As a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Art Therapist and Board Certified Art Therapist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area, my focus is on helping you find emotional outlets, create support systems, and gain insight into what has been creating depression or anxiety or other disorder in your life, or in the life of your teen or pre-teen. I am trained in a wide range of therapeutic approaches, and will tailor our sessions to meet your individual needs.
I treat individuals and families; teens, transition-age youth (18-24), and adults. My clinical approaches include Neurodevelopmental Art Therapy (NDAT) with techniques for dealing with developmental and relational trauma, Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy (MBAT) with breathing and meditation techniques, and Internal Family Systems. I also teach mindful self-compassion which is strongly predictive of well-being, and lower levels of anxiety and depression. The emotional right brain is dominant in all forms of psychotherapy which is especially true in child and adolescent therapies. Learning resilience and self-compassion are key components on the path to mental, physical, and emotional wellness. My website is dweinapplemft.com
I incorporate art making, art journaling, mindful awareness, guided imagery, and other creative coping skills designed to empower you beyond the therapy session. No artistic talent is needed to participate in Art Therapy, only a willingness to suspend self-criticism and judgment, and to trust your own intuition.
Currently a board member of Arts Unity Movement (AUM), a non-profit that promotes wellness and healing through the transformative power of the expressive and performing arts. As a visual arts therapist, I often partner with a dance/movement therapist through CCMotion to offer experiential well-being workshops to organizations. [A web designer in a previous career, I designed my own site as well as those for AUM and CCMotion]. I have also newly joined the advisory panel of an Israeli startup seeking to support parents of children and teens through analysis and treatment based on their children’s drawings and behavioral changes that are cause for their concern.
