IN-PERSON IN DENVER + GLENDALE | ONLINE ACROSS CO + ME
Art Therapy for Women
who are ready to heal deeper than words can go
You've been trying to think your way through something that lives in your body.
You've read the books. You've listened to the podcasts. You may have tried talk therapy, yoga, meditation, maybe even found yourself at a specialist's office trying get relief from physical pain that no one can quite locate.
You know your patterns. You can name them. And still, at the end of the day, you're apologizing for things you're not even sorry for, shrinking yourself at work or in groups, and pouring everything you have into everyone else while your own needs sit quietly in the corner, waiting.
The resentment builds slowly. So does the exhaustion. You move through your days doing what's expected, being who everyone needs you to be, wearing a mask of yourself that fits. But somewhere in the middle of all that performing and people-pleasing and holding it together, you lose the thread back to yourself. You don't even know where to start.
That's usually what people tell me when they first reach out: I don't know where to start.
Sometimes they've tried everything. Sometimes someone who loves them finally said, out loud, that they were worried.
Here's what I've come to understand after a decade of doing this work: you can't think your way out of something your body has been holding for years.
Talk therapy, self-help, even the most beautiful insights — they work with your mind. But the grief, the fear, the patterns that keep replaying — those live in the body. In the chest. The throat. The place that goes tight when someone asks too much of you and you say yes anyway. Healing means going there, and that's exactly where art therapy takes us.
Together we can find a different doorway in.
In here, your anxiety can be a tangle of black lines + your grief might feel like a heavy brick.
MY APPROACH
I believe healing happens when we feel safe enough to acknowledge the places we've been keeping in the shadows — when we turn a light on in the dark and let those parts finally be seen. We don't always have to talk about it directly. The art holds what's been too big, too formless, or too frightening to say out loud. And once it's on the page, it no longer feels so heavy.
This is also a space that honors all of who you are, including the parts that connect to something bigger. Whether your sense of the sacred lives in nature, the Divine, or simply an inner knowing you've never quite trusted, that belongs here too. Healing isn't just psychological. It's spiritual. It's embodied. It's the whole of you, finally in the same room at the same time.
One of my favorite things to do is ask the artwork what it would say if it could speak. The answers are always come from your own wisdom, waiting for a safe enough moment to be heard.
Nothing you bring in is too dark, too messy, or too much. And we'll laugh, too.
Art therapy can help you…
FINALLY STOP PERFORMING
You've spent so long being who everyone needs you to be that you've lost the thread back to yourself. Here, you get to take the mask off.
GIVE YOUR HARDEST FEELINGS A CONTAINER OF THEIR OWN
When grief, rage and shame take form on the page, they become something you can look at — something you're no longer alone with.
GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD AND INTO YOUR BODY
When your hands are making something, your nervous system gets to feel safe enough to tell the truth your mind keeps editing.
RECONNECT WITH YOUR CREATIVITY AS A SOURCE OF WISDOM
Your creativity can be how you process, how you know things + how you heal. It's been waiting for a space safe enough to come back to life.
HEAL AT THE ROOT, NOT JUST THE SURFACE
The books, the podcasts, the talk therapy can always go where the pain actually lives. Art therapy works with your mind, your body, and your spirit, all at once.
TRUST YOURSELF AGAIN
That inner voice buried under everyone else's needs? Let’s find it together. The real work is self-trust. And it changes everything.
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
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No artistic experience or skill is needed for art therapy, and this is especially true in my Glendale, CO practice. What you need is a willingness to show up and see what comes.
Art therapy isn't about making something good; it's about real expression and what you learn about yourself through your creative process.
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Art therapy sessions at Wild Sunflower Wellness are intentionally flexible. Sometimes we start with a short art check-in to see where you are emotionally that day. Sometimes we begin with words, and when we hit a stuck point, I'll offer an art prompt to help us go deeper.
Sometimes we make art the whole session, or I send you home with a creative invitation to bring back the following week. There's no one-size-fits-all approach. We follow what's alive in you that day.
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Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses creative expression such as drawing, painting, collage or mark-making, to access emotions, memories, and patterns that live beyond words.
In my Denver-area practice, I use art therapy to help women heal at the root rather than just manage symptoms. It works with your mind, body, and spirit simultaneously, which is something talk therapy alone can't always do.
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My rate is $185 for a 50-minute session. I provide superbills for potential out-of-network insurance reimbursement. You can check your benefits here.
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Honestly, no — and I'd rather tell you that upfront. Art therapy isn't the best fit if you only want to talk about your feelings without going deeper, or if you're not quite ready to do things differently.
This work asks you to get a little uncomfortable. Not because discomfort is the goal, but because that's where real change lives.
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I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Art Therapist (LPC, ATR) trained at Naropa University in Transpersonal Art Therapy — one of the few programs in the country that integrates spirituality and somatic healing into the art therapy framework. That means our work honors your whole self: mind, body, and spirit.