Art Therapy 艺术治疗
Art therapy is an expressive mental health profession that uses creativity and active art-making to support emotional, mental, and overall wellbeing for individuals, families, and groups. During art therapy sessions, a wide range of modalities may be used, including drawing, painting, mixed media, collage, sculpture, doll-making, journaling, creative writing, photography, music, as well as embodied practices such as meditation, movement, and dance. It is a profession that celebrates arts of all kinds.
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My professional art therapy experience is consisted of multiple clinical settings, including adult inpatient psychiatry, addiction recovery center (PROS program), as well as outpatient mental health clinic. I currently work at a certified community behavioral health clinic mainly serving immigrant families from diverse backgrounds. My clients include children, adolescents, and adults. I conduct both individual and family sessions, as well as facilitate multiple weekly art therapy groups at the clinic. Privately, I have been facilitating many art-as-therapy as well as art-and-dance therapeutic experience workshops. My approach is based on the belief that art-making is inherently therapeutic. Creating art promotes creative self-expression, mindfulness, autonomy and agency, hope and resilience, as well as nervous system regulation. My orientation in practice is relational, person-centered, trauma-informed, and strength-based.
✨ workshop highlights ✨
Magical Creatures
March 5, 2026
co-facilitated with art therapist Avni Rajpal
Movement Workshop
February 25, 2026
This 1.5h Therapeutic Movement workshop focuses on providing a supportive and inclusive space for people to come together during this cold winter - to warm up, and to build connection through guided mindful movement. The sequences are designed to help explore a healing dialogue between participant’s own body and spirit, as well as engage in a non-verbal conversation with those around them. The guided workshop introduces embodied practices such as meditation, energy flow, gestural expression, improvisation, and breathwork.
Art and Dance Therapy Experience
May 31, 2025
co-facilitated with art therapist Monica Hofstadter
A workshop that intergrates art therapy with dance and nature. It combines art making and dance into a socially connetive and introspective practice. The experience includes both individual art making and collctive movement expressions. The setting is at Prospect Park, allowing participants to engage with the natural world as a surface and as a soundtrack.
Art Therapy for Dancers
March 23, 2025
Noticing the need for dancers to have a space for healing and building therapeuic connections, I designed this art therapy workshop for dancers. A dancer is defined broadly here, anyone who feels connected to movement can be a dancer. The workshop included two parts: first is group energy sharing and connection through dance, and then individual art making.
Dance and Wellbeing
three workshops in 2023
Dancing freely has brought me much joy and healing, and I offered these workshops to share this practice with others. Guiding prompts are provided throughout the whole hour and participants are encouraged to explore their bodies and build dance language in their own pace. It is a safe space for everyone, regardless of dance level, to explore their creative expression, release, and have fun.
Group Art Making Experience
September 22, 2023
An art-as-therapy experience that focused on the healing nature of art-making and community building.
Tucking in Nature
multiple workshops in 2023
Participants are instructed to adopt a small natural object from the selection, and to create a comforting bed for it, tucking it in using wool and wool felting technique. The workshops are designed to facilitate warm, soft, and caring feelings. Animal wool fibers and small natural objects are chosen to help the participants to tap into the nurturing side and connect with nature and spirituality.
Treasures! Beading Workshop
June 24, 2023
Beading is a mindful and meditative practive that have deep roots in many different cultures. It can help participants to connect with culture, relieve stress and anxiety, as well as boost self-esteem. It allows feelings to be manifested in a tangible and practical way.