You care for a living, or you've built a life around work that matters — perhaps you’re an artist, a therapist, an educator, an activist, a parent…. The work is still meaningful on paper. But what used to feel like an expression of who you are now feels more like a role you can't quite put down. It’s exhausting to build your identity around caring so deeply.

If part of your life exists online, that adds its own layer: the pressure to be visible, consistent, and impressive — performing a version of yourself for an audience, even when you're running on empty.

Art therapy can be a place to pause the pressure for a while. Not to be fixed or healed — but to give shape to feelings that are hard to verbalize, to practice imperfection, and express something authentic and new.

We meet on Zoom, and you join from wherever feels private and comfortable. Sometimes we talk first. Sometimes you arrive with something already made. Sometimes we figure it out together in the first few minutes.

I'll listen carefully to where you are and offer art invitations that feel relevant to you — not prescribed exercises, but open prompts for you to bring your own intuition to. You use your own materials; they don't need to be expensive or special. Dollar store supplies and recycled materials are genuinely some of my favourites.

After you create, we explore what came up — not through interpretation or analysis, but through curiosity. You are the expert on your own art. I don't diagnose, critique, or tell you what your work means. I help to guide you in making personal meaning from your process.

I work non-directively, which means you lead and I hold the space. Together we pay attention to what comes up — in the image, in the body, in the process of making something with your hands.

Every session is different. Art can be deep, cathartic, playful, and surprising — sometimes all at once. I have the training to support you in whatever feelings arise.

I tend to work with artists, educators, therapists, activists, and caregivers who have built their lives around meaningful work — and are running on empty.

Often, the people I work with are self-aware and articulate. They've done talk therapy before and found it helpful, but incomplete. They're at a crossroads — questioning the life they've built, the work they do, or who they are outside of what they produce. Many carry a complicated relationship with the online world: they rely on it, resent it, and can't quite leave it.

What they're looking for isn't another framework or more advice. It's a space where they don't have to perform insight or hold it together. Somewhere they can to to a place beyond what words can describe. Somewhere they can slow down and make something without the pressure to perform.

You don't need to be an artist or have experience with art materials. You just need some curiosity and a private space to join from.

  • Expressing emotions that feel difficult or impossible to put into words

  • Releasing perfectionism and creating more freely

  • Reconnecting with your creative identity — or discovering one you didn't know was there

  • Processing and healing from past experiences and life transitions

  • Feeling worthy of rest, play, and genuine self-care

  • Building a personal sense of what wellness actually means to you — not the version you perform for others

  • Shifting patterns of shame, comparison, and self-criticism

  • Developing clarity about how you want to feel — online and off

Getting Started

Sessions are 60 or 90 minutes, held on Zoom. I offer one free 30-minute consultation — a chance for us to meet, talk about what you're looking for, and figure out together whether art therapy feels like a good fit. There's no pressure to commit to anything.

Frequency

I recommend starting with 6 sessions, weekly or bi-weekly, to build trust and consistency. Though we'll follow your lead. You can change your mind about therapy at any time.

Supplies

You provide your own art materials. Nothing needs to be expensive — I'll help you figure out what to work with.

Rate

$165 CAD/hour (approx. $118 USD). I am able to accept insurance as a Registered Psychotherapist for clients living in Ontario.

Cancellations

With less than 24 hours notice or a no-show, I charge my full session fee.

Location

I work with clients in most provinces across Canada and in select US states and countries. If you're wondering whether we can work together, reach out — I'm happy to figure it out with you.

reach out at hello@arttherapyinreallife.com to book a free 30-minute consultation. We'll just talk — no art supplies needed.