Rewild Your Creativity & Expand Your Range of Play

Your inner world is a rich terrain and the creative genius within you has so much to offer. Creative embodiment is therapeutic, brings new insight, and aids the digestion and gentle release of unprocessed emotions. We harvest so much growth by going through the eye of the needle of our emotional pain in a supportive environment. Expressive Arts Therapy is a sensory awareness practice that stokes the flame of creativity, attends to mental/emotional health, and nurtures trauma recovery.

Transitioning my in-person and online practice to a mental/ emotional health focus feels natural. I’ve been working for years with massage therapy & other modalities on trauma and soul recovery but this new way of working is deepening my capacity and is covered by benefits under counselling. It’s widely underestimated how much our inner world impacts our physical health and vice versa. Art-making experiences regulate the nervous system & harmonize brain chemistry.

This work offers low skill/high presence, therapeutic exploration of writing, poetry, storytelling, embodied movement, dance, photography, visual arts, sound, music, nature-based arts, and the intermodal flow between them.

In supporting trauma recovery, entrepreneurship embodiment, or curiosity around a growth edge, we follow what emerges in the work and expand the range of play within a solid frame of consent and permission. Many of us have forgotten how to truly play. I know I’m continuously navigating overwhelm in this modern life and these tools are helping me tremendously.

Expressive Arts Therapy is not about making good versus bad art or an end product, though that can often lead to rich harvests. Anything offered is an invitation as we decide together what routes to take in the work. I welcome and encourage your “no” if any of the offerings don’t fit with how you feel in the moment. You may lay down in a resting state while engaging in the session if that would be most nourishing. The experience is customized to you.

Imagine as if the colour in your space could turn up its volume and nourish you just by being appreciated. When in doubt, put on some fave music and move! Tune into my website for upcoming dances, events, and a beautiful day retreat on August 15. Take gentle care of yourself.

Christy Greenwood is an Expressive Arts Therapist & Registered Therapeutic Counsellor offering nourishing creative experiences that gently attend to trauma recovery, mental health, emotional integration and embodiment. Find her at christygreenwood.com & dancetemplecowichan.ca.