(she/her), MA, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), DTATI
I am passionate about inviting individuals into the healing and creative process when they need it most. After 20 years of exhibiting and practicing art in Berlin, Germany, I returned to Canada to retrain as an art psychotherapist at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute. Working with in-patient and out-patient adults and young adults undergoing cancer treatment, with people with mental illness, recovering from physical injury and people fleeing violence, I have developed an approach that prioritizes reconnecting people with themselves, their values and the relationships that are most important to them.
Informed by Narrative Therapy, mindfulness, trauma therapy and somatic practices, my way of working is client-led. Some of us need to start in the body; others need to start with the story and go from there. Reach out, and let’s begin.
Art therapy requires absolutely no art experience. It invites people to engage in the arts of all kinds to express, self-regulate and creatively explore issues.
I was born to a family of first-generation settlers in St. Catharines, Ontario, on the ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples.