My name is Morgan and I am a Professional Art Therapist. In 2012 I started a small private practice, ArtBeat Art Therapy Studio. Since May 2014, I have been offering Art Therapy services and programming in beautiful Northwest BC, and for the last couple years I have been hosting weekly Pop-up Community Studio Art Nights at the Fairlie Cafe.
Art Therapy is not only a creative activity but also a safe, therapeutic process that is both healing and life enhancing. It is client-centered; able to meet the needs, challenges and abilities of each client supported by an art therapist armed with experience, insight and a wealth of art-based therapeutic programs, exercises and activities.
Art Therapy can be a primary or adjunctive mental health service. This means that an art therapist may be your only source of therapeutic support, or they may work along side or in a team with other health care providers such as your General Practitioner, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors and other health professionals. In art therapy your information and creative work is subject the strictest confidentiality.
Art Therapy can accommodate people of all ages and level of physical ability, it can be short or long-term. No artistic skill is necessary!
Art Therapy focuses on the journey more so than the destination - it is time and space for exploration and expression of yourself in a safe and therapeutic creative environment.
‘Great-Grandmother’, assembled by 3 generations of the Reinsbakken FamilyArt Therapy is not only a creative activity but also a safe, therapeutic process that is both healing and life enhancing. It is client-centered; able to meet the needs, challenges and abilities of each client supported by an art therapist armed with experience, insight and a wealth of art-based therapeutic programs, exercises and activities.
Art Therapy can be a primary or adjunctive mental health service. This means that an art therapist may be your only source of therapeutic support, or they may work along side or in a team with other health care providers such as your General Practitioner, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors and other health professionals. In art therapy your information and creative work is subject the strictest confidentiality.
Art Therapy can accommodate people of all ages and level of physical ability, it can be short or long-term. No artistic skill is necessary!
Art Therapy focuses on the journey more so than the destination - it is time and space for exploration and expression of yourself in a safe and therapeutic creative environment.
Goals in Art Therapy are SMART:
DBT Skills practice through art also cover goals, specifically:
"Materials provide the source of inspiration in art making for some people. Having a range of materials available that offers different qualities, such as ease of control, fluidity, resistance, malleability, softness, rigidity, massiveness, delicacy, containment, expansiveness, cleanliness, messiness, and so on, may be all that is necessary to ensure a ‘good fit’ and sufficient motivation for some clients."
(Catherine Moon, Studio Art Therapy, 2002)
Materials included for Individual and Family Group Sessions (up to 6). Materials fee will be added for Workshops and classes larger than 6 students.
“The art studio functions like a spa, a watering place for the soul. The elements of the therapeutic studio are never limited to the patient, the artwork, and the art therapist. As the therapeutic properties of the spa are discovered, people will come to it with a sense of what they need. Or they will come with an open and flexible mind, knowing only that they are in need, and that the therapeutic environment has many things to offer. The treatment will emerge through the process of a person’s interaction with the place.”
(Shaun McNiff, Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul, 2004)
In BC the professional standards and Code of Ethics of Art Therapy are defined by the BC Art Therapy Association (BCATA), and the Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA).
Art making can be an enriching experience and life enhancing on its own, however art therapy reaches farther to explore and express core issue(s) in a safe and therapeutic environment.
"Therapy must touch this spot; it must move from the beautiful wounded condition into the actual present hurt."
(James Hillman, A Blue Fire, 1989)
I have a BSc. in Psychology from UNBC (2005), as well as a Visual Arts Diploma from RDC (2007). In 2011 I graduated with a post-graduate diploma in Art Therapy from the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute (VATI). From that day on I have been practicing Art Therapy and I call myself an Art Therapist. In 2019 my work became DBT-informed and continues to focus on the healing, growth and well-being of clients through creative exploration and expression utilizing various modalities of art (i.e. drawing, painting, clay work, collage, jewellery making, etc), and evidenced-based life skills (DBT Skills practice through art, 2020).
Hi, I'm Morgan! I have a BSc. in Psychology from UNBC (2005), as well as a Visual Arts Diploma from RDC (2007). In 2011 I graduated with a post-graduate diploma in Art Therapy from the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute (VATI). From that day on I have been practicing Art Therapy and I call myself an Art Therapist. In 2019 my work became DBT-informed and continues to focus on the healing, growth and well-being of clients through creative exploration and expression utilizing various modalities of art (ie, drawing, painting, clay work, collage, jewellery making, etc), and evidenced-based life skills (DBT Skills practice through art, 2020).
In my spare time I try to be an active member of CATS Community Pottery Studio, teach a hand-building class here and there. As well, I am working (volunteering) towards establishing an Art Hive Initiative in the Northwest - a non-profit, low-barrier art studio space, open to all community members. My long-term hope and goal is to grow a NW Arts & Health network by offering and supporting this Art Hive Initiative within communities throughout Northwest BC. Let's Connect, Create, Communicate, Heal and Grow Together! If you are interested in this initiative feel free to email me, I would love to hear from you!
In my spare time I try to be an active member of CATS Community Pottery Studio, teach a hand-building class here and there. As well, I am working (volunteering) towards establishing an Art Hive Initiative in the Northwest - a low-barrier art studio space, open to all community members. My long-term hope and goal is to grow a NW Arts & Health network by offering and supporting this Art Hive Initiative within communities throughout Northwest BC. Let's Connect, Create, Communicate, Heal and Grow Together! If you are interested in this initiative feel free to email me, I would love to hear from you!
I am a Professional Member with the BC Art Therapy Association and we support FACT BC! Why? Art therapy is a counselling therapy. But the sad fact is counselling therapy is an unregulated profession in BC and anyone can call themselves a counselling therapist. This means there is no regulating body with legislative authority to ensure professional competencies, ethical practices or accountability. Because of this, British Columbian's are at risk of emotional, mental and financial harm. Because of this I support FACT BC.
FACT BC is the Federation of Associations for Counselling Therapists in BC. They believe that a regulating body for counselling designated under the Health Professions Act, like the College of Physicians and Surgeons, would provide the ongoing competency framework and regulatory support necessary to promote competent, ethical counselling therapy in BC.
DBT skills practice through art. Strength-based, culturally-sensitive, evidence-based resources and courses for parents, caregivers, and frontline workers.
Clients can self-refer or be referred by parents or professionals. If you are self-referring, please book a free consultation to get started. If you would like to refer your child or client, please contact me to start the intake process.
Online (via Jane) or in-home sessions in the Terrace area.
Upstairs at The Fairlie Cafe
3100 Kalum Street, Terrace, BC
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