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Currently, Sonya is on leave to explore nature and the world. An update on her return to practice will be posted when she has completed her adventure.
Blue Sky Art Therapy is a confidential, creative space where women are supported by a professional art therapist and registered psychotherapist (RP). Through the process of creating, exploring and reflecting, women are encouraged to affirm their inner wisdom and address challenges affecting their mental health and wellness. No art experience is needed. Currently, virtual individual sessions are being offered.
Art therapy and talk therapy are a gentle way to explore and process
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
–Thomas Merton
Individual or group are supported by a professional art therapist to use art materials, the creative process, and the resulting artwork to explore their feelings, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, manage behaviours and addictions, reduce anxiety, and increase self-esteem.
Art therapy begins with a free phone consultation to support your search for a compatible art therapist/ psychotherapist. One-hour sessions offer an empathetic and strengths-based approach to wellness. In each session an art object is created and explored to nurture your well being.
Art therapy groups offer an opportunity to arrive with your own story and agenda to explore the development of self-awareness, self-esteem and social connections. With guidance and nurturing support to foster mental wellness, women share information and experiences.
Sonya maintains professional and quality standards in her therapeutic practice as determined by memberships with Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA) and Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP). She is a registered psychotherapist (RP) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).
Sonya, founder of Blue Sky Art Therapy, has been active in the creative milieu as an artist and former award-winning book designer. Wanting to combine art, mental wellness and healing, Sonya completed her graduate diploma in art therapy at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute (TATI).
Passionate about women issues, Sonya’s award-winning thesis used study participants’ voices and their artwork along with scientific measurements in a mixed method study to examine the impact of positive art therapy interventions in reducing anxiety and increasing hope in newcomer women.
She brings personal and professional experience to her connections with women living with diverse life stories. Sonya uses an empathetic, non-judgmental approach in her art therapy practice with survivors of trauma, women dealing with life transitions, newly parenting mothers; survivors of sexual abuse and intimate partner violence; newcomer women and women living with addictions and eating disorders.
When she isn’t in the studio, Sonya enjoys reading international fiction, travelling, exploring natural landscapes and learning from her two children.
In her quiet, welcoming studio, Sonya provides a safe, confidential space and empathetic support and witnessing for women to express how they think and feel using traditional and alternative art materials. No art experience is needed.
The art making process and the art created allows for a pause—a moment to examine thoughts, feelings, behaviours, strengths and goals. These elements of art therapy are also an opportunity to explore possibilities, clarity and healing.