Art therapy and counseling for children and adults. A calm room, good materials, and someone alongside you while you make sense of things.
Healing isn’t one-size-fits-all. Every plan is built around you: your pace, your goals, the life you’re working toward.
We start with what you need, set goals together, and shape each session around them, at whatever pace feels right.
Shared experience, made in the same room. Groups build belonging and self-awareness, and make isolation a little smaller.
Art therapy pairs creative expression with psychology, a different and often gentler route into things that are hard to say out loud. Paint, clay, pencil, collage: the material you reach for carries meaning, and the making itself is a sensory experience of sight, touch, smell and sound.
My work is to notice what surfaces there with you: to help name it, find where it comes from, and build steady ways to hold it. Over time that becomes something closer to control: recognizing a trigger, understanding it, and choosing what happens next.
Eight things clients tend to carry out of the studio with them.
A Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Board-Certified Registered Art Therapist working with children and adults. Donna uses art as a way in, to express feeling, process experience, and move toward the goals a client sets for themselves.
Her rooms are built for self-exploration: unhurried, well-supplied, and safe enough to be honest in. She is also the founder of Art Smart Studio, the community art studio next door.
Notes on art, healing and practice
Art is more than self-expression. It’s a tool, and a surprisingly direct one, for mental health.
Why the circle keeps coming back, and what happens when a client fills one in.
No cost, no commitment. Just a conversation about what you’re looking for and whether the studio is the right fit.
