ART THERAPY
promotes HEALING
ART SPEAKS
Participant's resistant to therapy usually find it easier to relate to the art or images. The process can be helpful to those who struggle in finding words, the art speaks for them.
CHOICES
Art Therapy helps participants find more choices for ways to be healthy in upsetting situations.
PERMANENCE
The art object produced is permanent. The art is not subject to the distortions of memory. One may notice emerging patterns when the work is viewed as a whole.
SAFETY
The art therapist creates an environment where participants feel safe to talk about thoughts, feelings, and concerns and express them with and through art.
STRESS REDUCTION
Art Therapy can teach participants to use art activities such as drawing and painting as a way of reducing stress.
RELEASE PAIN
It helps participants release pain, express feelings and get the support to move through life's challenges.
AboutAMY
​Amy is a highly qualified and experienced Registered Art Therapist (ATR) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a dual Master's degree in Counseling Psychology and Art Therapy from Adler University. She has been running a successful private practice in Eau Claire, WI since 2017, with an art studio in Banbury Place. Her referral sources include: CCS, LSS's Renewed Strength Program, and private pay. Soon accepting select insurance providers, stay tuned.
I've increase my range of help to the Chippewa valley in 2024 by partnering with the non-profit Evolving Wellness in town to offer ongoing trauma-informed creative art groups for youth ages 8-18 with a program called Art with Heart (WEAU link for a program overview) through Evolving Wellness that is taking CLTS and private pay (slide scale) referrals. I trained and provide ongoing supervision to the facilitators. If you are interested in signing your youth up or training to become a facilitator contact Evolving Wellness.
Amy has extensive expertise working in both an inpatient, outpatient psychiatric setting and within her private practice with ages varying from 10 to 74 utilizing both verbal and varying styles of art therapy approaches with groups and individuals.​ Her experience includes working with people struggling with with neurodivergent challenges, depression, anxiety, personality disorders, and mental illnesses.
She is an empathetic therapist who understands that the decision to seek professional help is rarely an easy one. She is committed to the belief that even short term therapy can be extremely valuable. She pulls from several therapeutic approaches when conducting therapy and is considered eclectic in her theoretical orientation. Participants working with Amy can expect to be welcomed into a warm, non-judgmental environment. Amy practices person-centered, strength-based approaches. Her goals are to work together to helps people develop strategies for ways to be healthier in upsetting situations and view challenges from a different perspective.
