Current Offering:

I am retraining as an Art Therapist with Kutenai Art Therapy Institute !

Currently doing internship hours with Heart and Hands Health Collective

trying it out, mucking around, playing, mark making, messing about, noticing, witnessing, sensing and feeling our way through creative disruption and care towards collective liberation!

Let’s do art together!

Here is a FAQ about Art Therapy: ART MAKING TO KEEP GOING in FUCKED UP TIMES (by me)

NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WITH ART OR THERAPY REQUIRED!

reach out if you are interested in giving it a try! I am working with a pay-what-you-can model that centers access, mutual aid, reciprocity and relationships. It is available to everyone.

what I offer is rooted in a decolonizing neuroqueer affirmative practice; its creative care.

Our lived experiences of being who we are in white, capitalist, colonial, heteronormative patriarchy  can show up in our bodies and our lives as anxiety, depression, grief, overwhelm, fear, guilt, rage, resentments, shut down, intrusive thoughts, self loathing, irritability,  loneliness, stuckness, burnout, exhaustion, self harm, suicidal thoughts, consumption patterns… and although these symptoms are frustrating and painful and can be debilitating,  they are, at their root often acts of self soothing, and survival mechanisms that our body is activating on our behalf as it tries to adapt and respond.  

I believe that we can tend to these experiences by expanding our capacity to listen to, understand and communicate with our own being; our own self - in the presence of and in relationship with others.  

We are collective.  Our biological selves know that our chances of survival are better when we are connected to other beings (human and more than human beings like trees, soil, animals, rocks etc).

To be seen, heard and attuned to is healing for our nervous systems.   

We are also complex.  Our conscious day-to-day living,  our labour, how we get by in the world,  is only one aspect of our being.  We are our biology, our dreams, our fantasies, our spiritual self, our subconscious, our intuition, our sensations, our pleasure - our magic!  

Many of us, in our linear, rational, production oriented overculture, are cut off from, or out of touch with some or all of these other aspects of our experiences.  Accessing them intentionally and creatively can provide us with resources and support to keep going.   Accessing them in community can be additionally supportive as this aligns with cultural practices from around the world, from each of our lineages.