Expressive Arts Therapists in Rhinebeck, NY

What is your vision of wellness? Both client and counselor will collaborate to define this vision, and design a therapeutic treatment plan that is individualized, goal oriented, and person centered. If you are seeking tools to enhance insight or empathy, to increase skillfulness or emotion regulation, or to strengthen interpersonal effectiveness or distress tolerance, let's collaborate together.

Getting support is more important than ever. I help clients adjust to change, including loss, overcome difficulties with relationships of all kinds, address attachment issues, PTSD, and anxiety. I work collaboratively—a strong connection between therapist and client is the foundation of good therapy. Listening deeply to clients, I draw on 40 years as a somatic practitioner (incl. 10 years as a massage therapist) and use intuition, empathy, compassion, and humor to help guide the process. I integrate proven and effective mind-body techniques to alleviate chronic stress and pain and achieve wellness through life-style changes.

We are currently accepting clients including children, teens, adults, couples, and families! We also offer many options for group therapy and community events.

I support caretakers, empaths, creatives, those suffering from PTSD, ADHD anxiety, depression, phobias, addiction, sleep issues and lack of direction. Accessing inner wisdom and empowerment provides a place to heal old wounds from a place of strength. I help others experience a bigger perspective: this in turn, helps them to know they are not their stories.

Have you lost touch with your voice? Do you need help reconnecting with your courage in order to speak your truth and meet your life goals and desires? I will help you come home to your true self so that you can live your life to the fullest. Using mind body psychotherapy, mindfulness, and experiential methods, I will help you work through issues and barriers that block your creativity and keep you stuck. Together, we will build your inner resources so you can be more present to joy and abundance.

My practice offers treatment that is individually created for your specific needs and issues. I am devoted to creating a safe and caring environment to support your emotional, physical, spiritual and psychological well-being. I focus on guiding individuals toward health and healing using modern clinical practice, holistic therapeutic approaches, mindfulness and mind/body techniques. Our model is based on a functional medicine approach which seeks to identify and address the root causes of psychological conditions and medical illnesses using a strength-based approach that treats the whole person, not a collection of symptoms.

What if: You could change your life for the better? You had more access to your creativity and more tools to help you succeed? You could improve your relationships at home and at work? Stress, anxiety, depression, and limiting beliefs keep you stuck in unhealthy, unproductive patterns and prevent you from living the life you want to live. I offer experiential tools to help you explore your issues, identify and work through the blocks that get in the way, and find the tools and resources you need to move forward. Why analyze your dreams when you can live them?

Anxiety, depression and trauma can be treated holistically. Often, people feel like they have different parts of themselves inside that are pulling in different directions. It can be challenging to sort through it all alone. If you are feeling depleted, tired, confused, or overwhelmed, a good therapist can help you slow down and put the pieces together. If you are feeling reactive and on edge or feeling like running away, or just plain shut down, good therapy can help you restore connection with yourself and others. And if you are feeling like traditional talk therapy is not enough, then you have definitely come to the right place!

Adults, Teens, and Children in need of counseling benefit from Creative Arts Therapy, as do families, and couples. I offer the optional use of Creative Arts to help clients gain a much needed perspective to assist them in their healing. Words, alone, cannot fully express your feelings. The creative arts can provide a potent "language" for expression and requires no previous art making experience. Paint, college, clay, mask-making, and creative writing help clients express, understand, and transform their feelings into allies for healing. Art Therapy has been designated as a mind-body approach by the National Institute of Health.

Trauma isn’t what happens to us. It’s what happens inside of us. If I have learned anything from my own pain, my clients' pain, and the failures of our current system of mental health treatment, it’s that we are constantly misunderstanding the role of traumatic experience. Together we will find a therapeutic approach that works for you and your unique experience. In order to create lasting change in our lives, we need more from therapy than a verbal exchange. Over the last ten years, I have studied and employed a variety of experiential methods to address the root causes of trauma and help individuals invite lasting personal growth.

My passion is helping children, adolescents, and young adults lead happier, more enjoyable lives, and enabling their families to experience harmony and joy in their homes. As a Clinical Social Worker and Registered Play Therapist, I specialize in working with children, adolescents, and young adults who are experiencing difficulties managing their emotions and navigating relationships and life's challenges. I also provide support for parents and caregivers during their parenting journey.

Grief shatters life as you know it; the challenge is in putting it back together. Your healing begins with your story. Tell me what happened, how you feel. Let's look at your relationships and who you are as a result. I will listen, sit with you in compassionate presence as you uncover your own personal skills, and guide you through this transition. You can rebuild your life into a comfortable shape while honoring your connections to the past. I can help you find your way back to wholeness. Loss can be transformed.

Pain seeks our attention. Emotional distress manifests or "speaks" through physical distress. Adults living with physical or emotional pain can benefit from BODY-CENTERED psychotherapy. Sessions can include BODYWORK. Dreamwork and expressive therapies can also be utilized to amplify awareness. Like dreams, body symptoms are dynamic conduits into the unconscious; likewise, they serve as messengers charged with waking us up and redirecting our energies back toward life. Clients become adept explorers, listeners & learners, moving with curiosity toward rather than away from feeling, as they befriend disenfranchised parts of themselves.

I offer compassionate support to those facing mood disorders, existential issues, sexuality, family issues, spirituality concerns, life path issues, trauma, anxiety, and a range of psychological and personal challenges. I seek to connect with clients in a patient and exploratory manner, providing insight and relief for those who seek it. Genuineness, authenticity, and acceptance are central to my practice and I strive to bring this into every moment. I am based out of Infinity Mental Health Counseling in New Paltz and offer in-person sessions, telehealth, and hiking therapy. I work with teens (16+) and adults of all ages.

When emotions stir within, causing anxiety, depression, or distress in relationships, life can feel overwhelming. I view these shifts as gifts, like an indicator light your higher Self is yearning for a personal growth spurt. These feelings can be an opportunity to free yourself from the experiences that hold you back from living your best life. My ideal client is ready to explore their internal world to make the changes needed to create a positive transformation. I am a body-based trauma-informed therapist with a master’s degree in dance/movement therapy. I use the creative process and visualization as a tool for exploration.

I provide art therapy, psychotherapy, and trauma therapy. Services are personalized in a compassionate supportive environment that encourages curiosity. Art-making is always optional, I also integrate sensory-based approaches and talk therapy informed by the wisdom of the body. These engage the parts of the brain that develop pre-verbally. Sessions include choices and collaboration for you to co-create the best fit for your needs. We all get stuck sometimes. When clients are stuck, I offer a couple of paths or ways to begin. Sessions occur at my art studio located at the new Compass Art Center in downtown Kensginton.

Now more than ever, people are looking to improve their ability to cope and to deepen their relationships. But you need to find the right person to work with! My clients tell me that they feel really comfortable with me and find me easy to talk with and open up to. I treat anxiety, depression, mood disorders, substance abuse, postpartum depression, teens/young adults and LGBTQIA issues. I’ve worked in many different clinical settings for the past 10 years. I am also a writer and musician. My experience has helped me develop a unique understanding of the complexity of human emotions and interpersonal relationships.