Our intervening team 

Art therapist, Clinical  Supervisor, Doctoral candidate in clinical psychology, M.A., M.Ed., ATR-BC

Maria is a registered art therapist, a career counselor, a licensed clinical psychotherapist and the former president of the Quebec Art Therapy Association. She is an adjunct professor of art therapy at Concordia University and at l’Université du Québec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, as well as a faculty member at Winnipeg Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy Institute. She collaborates with local non-profit organizations and mental health institutions, developing community-based art studio programs for adolescents and adults who are marginalized due to mental and physical health issues, immigration issues, and poverty. She has founded a clinic in Montreal based on the Expressive Therapies Continuum, providing educational and emotional support to children and families. Her current research interests include media properties and their role in assessment.

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Art therapist, M.A, ATPQ

Martine works with youth, families and adults across a variety of settings and fields, including education, pediatric oncology, palliative care and mental health. She uses art therapy as a tool for well-being and personal development. Her humanistic approach values the person to their full potential, supporting their inner resources as a force for growth. Being also a painter, she believes that the creative process holds incredible potential for therapeutic purposes. Art and visual language promote self-discovery at any developmental age.

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Art therapist, M.A, ATPQ and doctoral candidate in clinical psychology

Mia works mainly with adolescents and adults in community settings, youth centers and in private practice. In 2015, she co-founded Canevas: art therapy center, a private center with the social mission of demystifying art therapy for the general public and offering sessions to everyone, regardless of their income. Inspired by a humanist approach, she believes that each individual has within them the forces necessary to achieve their well-being and these are just waiting to be brought to light through the creative process.

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Art therapist, M.A, ATPQ and doctoral candidate in clinical psychology

Gabrielle is an art therapist with a Masters degree from Concordia and a professional member of the Association des art-therapeutes du Québec (AATQ), as well as co-founder of Canevas: art therapy center. Her professional experience in art therapy is primarily in mental health in community settings, as well in private practice with various young and older populations. Having worked in Quebec and internationally, she has seen that art therapy is a tool that transcends differences and brings us closer to our human values and our potential. She works with a humanist and participatory approach which emphasizes and respects the richness of the lived experiences and the strengths of each one.

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Photographer

Mikaël walks the streets in search of faces and stories to share. His projects took him on the tarmacs bound for Greenland, made him meet artists, passers-by, children, anonymous and ministers, allowed him to witness the difficulties of individuals and their achievements, all through the kaleidoscope of his lenses. He works regularly with many organizations, in order to put his photographic eye to the services of different social causes.

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Danse therapist, M.A. (in progress)

Angélique is a dance artist, adapted dance teacher and dance and movement therapist. Angélique taught economics for ten years before turning to a master's degree in dance and taking dance therapy training at the National Centre for Dance Therapy of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 2019. Today, combining a humanist approach and sensorimotor, Angélique works in schools and community centers with adults and adolescents, autistic, intellectually disabled and physically handicapped. She also gives postural workshops in the corporate environment.

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Certified yoga teacher and founder of Beejuana the School of Life

For more than 10 years, Mireille has been teaching Qigong, meditation and since 2015 yoga and guided deep relaxation (yoga nidra). She has had the privilege of working with a diverse clientele, aged 3 to 90, working with autistic people, cancer patients, family caregivers and people in mourning. These experiences have allowed her to develop her intuition and her ability to adapt to meet individual needs. She wants to pass on simple and easy tools to more people to manage stress and emotions in a caring and inspiring space. She is committed to supporting children so that they reach their full potential. Her passion for the arts has led her to also become a painter in her spare time and she has given several art workshops for both children and adults.

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Art therapist, M.A., ATPQ

Isabelle is an art therapist with a Masters degree from UQAT and is a member of the Association des art-thérapeutes du Québec (AATQ). Her clinical experience is with children, adolescents and women in community and school settings. Writing a research about art therapy and adolescents with learning difficulties and school adaptation gives her a solid foundation in her intervention with this clientele. Artist, Isabelle deeply believes in the benefit of art therapy both in terms of self-expression and in improving the quality of life in general.

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Art therapist, M.A, ATPQ

Julie is an art therapist with a Masters degree from Concordia and she mostly works with immagrant children and families who often come from disadvantaged backgrounds. She has also worked in CHSLDs with the elderly, in shelters with adults suffering from the autism spectrum, intellectual and physical disabilities as well for adults with mental health issues. Inspired by the humanist approach, she is committed to establishing a safe and caring space. She uses the creative process to facilitate the expression of internal experience, the meeting of the deep self in order to move, create, transform and exist from its essence. She believes that the recognition of our strengths, our human qualities as well as living meaningful experiences nurtures self-esteem and self-confidence and allows to create a life that makes sense to be.

Art therapist,  ATPQ

Deniz graduated from the Microprogramme de 2e cycle en art-thérapie at l’Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal the lands and waters of Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, and from a 2.5 years master’s level graduate diploma program at WHEAT (Winnipeg Holistic Expressive Arts Therapies) institute in the Central Canadian plains on Treaty 1 Territory offering the first Indigenized therapeutic arts diploma programs in Canada. Both in-person and online, Deniz has worked with children and adults of diverse backgrounds from women who experienced domestic violence, immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers to the minority population living with HIV. She has extensive experience working with children both privately and in school settings systemically alongside parents. She works through a decolonizing, anti-oppressive, non-binary and trauma-informed lens to enhance resiliency and promote recovery, understanding that personal experiences of trauma are layered in structural intersectionalities & social inequalities. Her aim is to help clients improve their interpersonal relationships, reconnect with themselves and their communities all while using creativity. She uses a holistic person-centered approach, solution-oriented in essence and strength-based including somatic awareness and the multi-arts to counselling. Using narration as well as non-verbal expressions such as drawing, painting, movement, play and poetry helps to articulate life experiences with authenticity, fullness, specificity, structure, beauty, meaning and playfulness. Deniz can provide art therapy sessions both in English, Farsi/Persian and French.