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 read the books. Tried talk therapy, the yoga, the meditation. Maybe even ended up at a specialist's office for physical pain 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 in rooms where you deserve to take up space, pouring everything into everyone else while your own needs sit quietly in the corner, waiting.

The resentment builds slowly. So does the exhaustion. Somewhere in the middle of all the performing and holding it together, you lose the thread back to yourself.

That's usually what people tell me when they first reach out: I don't know where to start.

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. 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 and you say yes anyway.

Together we can find a different doorway in.

You've been trying to think your way through something that lives in your body.

YOU WANT TO…

✔️ Stop abandoning yourself every time someone needs something from you

✔️ Understand the patterns that keep running your life

✔️ Reconnect with the version of yourself that got silenced somewhere along the way

✔️ Trust your own knowing instead of outsourcing it to others

✔️ Be in tune with your body, not just your mind

✔️ Feel at home in your own skin to live a more vibrant life

Art therapist, Leanne Morton, organizing art therapy materials in Glendale, CO.
Sunflower painting by Leanne Morton, art therapist and founder of Wild Sunflower Wellness in Denver, Colorado.

MY APPROACH

In here, your anxiety can be a tangle of black lines + your grief might feel like a heavy brick.

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.

When you're ready to do the deep work, I'm here.

FAQs

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 together honors your whole self: mind, body, and spirit.