Nurturing intuitive healers
and creative spirits
Art Therapy and intuitive healing practices for more
connected, authentic, intuitive, and creative lives
Meet Anna
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist
registered Reiki practitioner
Anna W. McCarthy is a queer identifying licensed creative arts therapist and certified Reiki Practitioner. She has a passion for helping people find comfort and healing through the use of art for self-exploration and expression. Anna provides individual and group art therapy sessions, workshops, energy healing services, and Tarot card readings. She is also an artist (but, we all are!) and considers a cup of coffee and some quiet time to make art the perfect start to any morning.
Anna creates a safe and inclusive space for the LGBTQIA+ community and encourages clients to slow down, connect within, trust their intuition, and live more authentic and fulfilling lives. Her mission is to empower people to find their authentic selves, to appreciate and develop their creative and artistic style and confidence, and to use art materials to cope with life's challenges.
Why Art Therapy?
Confidence
Creating is inherent in us as humans, but we just stop practicing after childhood. Repetition creates confidence and dare I say...mastery?
Choice and control
You get to choose the mediums and have complete autonomy in whether you even choose to create or spend your session talking instead. You end up learning your choice was the right one all along. You learn to trust your choices.
Safety
Art Therapy allows you to create images that can express all matter of feelings and experiences, held confidentially by the art and art therapist alike. No one decides what your art means but you.
Telling your story
Language and speech is linear and there is only so much you can say in a 60 minute session. With art, however, you can express ALL of it much more quickly AND it no longer exists only within your mind and heart. Your story becomes tangible and more easily sharable, if you so choose.
Insight and Intuition
When we step back and allow the art and our unconscious to take the wheel, it shows us exactly what we need to express and witness within ourselves.
Limitless Coping
In art therapy sessions, you learn to use art materials express traumatic experiences, difficult emotions, hopes, dreams, and worries. This skill is transferrable to your life outside of sessions too. You will learn how to sit with difficulties and express them in a constructive and creative way that will benefit you throughout your life
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Contact Info
Phone
716-539-0082
Address
Exact address provided upon request
North Tonawanda, NY 14120