Creative Activation Therapy (CreATe).

The right hemisphere of the brain houses our creativity, and we all have access to it. Video games, streaming series, and AI are slowly moving us, and future generations, away from a powerful tool that can be used to address our mental health struggles.

Creative activation therapy (CreATe) is a therapeutic modality that helps you to discover your inner muse and its power to address your mental health issues, such as anxiety, anger, depression, and trauma. Whether you are an artist, a writer, a poet, a crafter, or feel you are not creative at all, CreATe can lead you to a new way of thinking and addressing unwanted thoughts and behaviors.

CreATe is not art therapy. It is a modality that focuses on developing your ability to use your own creativity. For those with a creative background, we will identify past creative practices, if they feel they were beneficial, and apply these learned, mindful creative practices to their current behavioral approach. For those more creatively challenged, you will discover new forms of expression and develop your ability to approach life’s challenges using a new, powerful resource to improve your mental health. CreATe promotes an understanding of how to activate new and past creative practices through personal reflection. Subconscious memories, images, sounds, shapes, and colors can represent triggers that affect current functioning, and exploring these triggers using your creativity can lead to undiscovered solutions for anxiety, depression, trauma, and other mental health challenges.

CreATe can be conducted in person or online, either of which can be established as a safe, therapeutic setting with a licensed clinical professional. As with any mental health therapy practice, clients can discuss their thoughts, opinions, feelings, and experiences with the clinician, with confidentiality protected by HIPAA regulations. This trust, combined with developing creativity, can promote richer elements of talk therapy and foster a stronger therapeutic relationship. When combined with psychoeducation, coping skills, and behavioral changes, your own creativity becomes part of a “toolkit” for mental health and growth.