Art Therapy in White Bear Lake, MN

You've likely encountered significant hurdles in life, whether it's trauma, depression, or anxiety. These challenges may leave you feeling overwhelmed, searching for a path through the darkness. If you're an adolescent or adult, you might be wrestling with the complexities of growing up or the pressures of adulthood while carrying these emotional burdens. For those facing pregnancy, postpartum, or fertility issues, additional emotional layers can complicate this deeply personal journey. In your search for solace, understanding, and guidance, you seek support in navigating your way through these challenges.

If you are reading this, its an important step you just took towards your own healing journey. At Life and Light Healing and Wellness we lovingly attend to you, to all that makes you...you, to co-create a healing space. Whether it's the dark clouds of depression, the tentacles of anxiety, or the storm of PTSD, our clinicians are equipped with the tools and skills to support you through your journey to healing.

I have a diverse background dedicated to facilitating healing and growth through the transformative power of art. I have worked with various populations including: individuals navigating trauma, feeling stuck in unhealthy habits, stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. I prioritize a client centered approach, where clients are empowered to take charge of their therapeutic journey, progressing at their own pace in a comfortable and supportive environment.

I work with children ages 0-10 who are coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, Autism and emotional and behavior concerns. In my sessions, I use a variety of therapeutic techniques including play, art, sand, and family involvement. I work with divorced families in offering co-parting sessions and helping children work through this transition. I work to support the entire family system on this journey together.

I focus on meeting clients where they are at, offering a safe and supported space to express the past and present challenges that can disrupt and occupy areas of their lives. I also highlight accountability and appropriately challenging clients to apply the things processed and discovered in therapy into their daily lives. I work with clients using a strength based, client-centered, and collaborative approach. I also assist individuals in creating and maintaining lifelong skills to better manage challenges and current symptoms.

Jocelyn is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Board-Certified Art Therapist with 13 years of experience supporting clients through talk and art therapy. Her practice is focused on working with individuals who identify as neurodivergent and seek support exploring this as well as those seeking support with challenges like sensory processing differences, self-esteem, general anxiety, social anxiety, depression, and difficulty with social relationships. Jocelyn will support you in harnessing your creativity to feel more empowered, confident, to find more ease in life.

My ideal client would be open to multiple modalities, willing to get into the nitty-gritty of themselves and their personal experiences, and ready to jump right in! My specialty focus is on Dissociative Identity Disorder and other childhood-trauma based issues, along with all the complications and internal family systems involved. I have also worked extensively in crisis intervention. I enjoy working with individuals who share my love of plants and gardening, making art, poetry and music, books and self discovery! As my client, be ready to dig in the dirt, cuddle up in my hammock, or stretch out on the floor!

Therapy & Self Care is not a one-size-fits-all. My goal in therapy is to create space for personalized mind-body regulation with individual consultations that serve as a bridge from problem to solution. This process includes personalized assessment, affirming action plans, compassionate accountability & awareness support along the way, that we all need to make change last. I am a Licensed Therapist, Certified Meditation Teacher, and Certified Instructional Designer. I also have experience in patient health education, clinical and creative writing, and employee wellness.

Emily is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. She provides individual therapy for adults and adolescent clients ages 16 and up. She is trained as a Master Certified accelerated resolution therapist and Creative Arts Therapist. Emily specializes in the treatment of complex trauma. As well as phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, grief and loss, anxiety, stress related to COVID-19. She is an LGBTQIA+ ally, body positive, and humanistic therapist; who supports individual choice and self-expression. Emily has authored Art workbooks found here: www.amazon.com/author/openmindtherapy.

I have experience with trauma, sever mental illness and life transitions. I work at my client's pace and follow the road they take in therapy. My approach is to give gentle guidance, educate, and creatively blend a holistic trauma-informed stance, which is the best success for healing. The creative process, through visual art and storytelling, opens up the unconscious mind, cleansing emotional pain while giving a common universal language. I explore with the client many curiosities of the human condition. Helping to connect the behaviors that motivate us to balance our individual strengths and inherit capacity for good social interest.

I believe in fostering creative imagination and illuminating the stories found within. I aim to find belongingness and connection with clients where storytelling through art and expression becomes an active process of investigating our perceptions, identities, and communications more effectively through the forms and symbols we make. Supporting, challenging, and witnessing clients' journeys of re-creation is the starting place where I can begin to help clients find healing and freedom in their present circumstances.

Challenges visit everyone, and every person has a story to tell. I welcome couples, families, adults, teens, and tweens. As an Art Therapist, I rely on the creative process and narrative therapy to craft a safe space for you to grow. This healing work is a collaborative process of establishing your preferred relationships with yourself, your people, and your world. My contribution to this co-construction of your transforming story is rooted in my decade of training in an earth-based wisdom tradition.

Where do you you heal? Is it always talk? I have worked with children/families/ individuals most of my career and have had to think of different ways to process feelings. For young children it's play, for older children doing art or games. For adults it may be changing one’s perspective. Brain science confirms that these methods are effective for emotional regulation. The most successful factor in therapy is the therapeutic relationship. I honor that. I partner with you on this journey. Some clients bring two session issues,others bring trauma that may need neuropsychological approaches.

Hello. If you are looking for someone to support you through a difficult time, you will receive compassion, healing and wisdom from me. I specialize in helping people heal from depression, anxiety, injury, divorce, trauma and abuse. If you are interested in regaining or reaching new levels of accomplishment, I can also help. I believe we need one another to maximize our potential. We have a cutting edge collaborative team of professionals committed to assisting you with positive mind-body-spirit connection. Offering Consulting, Counseling, Biofeedback, & Mediation. We are here to help maximize your potential!