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EMERGING
Unveiling the Magic in Everyday Life
1:1 Expressive Arts Therapy online
Come Home to Yourself
through your body, creativity, and senses
75 minute - 1:1 Sessions - Online
No artistic experience needed
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Hi, I'm Karen Queller
M.A Expressive Arts Therapy | REAT
EMERGING
Let me ease your first fear
YOU ARE CREATIVE!
You DO belong here.
ALL of you is welcome, just as you are.
(yes, the weird and uncomfortable parts too)
We do not need to make 'good' or 'pretty' art (although we can!).
It is perfectly fine to make 'bad' or 'ugly' art here.
Creativity is not just something you do.
It is a way of being in the world.
There is more of YOU that wants to come Alive!
You feel a lot. You think a lot. You want a lot.
But somehow you feel stuck...
Stuck in your head
Thinking, analyzing, doubting, and trying to figure it all out. Perfectionism keeps you from starting.
Disconnected
Numb, dry, passionless, and purposeless. You don't feel present with life.
Overwhelmed
there are so many to-dos and you always feel like you're not doing enough or are falling behind and need to control everything.
In Transition
Something is ending, and the next steps are unfolding. You want time & space to explore.
Or maybe you are ready to feel something more...
Holding Back
You've been shutting down, freezing, going small or quiet, but there is so much inside you.
Craving Creativity
There's always an excuse, and always tomorrow. Somehow your creativity keep getting pushed aside.
You cooould keep pushing... Forcing your way forward is an option, but it's not fun, It's exhausting. It's boring. It's also not nourishing, or sustainable and it sucks the aliveness out of life and leaves the soul feeling dry.
Whatever brought you here...
Something is pulling you toward a more meaningful, embodied, creative and aligned life.
Put down the shoulds & learn to hear yourself again.
What if there is another way?
Let go
A more fun way
A more spacious way
A more nourishing way
A more soulful way to live
Through mindfulness and creative exploration, we meet your challenges, draw on your strengths, play with your questions, and make space for new possibilities to emerge.
Free 20 min Discovery Call
Want more info? Get in touch
20 min
Come home to yourself through creativity, connection & expression
1 hr 15 min
135 US dollars
A different approach to wellness
What is Expressive Arts Therapy?
This is a guided process that brings together creative expression, body awareness, and reflection to explore your feelings, understand your patterns, and discover new possibilities in real time.We bring the invisible into visible and tangible forms we can play and work with to bring the change into your life that you desire.
Expression + Arts + Therapy
Let it out
Feel. Release. Surrender
Explore. Play. Create
Give it shape
Create meaning
Reflect. Understand. Integrate.
Express Yourself!!
You've probably learned a lot of ways to move through life: think harder, try more, get it right, be productive, be responsible, push through, follow the plan.
But beneath all the shoulds, expectations, habits and outside noise, there is your own inner wisdom and your own rhythm.
You have your own bodily impulses
Your own timing
You have your own desires
Your own ways of knowing
You have your own special gifts
Your very special ways of being YOU
Through our creative and embodied practices, we strengthen capacities that help you listen more closely, experiment more freely, meet uncertainty with greater flexibility, and have more ways to respond when life doesn't go according ot plan. We're not here to 'fix' you. We are uncovering the layers so you can simply be MORE YOU!
Within our challenges are resources and gifts we have to share with the world. Our work is to discover and amplify these.
Art helps us express the truth of who we are, without asking us to become someone else.
We are not only linear, logical, mental beings. We are also...
Take imperfect action!
Move your body.
Make the mark.
Tear the paper.
Collect objects.
Follow what wants to happen next.
No need to make something beautiful.
Just come into contact with what's here.
No need to know where it's going.
Notice the image.
Touch the clay.
Creative expression gives all our parts a language.
Art gives us space to express ourselves as we truly are.
Here we practice how to...
Karen brings soul into the room
- Markus, Canada
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Creative Modalities & Materials
How we work
Together, we create small experiences that give you opportunities to listen, respond, discover, and learn to trust the way as it EMERGES.
Mindfulness guides us into a deeper presence and receptive state.
When we are present, anything can become our creative muse.
PAINTING MOVEMENT THEATER SOUND WRITING MEDIA RITUAL NATURE
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Each art form brings us into contact with different parts of ourselves.
SOUND
PAINTING
You don't need to color inside the lines.
Explore color, texture, and gesture to give shape to what you feel. Let one mark lead to the next.
If this moment were a color, what would it be?
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A hum, a sigh, a simple rhythm, the sound of the pencils in your pencil jar... Let the vibrations carry you.
If your day had a rhythm, what would it sound like?
You don't have to be a musician!
Anything & everything from your everyday life can become inspiration for your creativity!
Meet the material with all of your senses!
MATERIALS
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MOVEMENT
There are no correct steps to follow!
Your body can take up space here! Practice following your sensations and impulses.
If your body made a gesture each time it exhaled, what would that look like?
You are not alone. Let the nature into your heart.
