SUPERVISOR DIRECTORY

Terri Roberton, (RP, ExAT, BFA, MLIS) is immersed in the arts from various angles having practiced painting, illustration and animation for many years.

Framework

The ExAT framework includes relational, person-centred, experiential, arts-based, somatic, transpersonal, existential, and phenomenological. Using an Intersectional Anti-Oppression Feminist (IAOF) framework, Terri, an Abolitionist Feminist, has worked with clients on the following issues: Confidence, sexuality, stigma, addictions, relationships, trauma, depression, anxiety, isolation; identity, equity, intersecting, or compartmentalized worlds, age, class, image, physical/developmental/emotional ability. Rekindling connection with personal agency and authenticity and world through creativity. 2SLGBTQIAENMSW+

Definition

Expressive Arts Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that engages the client in a process of open-ended play using the arts interchangeably in order to reconnect with one’s self and with the world. The Expressive Arts Therapist uses kinetic, audial, visual, musical and language arts-based interventions to assist the client into, and out of, a liminal state of exploration. The arts provide an objective container for exploring personal issues outside the body. The method includes sensing, experiencing, reconstructing, validating and evaluating. Spontaneously building on what presents itself with each activity suggests the next to create a structure. The therapist and client pursue curiosity in order to find surprises in the arts. Through the simple process of expressing oneself creatively in the presence of another, the arts can offer new insights to problems, offer alternate ways of being with people, bring to light otherwise hidden internal resources.

Credentials:

• Registered Psychotherapist CRPO #006027
• Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (VIU)
• Sex Therapy certificate (UGuelph)
• Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Level 2 (Diana Fosha)
• Neuro-Affective Relational Model Level 2 (Laurence Heller & Brad Kammer)
• Mindfulness-Based Addiction Recovery Facilitator (V. Mason-John)
• Compassionate Inquiry Approach (Dr. Gabor Maté)
• Con-Current Disorders Certificate (CAMH, U of T Faculty of Medicine)
• Peer Circle facilitation (IAOF Framework)
• BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concordia)
• MLIS (Masters of Library and Information Studies, McGill)
• Expressive Arts Therapy certification from CREATE Institute
• Member of IEATA, OEATA, OAMHP, IACAET, ASTO, CPA

Areas of Experience:

Trained as a visual artist, Terri continues to develop her skills in all the arts. Bridging isolation with connection though the arts is the backbone of her practice. Clients served: All ages, all abilities, 2SLGBTQIAENMSW+ . In compliance with OEATA and CRPO professional development expectations, Terri has pursued additional training in the following areas: Clinical Supervision, Improvisational theatre, Ceramics,  Yoga, Mindfulness, Voice work, Women’s Counselling Referral and Education Centre (WCREC) Anti-Oppression and Feminist Facilitator Training

Rates:

$150 – $200/hr (sliding scale) for individual therapy, couple/ENM constellation therapy.

Clinical Supervision ($150/hr)

Offers:

• A private Expressive Arts Therapy practice in Leslieville. Street parking available. ½ block from Queen St.

Location of practice:

Leslieville practice accessible by streetcar, parking on site.