why I became an art therapist

Why I became a Holistic Art Therapist

Before I became an art therapist, I was living a different life. I was juggling working in marketing and graphic design with parenting and being a wife, and struggling with perfectionism and anxiety.

After a period of intense stress and loss, including that of my father, I hit a low point in my life marked by poor health, burnout, trauma, grief and pain.

The Breakthrough

Talking about it helped, but I found the true breakthroughs happened for me when I was creating art. I began to experience art in therapy and the insight that art can give. I discovered what a powerful tool art is, and I wanted to help others to discover, heal, renew and release in this way.

Art as Therapy

Throughout my journey to become an art therapist, I began connecting further and further into my spiritual and creative self. I wasn’t creating for others anymore. I was creating for me and God; to connect and release.

I began to learn that the time I felt the most joy, mindfulness and flow was when I painted. This quickly become my morning joy, and my experience of art as therapy.

And with each day, the anxiety and need for perfection gradually fell away.

Finding my Life Purpose

I accept that I will never be “perfect” and my life has ups and downs, yet I still experience grateful joy everyday. We can absolutely flourish even when we don’t have the perfect lives that society prescribes to us. And what is perfection anyway?

Finding Your Life Purpose…

I now help adults who are wanting to connect with their life purpose so that they can flourish with joy. Art therapy helped me to live a joyful life, and it can help you too.

You can read more about me here. If you are interested, please book a free 15 minute discovery session to find out about how art therapy can change your life.