ART THERAPY

“Art therapy combines the creative process and psychotherapy, facilitating self-exploration and understanding. Using imagery, colour and shape as part of this creative therapeutic process, thoughts and feelings can be expressed that would otherwise be difficult to articulate.”
Canadian Art Therapy Association, (2017). http://www.canadianarttherapy.org/what-is-art-therapy/

01 Individual Psychotherapy

Drawing on mindfulness, creative arts therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Polyvagal Theory

10 Week Group Supervision

Join me for a weekly two-hour online session — a gentle journey into self-discovery for emerging therapists, art therapy students and qualifying registered psychotherapists.

Who within you steps forward as you hold space for others?

As therapists, we bring not only our skills and knowledge, but also our full humanity into every session. This 10-week group supervision course offers a warm, supportive space to gently explore how your inner world influences your clinical work.

Together, we’ll explore the principle of Safe and Effective Use of Self (CRPO Foundations 1.4), inviting you to deepen your awareness of how personal experiences, values, and patterns naturally shape your therapeutic presence.

Rooted in the wisdom of Internal Family Systems (IFS), you’ll discover how to recognize the many parts within you — the ones that protect, the ones that carry vulnerability, and the ones that long to heal. At the center of this inner system is your Self — calm, compassionate, courageous, and fully capable of leading with clarity.

We’ll also weave in the creative practice of SoulCollage®, a nurturing process of self-discovery where you’ll create personal collaged cards using imagery and intuition. This gentle, hands-on practice allows you to access your own inner wisdom, offering insight, healing, and creativity along the way.

Throughout these 10 weeks, you’ll be invited to:

Slow down and listen deeply to your own internal experience 
Strengthen your clinical presence with greater ease and authenticity 
Build trust in your Self energy to guide you through challenges 
Express and explore through the creative process of SoulCollage® 
Be part of a kind and supportive community of fellow therapists, witnessing and being witnessed with care

This is a space for nourishment — for you as a person, and for the heart of your work as a therapist.

Spaces are limited. We warmly invite you to join us on this gentle, reflective journey.

As a Registered Canadian Art Therapist and a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, I have been providing supervision for several years.

Individual Psychotherapy

A gentle invitation to slow down, unlearn conditioned habits, and reconnect with your innate creativity and presence. Through guided movement, mindful art-making, and reflective writing, participants will explore practices that support intuition, resilience, and well-being. Drawing on creative arts therapy, meditation, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Polyvagal Theory, the course encourages deep listening to the body and mind. No artistic or writing experience is necessary—this is a process-focused journey open to all. Mindful art making becomes a portal to the present moment—a doorway to a meaningful life.

Individual Mindfulness Through Creativity Program

Move at your own rhythm as you gently slow down, release old patterns, and reconnect with your natural creativity and presence.

The Mindfulness Through Creativity program is lovingly adapted to meet you where you are. Through a blend of movement, mindful art-making, and reflective writing, you’ll explore simple yet profound practices that nurture intuition, resilience, and well-being.

Drawing from the wisdom of creative arts therapy, meditation, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Polyvagal Theory, this course invites you to listen deeply to your body, your emotions, and your inner landscape. No art or writing experience is needed — mindful art-making becomes your doorway into the present moment, gently opening space for healing, insight, and a more meaningful life.

10 Week Mindfulness Through Creativity Program

Mindfulness Through Creativity: Weekly Open Drop-in Group

Join a weekly two-hour online session where we explore what truly matters—beyond the rush of daily life. Following the same session structure of the Mindfulness through Creativity Program, through gentle movement, art-making, and reflective writing, we cultivate presence, creativity, and emotional insight. Together, we will find the extraordinary in the ordinary

Drawing on mindfulness, creative arts therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Polyvagal Theory, this group supports a process of unlearning and letting go. No art or writing experience is required. Come as you are. Each week offers a fresh path into the present moment.

Mindfulness Through Creativity Introduction

The mind is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe. Arriving in this space, we are invited to slow down and witness life as it unfolds. Taking a moment to orient ourselves, we look around—rooted in spacious awareness—and notice the firm support of the ground beneath our feet, recognizing our deep connection to the land.

Mindfulness is the energy we generate when we bring our mind back to our body and become aware of the present moment. By becoming mindful of our breath, we return to the body with curiosity and openness, accepting whatever arises and embodying a state of loving awareness.

In this mindful state, there is nothing to do, nothing to strive for, no destination to reach, and no identity to uphold. Mindful art becomes a sacred portal to the present moment—a doorway through which we can meet whatever emerges, within or around us, with a beginner’s mind. It is an invitation to respond to the world with grace and to surrender to its flow.

Mindfulness Through Creativity Session Structure:

Theme & Intention: Set the focus for your exploration.

Meditation: Find grounding and presence.

Movement: Embody your mindfulness.

Creative Expression: Explore through art-making.

Journaling: Capture your insights.

Sharing (Optional): Connect with others.

Closing Meditation: Integrate your experience.

Who can attend?

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This program is open to all, no matter your experience or skill level. Through movement, creative expression, and reflective journaling, you'll be guided in cultivating greater self-awareness and mindfulness. All that’s needed is the desire to explore and connect with yourself.

Mindfulness Through Creativity

Mindful art is about being completely present with whatever arises in the moment. It offers a gateway into the here and now, encouraging us to approach both our inner world and surroundings with openness and curiosity. Through active participation or quiet surrender, we allow ourselves to become channels for creative flow—without judgment, pressure, or expectation. We become vessels—porous, tender—for process and presence.  There is no need to strive, no path to follow,  no self to uphold.  Only an invitation:  to soften, to release, to surrender.

This practice whispers: 

Unlearn what you’ve been taught. 

Unknow what you thought you knew. 

Dismantle the structures of habit. 

Let yourself be undone.

Meditation becomes less a technique than a rhythm,  a way of walking the world—attuned, alert, alive.  It is not in the pursuit of the grand or the rare,  but in discovering the luminous beauty within the ordinary

We carry the questions our ancestors could not answer. Is this the moment to turn around and remember who we are?

And what is life asking of us now

Maria Teresa Hernandez

Art Therapy

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Individual Psychotherapy

10 Week Group Supervision

Individual Psychotherapy

Individual Mindfulness Through Creativity Program

10 Week Mindfulness Through Creativity Program

Mindfulness Through Creativity: Weekly Open Drop-in Group

Mindfulness Through Creativity Introduction

CONTACT: mthernandez9@gmail.com

The Mindfulness Centre: https://www.mindful.ca