Holly Keen Goldes
ExAT, BA, Expressive Arts TherapistBiography
Holly Keen Goldes
They/them
BA, Trauma informed, Certified Expressive Arts Therapist
Holly is a queer Expressive Arts Therapist. They’re ethnically mixed, half Chinese Canadian. They grew up on Vancouver Island and have lived in Vancouver, China. They’re based out of Cumberland, BC. They work with individual clients online. They also offer in person group workshops in the Comox Valley and online group workshops.
They work with queer and BIPOC clients as well as clients experiencing grief. Holly specializes in helping clients with anxiety, grief, life transitions, child and perinatal loss, trauma, depression, self-confidence and self-development as well as exploring, sexual orientation and gender identity. Holly welcomes members of the BIPOC and 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
Holly allows for a gentle space to explore and heal through the Expressive Arts.
Their main background trainings are in movement and music. They loves to encourage clients to explore through creativity and to honour that no experience is needed at all in this type of work to receive the benefits and healing that the Expressive Arts have to offer.
A session with Holly will allow for a lot of calm, gentle held space for her clients to be and explore exactly who and what they need to be in the moment. They offer gentle suggestions that clients can take or leave, in order to deepen an experience, a movement, or a sound during a session.
Holly holds a connection to nature and to spirituality close at heart. They brings elements of the grounded healing earth and the gentle fluidity and energy of water to their sessions and workshops.
Languages
- English
- French
Areas of Practice
- 2SLGBTQPIA+ Positivity
- ADHD
- Anxiety
- Burnout
- Cultural Safety
- Depression
- Dysregulation
- Ethical Non-Monogamy
- Fertility Issues
- Grief
- Identity-Ethnic
- Identity-Gender
- Identity-Kink Positive
- Identity-Migration
- Life Transitions
- Overwhelm
- Parenting
- Pregnancy-Prenatal-Perinatal
- Racism
- Self Esteem
- Sexuality-2SLGBTQPIA+
- Sexuality-Polyamory-ENM
- Stress
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)


