We begin by providing your wild creative brain with the structure of the DBT toolbox to give you the skills you’ll need while you’re making your art and the inner critic shows up. Our sessions will be framed with the DBT model, adapted to your needs and framed with a trauma and creative lens.

We support your DBT therapy with mindfulness and meditation practices that work with your specific brain and creative process, as well as your trauma or mental health story. This supports your creative process: As Mary Oliver said, “Attention is the beginning of devotion.”

Together, we look at your creative process and your mental health landscape and determine how to build a healthy creative practice and process that supports your mental health so that these two parts of yourself work in tandem with each other. Ideally, your mental health nourishes your creativity and vice versa. Here, I draw from a variety of creative, mental health, and spiritual resources, all curated to your needs. Expect fun assignments!