Are you looking to resolve recurring personal problems, get to know yourself better, improve your mood, or make concrete changes to your daily life? My goal is to help you use your inner resources to create a life in your image.
Vera Heller. PhD Psychotherapist / Art therapist / Visual artist
The verbal and art psychotherapy sessions are offered to adults, couples, and families.
Drawing on extensive professional experience, my work integrates psychodynamic and humanistic existential orientations, as well as elements of cognitive-behavioral (CBT), systemic, and narrative therapies. You can choose between verbal or art psychotherapy, or opt for a combination of both.
Integrative psychotherapy is a creative practice that integrates several approaches, depending on the context. It adapts to your needs. Its goal is to improve your well-being and increase your motivation to make changes in your life.
Here are some of the common issues that can be addressed through individual sessions: depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, childhood wounds, relationship difficulties, bereavement, separation, self-esteem, burnout, family or couple difficulties, immigration and acculturation, creative blockages.
Far from being the prerogative of artists alone, creativity is part of our daily lives. It reflects our psychological health and gives meaning to our existence. The current valuing of rational faculties to the detriment of the individual’s imaginative resources may lead to a loss of reference points and a feeling of inner emptiness. Developing creativity through art, psychotherapy, and play helps establish a better balance between rational and emotional capacities. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), art and creativity contribute to enhancing mental health.
Offered in videoconference (Zoom), art therapy workshops combine visualization, artistic creation, writing, and group sharing. While facilitating self-expression and the development of imagination, they will allow you to explore your inner world and share it with other participants.
Go in search of your "personal myth" and grasp the common thread of your life! Combining artistic creation, storytelling, writing and group sharing, this workshop offers the opportunity to revisit your life story and integrate scattered fragments of experiences into a coherent narrative. "In order to live well, to ensure the coherence of our lives, we compose a heroic story about ourselves; in this way, we attempt to illustrate our essential realities. Enduring human truths come first and foremost from ancient myths that have endured through time" (McAdams, 1993).
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The shadow contains everything that a person does not want to be. Welcoming this disavowed part of ourseleves with compassion allows us to access a better psychic balance. In this workshop, artistic expression will serve as a catalyst for a process of reconciliation between two fundamental aspects of being, shadow and light.
The main theme of this workshop concerns women’s individuation, which involves a dive into the deeper areas of our inner lives. The workshop is inspired by an ancient Sumerian myth that tells of the descent of the goddess Inanna into the underworld to meet Ereshkigal, "her shadow sister". After facing a series of great trials, Inanna returns to her kingdom transformed. The workshop invites you to contemplate the similarities between the goddess' journey and your own. The artistic process will lead you to envision your life as a path towards individuation.
