Why Choose art therapy services?

Art therapy is an integrative and expansive healing approach for navigating many mental health challenges, symptoms, and diagnoses. Art therapy can be utilized for processing trauma, exploring identity, developing sense of self, as a coping tool and grounding technique, and beyond.

Art therapy requires a master’s degree level clinician from an accredited university in both art therapy and counseling, as well as ATR credentialing by the American Art Therapy Association’s board. Despite these requirements to practice Art Therapy, insurance companies do not recognize this as a specialized treatment modality. Insurance companies also place limitations on the length of sessions covered for services.

For this reason, all Art Therapy services with me are offered at an out of pocket cost. Art Therapy sessions will be 90 minutes minimum, with the option of booking 2 hour sessions. Allowing additional time beyond the insurance-designated limitation of approximately 55 minutes can provide us with the space for deeper therapeutic processing, fully entering “flow” states during artmaking, and having allotted time to return to our bodies and verbally process the artmaking experience together.