Welcome to ATCC !
We are accepting new clients !
Ages 8+

Groups

Resilient Roots; An empowerment, self-actualization, stress reduction, and mindfulness group.

Who? A co-ed group for kids ages 12 and up who enjoy self-exploration through the use of the creative process.

About? Using mindfulness principles as the framework for art-making, introducing tools for stress reduction to promote balance, energy, and self-resilience. Encouraging group members to reflect internally and externally. In the last group, clients will each create a mini zen garden to take home and prizes will be raffled.

Group Themes:

self-awareness promoting imagination, encouraging advocacy, exploring empathy

encouraging self-confidence, building emotional resilience, promoting balance, safety, and trust

Where? Art Therapy & Creative Counseling LLC; 80-1 Plains Rd. Essex, CT

When? Wednesday, October 12 - November 30 th 5-6 pm (8 weeks)

Facilitator: Susan Holmes, B.A. Psychology, Expressive Arts Facilitator, Master Reiki Practitioner, REACE eligible

Availability: 6-8 participants

To register call Heather Bushey at 860.754.6234 Or email: [email protected]

Registration is required to secure a spot. Insurance accepted

Circle of Security Parenting Program

This is a program for parents who want to increase satisfaction in their relationships with their children, to increase confidence in their parenting, and to decrease con:lict in the family.

Did you know...

Children who are more secure are more able to enjoy happiness with their parents, turn to their parents when in trouble, solve problems on their own, have lasting friendships, have higher self-esteem, and more!

This program is researched based, and proven to be effective in increasing secure parent-child relationships!

This 8-week program will be beginning Nov [email protected] 5pm

If interested call immediately to secure your spot.

Where? Art Therapy & Creative Counseling; 80 Plains Rd. Essex, CT Facilitator: Rebecca Tydeman, LMFT

Welcome and thank you for your interest in our expressive arts practice!

Below are the populations we serve!

Adolescent

Children 8+

Adults

Couples

Art Therapy & Creative Counseling is a counseling and creative arts center specializing in a comprehensive approach to psychotherapy. Together we assist our clients to facilitate the power of the creative process to foster therapeutic and introspective change. We work with children, adolescents, individuals and families as well as provide group therapy.

Our individualized approach to therapy is very different. We use a creative arts frame work as the foundation for working with clients. We are a collaborative holistic group of clinicians some of which are Nationally Registered Art Therapists and or Expressive Arts Therapists. We offer this unique method of counseling as one of the primary modalities for self expression and introspective change.

One of our comfortable multi-use offices

Art therapy encourages the brain to relax and not over process, much like physical movement would. This allows the nervous system to calm and the subconscious state to emerge.