WS 6
“It was a great calming way to discuss difficult topics. I felt supported through the art therapy session. It gave me more time for self-reflection of my choices in a safe space.“
“It was a great calming way to discuss difficult topics. I felt supported through the art therapy session. It gave me more time for self-reflection of my choices in a safe space.“
WS 4
“Loved the experience! Not the most artistic or creative person myself but I definitely felt included! It helped me channel my inner identity. “
“Loved the experience! Not the most artistic or creative person myself but I definitely felt included! It helped me channel my inner identity.”
WS 2
“It was a powerful experience. Calming, but created un-comfortability and opened the door of emotions that weren’t fully put away. The visual of the mandala was profound.”
“It was a powerful experience. Calming, but created un-comfortability and opened the door of emotions that weren’t fully put away. The visual of the mandala was profound.”
L.N
“Each session with Yoko, since the first one, has been incredibly meaningful and empowering. Yoko’s warm encouragement, insight and compassion allowed me to connect with my deeply buried emotions […] the anger, [the] sadness and grief that have been repressed for so many years, in a safe and profoundly healing way. Experiencing these repressed emotions and rewriting past stories (and therefore altering the emotional responses to these past events) with Yoko’s help was extremely freeing and powerful.
Staying committed to weekly sessions with Yoko was essential to create this momentum in my life towards transformation and growth as well as a deeper connection with my emotions and inner world. …I am now able to notice when my own emotions and the emotions of the others [when they arise].
Yoko made me feel truly seen and heard, and comfortable just being myself. Her wholehearted support, empathy and guidance propelled me to begin this invaluable life changing journey towards healing and transformation with a profound ripple effect on my family and friends. I will always be grateful to her!"
— Adult Client, Individual Therapy and Group Art Therapy
B.N
“I really felt I needed to speak with someone right away and it was fortunate that it was you. At the beginning of our sessions I was in an unusual place for me, in that I was feeling very blue, alone, down and burdened with negative feelings. [By the end of our process] I felt part of a team, a team prepared to deal with the future and some of the past. I felt lighter emotionally, and more positive in almost every way.
[One of the memorable sessions were] where you guided me to confront ‘people’ as if they were actually present …It was so intense, [but] it was very positive for me. I said things during those moments that I have wanted to say for many, many years. [You also] guided me to speak about [the people who have had positive impact on] my life. [This was] a great gift that you helped me to recall and ‘re-see’, at a difficult time in my life.”
— Adult Client, Individual Therapy
J.V
"All I knew is that I loved art as a child, but at the beginning of therapy, I had no idea at the time what art could do for me as a human who was deeply struggling and hurting. Bringing to light the pieces of myself that reading books or gaining more knowledge could not touch. Art therapy has helped renew my sense of self in a world full of confusion and chaos so that I can function in a way that feels so right for me. Art has helped open the way to freedom for me and a knowing of who I am."
— Adult Client, Individual Therapy and Art Therapy
"All I knew is that I loved art as a child, but at the beginning of therapy, I had no idea at the time what art could do for me as a human who was deeply struggling and hurting. Bringing to light the pieces of myself that reading books or gaining more knowledge could not touch. Art therapy has helped renew my sense of self in a world full of confusion and chaos so that I can function in a way that feels so right for me. Art has helped open the way to freedom for me and a knowing of who I am." - Jenn
J.D
“I began meeting with Yoko at a time of caregiver burnout, family turmoil and exhausted relationships. There was a long hoped for adoption disrupting and my older children were transitioning to independence. I was experiencing major guilt, depression and hopelessness. Yoko’s empathetic and nurturing energy created a safe space for me to be vulnerable, she was able to successfully talk me through my internal dialogue and self-criticisms to gain important new perspectives on my and others’ actions in the face of pain. Despite major hesitation with revisiting childhood trauma she worked from my historical stories to the present and there were more than three major breakthrough moments of significant change for me. Through all of this Yoko’s receptive and caring reflection and encouragement were vital to my ability to relax into change and growth.”
— Adult Client, Individual Therapy
S.L
“My sessions with Yoko are very therapeutic and I feel a deep sense of healing and self-connection with each one. Yoko’s genuine care, compassion and guidance has created a safe space for me to explore my inner conflicts and has helped me to heal past wounds.”
— Adult Client, Individual Therapy and Art Therapy