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PLEASE NOTE that I work with adults only (18+).
ART THERAPY
online + in-person
Art therapy is a combination of talk therapy and art-making… mucking about with art materials, and words, and ideas, and emotions to see how they make you feel. To see how they can bend, and move, and intersect. We dig in. We pause, and express, and notice. We make some space for all of it to unfold, and be. Some space to make a mess, to see, to ask questions, to let yourself feel what you feel… and move through it towards a different sort of understanding. Space for a different kind of conversation, one that enlists creativity and curiosity in understanding YOUR lived experience – in the world, and in your body. A movement forward. Unstuck.
CREATIVE MENTORSHIP SESSIONS
online + in-person
These sessions are for folks who are wanting to build a creative care practice, and need some (metaphorical) hand-holding. I looooove holding hands. We will walk through all of the logistics of creating space, gathering materials, getting creative around motivation & scheduling, specific practices & processes that fit for you… and really, whatever else feels helpful in getting this happening for you. NOTE: these are booked as “art therapy” sessions on my calendar.
BRAINSPOTTING
online + in-person
NEW! Brainspotting Packages
Brainspotting is a neuroscience-informed practice that works with locating gaze spots (brainspots) outside of our body …in our visual field… that connect with and “light up” pathways to deeper (older, subcortical) parts of our brain. The parts that hold unprocessed trauma – and an assortment of other unresolved, unprocessed bits & bobs…fragments, chunks, and shards. The parts of our brain where our fight, flight, shutdown/freeze responses happen.
SUPERVISION
Individual + group | online + in-person
Supervision for art therapy students, professional art therapists, or ANY sort of therapist/counsellor/coach that incorporates art (and/or neurodiversity-informed care) into their client work. These sessions can absolutely include case consultation …and they can also be SO much more than that. We can talk about ANYTHING that’s coming up for you …as a therapist, counsellor, coach …as a human in that role.
I will ALWAYS be bringing neurodiversity-affirming practice into our conversations and consultations. Sometimes explicitly, sometimes more nuanced …it’s a foundation to how I practice, and how I understand this work (and our collective lived experience in the world).
If you have any questions – ask them!
ohHEY COMMUNITY
online subscription | FREE 1-month trial
This community is about building personal and collective CREATIVE CARE PRACTICES. Practices and routines that feel supportive and nourishing. Making time to do the things that we feel GOOD doing, things that ease our bodies, busy brains, and frazzled nervous systems. It’s a space to gather, in community …to repeat these practices …to pause, bend, fold (& unfold), meander, linger, wander, bumble, flail …be curious, be creative… together.
GROUPS & WORKSHOPS
in-person + online
My groups and workshops focus on therapeutic art-making …more of a focus on process, and less on product (and technique). Art-making as a somatic and sensory experience, and a resource that we can build into our lives to help soothe the ALL-ness of it all.
BILATERAL DRAWING CLUB
online
This is a space and practice for those who are wanting to BUILD a practice (practice = repetition) …that’s creative, intentional, integrative, and regenerative. That is grounding, regulating, soothing. A way of supporting ourselves, IN community.
NOTE: Bilateral Drawing Club is included for free in the ohHEY community membership.
PRIVATE GROUPS
My studio is available for private bookings for either your own event, or a private workshop (facilitated by me). I love creating experiential workshops for groups to muck about with art materials, enlist creative thinking, curiosity, collaboration, explore different avenues of personal and collective expression. Maybe it’s a gaggle of work pals, friends, family, peers. Maybe it’s professional development, a celebration/milestone, meeting, retreat…
Contact me to chat in more detail. Visit my instagram page (@heyheyshauna) to see photos of my studio space.
NOTE:
All in-person sessions are held at my studio in downtown Victoria (108-561 Johnson St).
SOME OF MY AREAS OF FOCUS
- Neurodiversity/Neurodivergence (including, but not limited to: ADHD, Autism, AuDHD, Sensory Processing Divergence...)
- Building Creative Care Practices
- Supporting overwhelm, underwhelm, complacency.
- Nervous system health, tending, regulation
- Living in alignment with personal values
- Social activism, self & collective care, liberatory practices
- Women's support (empowerment, decisions around/considering childfree living, the aging body, peri/menopause)
- Burnout & compassion fatigue for caregivers (prevention & recovery)
- Creative blocks (artists, writers, creatives)
- Anxiety, depression, fatigue, shutdown
- Trauma-informed grounding & processing
- Anger, irritability, frustration, stress management
- Developing (or re-igniting) a creative practice
- Brainspotting
CREATING SPACE TO...
- Learn how to notice how you're ACTUALLY feeling in any given moment, how the world (and it's sensory information) is affecting you - not how you should feel, but how you DO feel. Without judgement, without fixing... learning how to understand your experience differently.
- Explore different ways to be present and aware in your body, in discomfort, in transition - with creativity and curiosity.
- Learn and integrate small practices to help you to show up for yourself, and build self-trust.
- Build capacity to imagine, initiate, and create change in your life.
- Explore a collaborative approach to the work of personal healing - through a combination of talk, art-making, creative process, movement, and somatic awareness.
Author Ursula Le Guin describes our imaginations as the single most useful tool that we possess – a tool that we have to learn how to use, “to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them” – that the learning, teaching, and exercising of our imaginations is something foundational to our basic life skills “for growth, for health, for competence, for joy”.
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Located on the ancestral territories of the Lekwungen speaking people (Songhees, Esquimalt, Wsanec). In awe and gratitude for their historical and ongoing stewardship of these lands, and the opportunity to step into collaborative stewardship, community care, learning, and doing better.
