Therapeutic Arts

Let’s Art About It – Therapeutic Arts is a group therapy program that utilizes art-making to help combat mental and emotional challenges ~ The creative process can foster self-esteem and self-awareness, promote insight, and support cognitive functions, among other benefits for wellbeing. Join the Markham Arts Council for small group sessions finding calm during chaos!

Open to adults of any age, in any location. These sessions will be offered virtually over the course of the year. Led by a Registered Art Therapist, participants will express, explore, and understand their emotions through a variety of art mediums.

Meet the Therapist - Renata Chubb

"As an Expressive Arts Facilitator and Expressive Arts Therapist in Training, I believe that art, sound, movement, words, and play offer great potential for healing and reconnection with self. I am currently a student of Expressive Arts Therapy at the CREATE Institute in Toronto, and have also completed a certificate in Art and Trauma. I have turned to art through so many difficult life experiences – often without even realizing it. My role is to gently guide, work with, and empower individuals in their release of old programs and traumas. Often we do not need words. Without a doubt a space can be made by working with colour, or sounds, tiny movements, our breath. There are many ways to heal our emotional wounds. As an Artist: I am a passionate creator who is learning to share what she creates. I am full of ideas and always working towards releasing judgements of my own creations. I continuously circle back to the beauty and authenticity of intuitive and abstract expressionist art – not focusing on what I see, but on how I feel – how feelings and energy can be interpreted in shape, texture, colour and line."