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Self-awareness and self-esteem
The act of making, in a confidential setting, lets you meet yourself on the page. Many clients leave a first session knowing one thing about themselves that they did not know walking in.
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All ages welcome
Children, youths, and adults. Regardless of age or challenges.
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No artistic skill required
The session is the medicine, not the masterpiece. Stick figures count.
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By appointment
Call to schedule, or send a note through the contact form.
EN · FR
English and French
Services available in English and French. Bilingual practice.
Why Art Therapy
Six ways the work
moves a person forward.
Art therapy uses the creative process of art and play along with psychotherapy in support of the client's goals. Sessions are spontaneous or therapist-directed based on individualized treatment plans.
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Problem-solving strategies
Working a problem in image and material reveals options that talk alone can talk around. The page becomes a quiet sandbox for choices.
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Reducing stress
Hands moving on paper or clay lowers the volume of the day. The work itself is regulating, before any interpretation begins.
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Resolving emotional conflicts
Anxiety, depression, anger. The image holds the feeling so the feeling does not have to hold you. We work through it together, at your pace.
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Building social skills
In family or small-group work, art becomes a shared language. People who struggle to talk to one another can still make alongside one another.
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Increasing coping skills
The strategies discovered in session travel home. A grounding image, a private journal, a five-minute drawing practice, become tools for the harder weeks.
About Stephanie
A practitioner with breadth,
trained for the harder work.
- Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Sociology.
- Master's level diploma in Art Therapy, Vancouver Art Therapy Institute.
- Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario.
- Member of the Canadian Art Therapy Association and the Ontario Art Therapy Association.
- Third Degree Black Belt with 10+ years of martial arts training.
Nine years working with physically and mentally disabled individuals. Specialised work with children, youths, and adults in high-risk situations, across schools, juvenile detention centres, women's shelters, group homes, and street outreach.
Read Stephanie's full bio
CRPO
Registered Psychotherapist
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Privilege and confidentiality are central to the therapist-patient relationship.
A note from Stephanie
Who Comes In
Regardless of your age
or challenges.
Children working through big feelings. Youths navigating change or crisis. Adults sitting with anxiety, depression, grief, or simply wanting a quieter space to know themselves better.
Children
Play-based, image-led
Where words are still developing, the image carries the work. Family sessions available.
Youths
Identity, regulation, change
Specialised experience with youth in high-risk situations and in care settings.
Adults
Reflective practice
For those who find verbal therapy intrusive, or who want a fuller way to work the material.
What Makes It Work
Six reasons people
try art therapy first.
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No need to be artistic
This is not an art class. There is no skill bar. Stick figures, scribbles, mark-making, all of it counts.
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Effective across ages
Children, youths, adults. The materials and the conversation shift with the client, the method does not.
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Doesn't rely on language
Helpful when words are hard to find, in trauma, in early development, or in the parts of an experience that have no name yet.
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A safe environment to explore
Confidential, privileged, and pace-led. You bring what you want to bring; we never push past readiness.
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Less intrusive than verbal therapy
The image carries the load. You can speak to it instead of to yourself, which lets the harder material come at its own time.
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Creativity is inherently therapeutic
The making itself does work, regardless of what gets made. The session is the medicine, not the masterpiece.
Bring what you have.
The page does the rest.
By appointment, at 205-1288 Commissioners Rd W. Call to schedule, or send a note through the contact form, and Stephanie will reach out to set a first session.