Suzanne Aldis Routh
Expressive Arts Practitioner & Counsellor
Suzanne is a calm and engaging counselor and ‘solution focused’ practitioner who creates safe places for individuals to explore and find what they need.
As a consultant in social ability, leadership and creativity, she has worked with small groups, large groups, individuals, and couples, helping them discover whatever it is they need, inside and outside of themselves, to find a new way to be in the world, if that is what they want.…
Elisha Alladina
Expressive Arts Practitioner, Social Worker
Elisha Alladina is an Expressive Arts Practitioner and Registered Social Worker(MSW & RSW). She has worked with adults who have faced domestic violence, homelessness, mental health issues, and addictions. Elisha has also facilitated expressive arts groups for children and youth in SickKids Hospital’s psychiatry unit, through the Arts Healing Hearts program.
Norma Araiza, RP, EXAT
RP, MFA Dance Ethnology, Social Psychologist,Expressive Arts Therapist, Educator, Performing Artist, Board member
Norma works at Hospice Toronto as an Expressive Arts Therapist with people with life threatening illnesses. She also deals with issues of grief and bereavement, anticipatory grief and loss. She works with different modalities and is open to work with anything that helps her clients to express themselves. She also brings elements from her Indigenous background into her practice.…
Johanne Ascoli
Expressive Arts Therapist
I offer expressive arts therapy workshops and sessions to groups and individuals with an aim to resource, heal and support a remembering of Self as Soul. My approach is gentle, collaborative, intuitive, creative, soulful, strength-based, non-pathologizing, somatic, trauma-informed, healing centred and person centred.
My practice has led me to work with women survivors of violence, children with exceptionalities (autism spectrum, ADHD, ADD, etc.), young adults with mental health and substance use challenges, women with experience in the justice system, and humans living with C-PTSD.…
Lorraine Aston
Registered Dance/Movement Therapist, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Master’s in Applied Sport Psychology
As a dance/movement therapist, I work with clients using a strength-based, collaborative, creative and embodied approach. Together, we focus on goals that are meaningful to you and on strengthening your mind and body’s capacity to cope, heal, adapt and flourish. Clients are often drawn to this work because they want to feel more at home in their bodies, draw upon creativity as a healing resource, and move more effectively towards their goals.…
Asta Au
ExAT (in training), M.A (Candidate)
I am a second-generation, Chinese Canadian and a settler living in the Greater Toronto Area. I also identify as cisgender, able-bodied, queer, neurodivergent and Chinese. My pronouns are she/her.
I’m playful, goofy and love to laugh. My sense of humour can be dark sometimes. I am a lover of all things cute and fluffy.…
OEATA respects and honours the work of our:
- Expressive Arts Practitioners (EAP)
- Expressive Arts Therapists (ExAT)
- Peer Movement Specialists (ExA or ExAT and /or RP)
- Registered Psychotherapist, ExAT’s (RP, ExA or ExAT)
- Affiliates (Training institutes, Supportive Businesses)




