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, curiosity and an avid interest 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.
I have created (and sold) a variety of arts and crafts yet ,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. More importantly, acquiring the theoretical and practical understanding of the Expressive Arts' has 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 resulted in an integration of my passions (artistic, self development and working with people), with my 30 years of professional experience in different capacities (teaching, training, supervising, hiring and managing). And 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 through art.
I have created (and sold) a variety of arts and crafts yet ,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. More importantly, acquiring the theoretical and practical understanding of the Expressive Arts' has 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 resulted in an integration of my passions (artistic, self development and working with people), with my 30 years of professional experience in different capacities (teaching, training, supervising, hiring and managing). And 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 through art.
"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