Elaine's practice offers Expressive Arts as another form of therapy. It is done in a safe environment and free of judgment where individuals are empowered. Elaine believes everyone possesses the capacity for healing through self-discovery and creative expression. She accomplishes this through the use of expressive arts and therapeutic process to enhance consciousness, release feelings, and heal the spirit.
What Is Expressive Arts?
Expressive Arts is a rapidly expanding field in therapeutic practice. It is holistic, interdisciplinary, and grounded in human psychoanalytic theory and systems theory. Shaun McNiff gave birth to Expressive Arts and feels creativity should become a major health concept. Expressive Arts taps into one's unconscious storehouse of rich knowledge and experience.
Expressive Arts uses storytelling, movement, dance, drama, dream work, and visual arts together and separately in an integrated way. It fosters human growth and development, as well as healing. It is an opportunity to claim or reclaim our capacity for individual and collective creativity. It is about experiencing a creative community for healing.
Expressive Arts celebrates connectedness, deep feeling, creativity, intuition, purpose, and the totality of the human experience. No artistic ability is needed. It is suitable for all ages, cultures, and physical abilities.