Expressive Arts Therapy in Oregon
The Arts Belong in Therapy! Expressive Arts Therapy Can Help You With..
Processing trauma
Finding non-verbal ways to express your feelings, needs & wants
Building up tools for regulation & coping
Envisioning your hopes & future possibilities
Connecting with your partner through creative expression
Getting out of your head & into your body
Art & therapy are creative processes. Bringing the arts into therapy can allow for unique ways of processing and new paths for healing.
If you’ve ever felt like traditional talk therapy was missing something, didn’t allow you to dive as deep as you hoped, or felt like cognitive overload, you might enjoy expressive arts therapy!
Meet Yael, Your Expressive Arts Therapist
I am trained in expressive arts for trauma processing. Via simple, non-intimidating arts prompts we may find new points of entry into old stories, and source surprising or compelling meaning - on your terms. The arts also provide us with a wealth of tools for embodiment and nervous system regulation, as well as help us leverage our strengths (individual & cultural) for accessing newfound resiliency. I work with a variety of arts modalities, when and if client-appropriate and in support of client voice and choice. These encompass overlapping practices such as visual art, poetry prompts, body-based techniques, dramatherapy and more. I am faculty in a graduate program training expressive arts therapists with a social justice orientation, with the belief that the arts can contribute culturally-rich alternatives to the western-centric ways of conceptualizing healing and pathology.