALS, weaves the healing powers of the Creative Arts Therapies, with aspects of Mental Health First Aid, which fosters building a sense of safety, trust, comfort and teaches you skills to reduce distress, introduces you to the tools to build resilience, needed to nurture your own mental health, during stressful situations, and life in general.
YOUR MENTAL HEALTH IS ESSENTIAL
Have you experienced loss, grief, isolation, due to the circumstances of this past year?
Have you been nervous, anxious and worrying excessively?
Have you lost interest and pleasure of things you usually enjoy doing?...........................YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE!
If you are currently experiencing a mental health crisis, please seek a mental health professional immediately.
This Retreat is not a substitute for emergency Mental Health services.
YOUR MENTAL HEALTH IS ESSENTIAL
Have you experienced loss, grief, isolation, due to the circumstances of this past year?
Have you been nervous, anxious and worrying excessively?
Have you lost interest and pleasure of things you usually enjoy doing?...........................YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE!
If you are currently experiencing a mental health crisis, please seek a mental health professional immediately.
This Retreat is not a substitute for emergency Mental Health services.
THIS WILL BE AN INTENSIVE, THREE NIGHT, TWO 1/2- DAY RESIDENTIAL RETREAT.
WHAT WILL WE BE DOING? Experience the weaving together of Creative Arts Therapy and Mental Health First Aid tools and practices through painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, dollmaking, multicultural and meditative arts, journaling, storytelling, psychoeducation, inner exploration and SHARING....playful, yet at times intensely serious, both relaxing and restorative, all in a nurturing, supportive environment. We will share our art, our stories, our feelings, through a variety of media. You will leave with greater confidence and self-esteem, increased insight and self-awareness. new skills and tools for providing your Self emotional and creative self–care.
THE PAINTING ROOM is a PROCESS PAINTING studio inspired by the work of Arno Stern (www.arnostern.com).
Session are 2 hours, with no prior art experience necessary. PROCESS PAINTING is an inner creative journey, a therapeutic art experience, without judgement, criticism or comment. The goal is the freedom and playfulness of personal self expression.
ART THERAPY AND MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING is available individually, with couples and with families, both in-person and via ZOOM. Within groups, participating in my new Retreat series, ART HEALS. An ongoing, OPEN GROUP shall begin in my new studio in Pondicherry in the near future, dates and times, TBA..........My style of therapy is eclectic, trauma-informed and combines Art Therapy with traditional counseling tools and practices, according to the individual needs of the client/s. I work with anxiety, depression, life issues, domestic violence, anger management and the many symptoms of trauma.
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