me
For as far back as I can remember, immersing myself in the creative process has been one of my passions and a source of comfort. Throughout the years, this passion for experimenting with different materials, mediums and the infinite possibilities of creation has led me to take several art courses and has influenced my ways to create to be devoid of a specific style or technique.
And even though, I had created (and sold) a variety of arts and crafts ,ironically, it wasn’t until attending a course to become a Certified Expressive Arts Therapist (2012- 2014), on a quest to redesign my life and start a new career, that I was able to call my self an artist...an expressive artist. But more importantly, acquiring the theoretical and practical understanding of the Expressive Arts' helped me to redefine the meaning of arts for myself and to value it even more for its healing
and transformative benefits.
Becoming an Expressive Arts Therapist awoke in me a renewed sense of purpose, and as I integrated my artistic passion, my avid interest for self development and my passion for working with people, which accounted for 30 years of professional experience in different capacities (teaching, training, supervising, hiring and managing), I can say that instead of just starting a new career, I started to follow a calling which is unfolding in many ways.
Now, as an Expressive Arts Therapist, Expressive Artist, Art Instructor and children's book Author, I work with children and adults providing the means for creative freedom and connection with imagination to facilitate self-expression, insight, transformation and healing.
And even though, I had created (and sold) a variety of arts and crafts ,ironically, it wasn’t until attending a course to become a Certified Expressive Arts Therapist (2012- 2014), on a quest to redesign my life and start a new career, that I was able to call my self an artist...an expressive artist. But more importantly, acquiring the theoretical and practical understanding of the Expressive Arts' helped me to redefine the meaning of arts for myself and to value it even more for its healing
and transformative benefits.
Becoming an Expressive Arts Therapist awoke in me a renewed sense of purpose, and as I integrated my artistic passion, my avid interest for self development and my passion for working with people, which accounted for 30 years of professional experience in different capacities (teaching, training, supervising, hiring and managing), I can say that instead of just starting a new career, I started to follow a calling which is unfolding in many ways.
Now, as an Expressive Arts Therapist, Expressive Artist, Art Instructor and children's book Author, I work with children and adults providing the means for creative freedom and connection with imagination to facilitate self-expression, insight, transformation and healing.
"Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.”
― Charlie Chaplin
― Charlie Chaplin