Art therapy in florida
A Better Life Therapy offers Art Therapy for residents of Florida. While many people might think that art therapy is for children, it is actually a powerful type of therapy for adults as well.
Art therapy is the use of creative methods to help people move through overwhelming emotions, understand difficult situations, and find empowerment in knowing how to react in these situations.
Art therapy can help adults to better understand themselves and others and can support those who have felt “blocked” start to move forward.
As you create in art therapy, you learn how to get to the deeper meaning to what you are feeling and thinking and your therapist can help provide you tools for coping in the future.
Art Therapist in Florida
STEPHANIE WRAY, LMHC, ATR-BC, EXAT
Stephanie Wray is an award-winning Board-Certified Art Therapist, Mental Health Counselor, Expressive Arts Therapist, Yoga Teacher and educator-teaching at elementary, intermediate and university levels.She is an international speaker and published author. Stephanie has worked as an artist and as an expressive arts facilitator for 28 years for her own health and healing and has spent thousands of hours both one on one and in communities to facilitate implementing the arts as part of their healing, in response to trauma and for better health. Stephanie is recognized a leader in her field through her work with a non-profit Stars of HOPE where she was the program manager and the first art therapist leading therapeutic art responses to 49 human and natural caused disasters.
What is art therapy like with stephanie?
Stephanie focuses on the whole person and the strengths that they have to develop resiliency to overcome the challenges they may be facing. She is a trauma trained art therapist/expressive arts therapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She has worked with people that have PTSD/Trauma histories, life transitions, grief and loss and people who just want to explore themselves in a different way. She is a member of the LGBTQIA community and has an inclusive practice for all.
Stephanie offers art therapy, expressive arts therapy, and talk therapy - she can combine all of these methods or work with you to find one particular method that works best for you. You don’t need any prior experience to participate in any of these types of therapy. Anyone can do art therapy or expressive arts therapy.
What is art therapy?
Art therapy is an integrative mental health and human services profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship.
Art therapy, facilitated by a professional art therapist, effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals as well as community concerns. Art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress, and advance societal and ecological change. (American Art Therapy Association)
What are the expressive arts?
Expressive arts therapy is a multimodal approach to therapy. Expressive arts therapy may incorporate writing, drama, dance, movement, painting, and/or music. ... A person is not required to have artistic ability to use or benefit from expressive arts therapy.
How to Schedule
To schedule with Stephanie Wray, LMHC you can email our office at info@abetterlifetherapy.com and ask for an appointment with Stephanie or you can use our online scheduling tool to pick an appointment that works for you and schedule yourself. Stephanie provides all her therapy services utilizing tele-health.