Catherine Marrion - OEATA Member Directory

Catherine Marrion, MA (Expressive Arts Therapy), IFS (Level One), SMTT (Somatic Movement Therapy), MFA (Theatre Performance).  I am an Expressive Arts Therapist and IFS Practitioner in private practice in Toronto working primarily with individual adults experiencing depression, anxiety, addictive behaviour, grief, life-change issues, and other obstacles to moving forward with hope, pleasure and inner support. It is an enduring joy and an honour to accompany my clients on their healing journeys. I am now offering Internal Family Systems (sometimes known as ‘parts work’) as an integrated element in my arts-based practice if it is appropriate and desired by the client. I have witnessed and personally experienced the transformative power of making art and the freeing power of creative play, which can be deeply enhanced through getting to know and heal our inner family of parts. An embodied approach through all the art forms is a strong value in my work, which is well supported by my somatic movement therapy background and extensive theatre experience as an actor, director, coach, and as a voice and movement teacher in a conservatory-style theatre training program.  I enjoy both one-on-one and group work as a therapist and offer both online and in-person options. I am comfortably multi-modal and maintain personal practices in visual arts, writing, singing, pilates and yoga. I have facilitated “Giving Voice” expressive arts workshops for CATA and IEATA conferences in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg and Berkeley, California.