Zadé Helena Landegger, B.A., M.S., ATR-P is an Artist, Instructor, and Creative Arts Therapist, with their M.S. in Art Therapy and Counseling from the College of New Rochelle and B.A. in Language and Fine Arts from Georgetown University. Helena (they/them, she/her, siya) would love to see Expressive Arts become better integrated into education, mental health, and spiritual wellness care. Currently they are working towards their Licensed Creative Art Therapy credential (LCAT) while providing virtual mental health services in the State of New York. Helena has experience providing specialized mental health care to clients ranging in ages from pediatrics to end-of-life care. After studying art therapy as applied in oncology/hematology, and palliative care settings, they worked as a psychosocial rehabilitation therapist supporting adults in inpatient psychiatric care in New York City. Zadé Helena is able to provide psychotherapy services through teletherapy with Footprints Mental Health Counseling in the Bronx, New York. They also teach art classes to National City School District children in grades 3rd - 6th with A Reason to Survive, a non-profit organization providing free art programming in San Diego, C.A.
Art is a powerful tool for healing.
Art therapy can help people to resolve conflicts, improve interpersonal skills, manage problematic behaviors, reduce negative stress, and achieve personal insight. Art therapy also provides an opportunity to enjoy the life-affirming pleasures of art making.
- American Art Therapy Association (ATTA)
About Art Therapy
Art therapy is a type of psychotherapy which employs visual imagery and play to provide psycho-social care by facilitating expressive experiences. The basic tenets of art therapy rely on creativity, reconciling a client's emotional or psychological conflicts and creating personal growth through increased self-awareness.
In an art therapy session, art-making is used to synthesize experience, trauma, and emotions as catalysts for personal transformation. No prior experience with art is necessary - anyone is welcome.
“Art is the meeting ground of the world inside and the world outside.”
As a non-binary artist, advocate, activist, and therapist, I often work with LGBTQIA individuals going through transitions, families dealing with interpersonal issues, individuals struggling with self-esteem, families of immigrants, adoptees, multicultural or racially-mixed communities, people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, individuals going through transitions of loss and grieving, and those who may be dealing with adverse stress, depression, anxiety, and trauma.
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