What to Expect
Reaching out for support for your child can feel like a big step. The process here is designed to be straightforward, low-pressure, and honest.
Getting Started
Reach Out
Use the contact form or email to share a bit about what's going on for your child. You don't need to have everything figured out. Just a general sense of your concerns is enough.
Schedule a Consultation
We'll set up a brief phone consultation to talk about your child, answer your questions, and figure out together whether the studio feels like a good fit. This is also your chance to ask me anything.
Begin Sessions
If it feels right, we'll schedule ongoing sessions and begin working together in the studio.
What Sessions Look Like
Sessions are 50 minutes and take place in the studio. The work is active, hands-on, and responsive to what each child needs on a given day. A session might involve painting, sculpting, or building, but it might just as easily involve spontaneous play, movement, embodied improvisation, or imaginative exploration. Nothing is scripted. Many sessions move fluidly between making, moving, and talking. Occasionally, when it serves the child and the work, sessions may move outside into the natural environment around Stillwater.
I create and play alongside children, entering the creative space with them, following their lead, and responding in the moment. The structure is flexible because every child is different, and because the most important therapeutic moments often happen when a child feels free enough to go wherever they need to go.
For Parents
Parents are an important part of this process, especially with younger children. I work collaboratively with families while also creating a safe and trusting therapeutic space for the child or teen. My goal is to keep you informed and involved in a way that respects your child's privacy and the trust they're building in therapy.
Reaching out can feel vulnerable, and I take that seriously. My aim is to make the process feel respectful, clear, and supportive from the very first conversation.
Show and Shares
Once a month, I offer something called a Show and Share: a small, informal exhibition of your child's individual work from recent sessions. Parents are the audience.
It's a chance to see what your child has been making, to hear a little about what the work has meant, and to reflect together. For many families, these become meaningful moments of connection, a way to understand what's been happening in the studio and to offer your child the experience of being truly seen.
Show and Shares are always an invitation, never a requirement. Some children look forward to them. Others aren't ready, and that's completely okay. When the time is right, the opportunity is there.
Common Questions
This is a private-pay practice, and I do not bill insurance directly.
Working outside the insurance model gives me the flexibility to meet each child where they are, not where a diagnosis or billing code says they should be. Every child is a unique blend of strengths, challenges, and experiences. Private pay allows me to work with the whole child rather than treating a label, and to use the approaches that are actually the best fit rather than the ones a system requires. It also means greater privacy and more individualized care for your family.
I work with children and teens.
Embodied arts therapy uses creative, hands-on, developmentally appropriate ways of processing emotions and experiences. Depending on the child and the clinical fit, this may include art-making, sculpture, movement, sensory-based work, or other expressive approaches. Your child doesn't need any artistic ability. The process is about expression, not production.
Yes. The work here is studio-based and hands-on, which is central to the therapeutic approach. Sessions take place in person in Stillwater.
Reach out through the contact form or by email. From there, we'll schedule a brief consultation to talk through your concerns and see if the studio feels like the right fit for your child.