Elizabeth Nelson (She/Her)

My Approach to Helping

As a therapist, I seek to foster healing in action, play, imagination, wholeness, meaning making, connection, courage, authenticity, a sense of belonging, transformation, agency and resilience in the lives of the individuals I work with. My work is grounded in attachment, trauma informed, and experiential theoretical orientations. Art therapy is a powerful, experiential, expressive arts therapy that helps address that which is difficult to put words to. It focuses not necessarily on the art product, but rather using art in the process of therapy as a lens to access parts of the brain, body and psyche that talk therapy may not fully reach. Humanity has turned to various types of art for millennia to heal, long before therapists in the modern sense existed, and this type of therapy engages in this phenomenon.

My Values as a Therapist

I strive to make space in therapy to examine the impact of my and my clients' social locations and the impact of the systems we are all apart of, knowing this brings a broader and more complete picture in regards to how we all show up in the world.