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How do the arts help therapy?

Creative arts therapy can provide a safe container for exploring your inner life—how thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and the nervous system interact.

Experiential practices invite emotional awareness and central nervous system regulation. Within the therapeutic relationship, we learn about what helps the body feel safe. Therapy is tailored to the individual rather than the diagnosis.

When we invite emotion and creativity into the conversation, we can gain perspectives and opportunities for growth. This allows for new connections to form in the frontal cortex, creating healing.

Not just therapy as usual.

Personal Well-being

Childhood Issues

Neurodiversity and ADHD

Grief/Trauma & AF-EMDR

Anxiety & Depression

What is Creative Arts Therapy?

Creative Arts Therapy uses expressive means to treat emotional, somatic and mental health conditions.

Creative Arts Therapy can help you understand your emotions and learn self-regulation to keep calm and learn to respond rather than to react.

Creative Arts Therapy does not require any artistic ability. We help you channel thoughts and emotions through artistic expression of any kind.

Creative Arts Therapy provides a universal language for communication, within the safe context of the therapeutic relationship.

Testimonials

• A great woman with the most healing presence you’ll ever meet! Carla has helped me thru many hard times and has provided me a safe space for self reflection, acceptance, along with releasing energies you can’t control. -EMB

• Carla is an excellent therapist. After years of trying different approaches, Carla's full body art therapy was a breakthrough for me. By tailoring our sessions to my needs, I found exactly what I needed. If you are looking for a compassionate, thoughtful, and patient therapist, I highly recommend Carla. -MDJ

• Carla Rose is a wonderful therapist. She provides a nonjudgmental space where you feel seen, heard, and understood. The art therapy practices she uses provide good insight into thoughts and feelings that are hard to otherwise explain. I was able to work through a lot of previously unspoken, sometimes even unknown problems that were deeply affecting me thanks to Carla Rose. -LR

• Carla is a compassionate, creative and perceptive therapist. She thinks out of the box and presents unique ways of working with deeply entrenched issues. -CK

 Video presentation: Can Art Be Medicine? (9 minutes)

Proud to have participated in the creation of this video produced by

The Foundation of Art and Healing.