A stone, a branch, clouds... nature offers materials, and a relationship to the world around us.
Find one natural item that makes you go WOW! or OOoOo!
NATURE
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WRITING
You don't need the perfect words!
Fragments, stories, poems, unexpected phrases can help you discover something you haven't known how to verbalize before.
If you look around your room, what is the first word that you see?
MEDIA
You don't need a plan before you can start!
Your everyday world is full of inspiration! Photography, video, and collage let you explore what catches your eye, and tell stories from unique angles.
Scroll through your phone gallery with eyes closed. What photo does your finger land on, and what message does that photo want to tell you right now?
THEATER
Use props, costumes, role-play, improvisation to explore different parts and different angles. Discover a way of being you haven't tried before.
If your inner critic became a character, how would it stand, speak, and move?
Try on a different perspective!
RITUAL
When we focus our attention, magic happens!
We create markings to honor transitions, endings, beginnings, desires, and to call upon supportive energies (could be the sun, moon, earth, teachers, ancestors).
Choose an object to represent something you want to welcome into your life. Give it a special place to be.
Re-discover your JOY!
Play
Ready to get started?
Creativity
Trust
Peace
Aliveness
wonder
Clarity
Pleasure
You have been trying to solve everything from inside the problem.
Step away from the challenge.
Enter the creative process.
Return with new possibilities.
Imagine. Imagination. Imaginatively.
Imagine the Possibilities...
A new way of being in the world
Art is Life
Life is Art
Expressive Arts is a laboratory for life.
Sessions are not just therapy. They are practice for the life you are wanting to live.
What kinds of challenges can we work with together?
Instead of ......
WORK & CREATIVE PROJECTS
"I keep rewriting the proposal I haven't sent yet."
Imagine....
Let something be ready enough.
Following your curiosity, playing with materials, and discovering something you couldn't have planned.
RELATIONSHIPS
"I say yes, then feel resentful. I don't know how to say no."
Find your yes. Practice your no.
Exploring what yes and no feel like in your body, and trying out a boundary in your own words.
DECISIONS & DIRECTIONS
"I keep asking everyone else. I don't know what I want anymore."
Feel your own response.
Giving each possibility a shape, a place or a voice and noticing which one draws you closer.
CHANGE & LOSS
" I know things have changed, but I haven't really caught up."
Make room for what's next
Creating something that holds what you miss, what you're leaving, and what you might be ready to welcome.
FEELINGS & SELF-EXPRESSION
"I don't know how to say what I feel."
Express your truth
Letting an image, gesture, sound, or metaphor speak first without needing to explain it perfectly.
PLEASURE & EVERYDAY LIFE
"I get everything done, but I don't feel like myself."
Follow what nourishes you
Making room to move, play, and notice what feels good and finding small ways to bring that into your day.
Art has the beautiful ability to hold us and all of our parts.
Creative Process = Life Process The creative realm mirrors your life. What reveals itself while you create, can reveal information about how you move through life. As you make, you may notice how you respond to uncertainty, mistakes, choices, control, and the unexpected. This laboratory becomes a small, low-stakes laboratory for life where you can experiment with not knowing, making a 'wrong mark', following impulses, or allowing something to change. The challenges we overcome, and strengths we discover while making art, give us valuable and embodied understanding about what might be possible in your daily life.
My experience with Karen was exceptional. She is one of the most present therapist I have worked with. Our appointment was online and it was amazing to be able to do such deep work through zoom. Lea, Canada
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Release - Explore - Discover - Transform
What Happens Inside a Session?
A space to let go.
A space to listen.
A space to not need to know
A space to allow.
A space to take up space.
A space to embody what you are becoming
Most importantly, we listen to what is wanting ot EMERGE in the session, and that might look different for each person depending on the day or even the moment.This is a space for YOU to do YOU!! My desire is that you feel free to take up space here and follow what feels nourishing moment by moment.
Every invitation is always just that, an invitation. You can say YES! NO! I'm not sure, what if we try doing something else. If all you want to do in the session is lay on the floor, because that's what actually feels good to you, DO IT! We create space for you to try things, to make mistakes, to be imperfect, and then to just... try again.
Tuning In
Creative
Exploration
Reflection
The Arrival
Integration
Want to know more?
I would highly recommend her to anyone with a creative spirit looking to heal and find new, enjoyable ways of being in the world. Tara, USA
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Next Step
Let's start with a conversation
Free 20-minute discovery call
We'll talk about what brings you here, what you're hoping to explore, and how expressive arts could support you. Ask Questions. Meet me. See if working together feels right. No pressure.
No preperation or commitment needed.
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Feeling the YES?!?!
Book your 1st session now!
1:1 Expressive Arts Session
75 minutes | Online
$135 USD per session
No artistic experience needed.
Ready to go?!
There is no need to book a consultation call. You can book your first session directly.
We don't just talk.
We listen to the WHOLE of you.
Creative Capacities
How Expressive Arts Will Change Your Life
What we practice through mindfulness and art, becomes habits and resources we can translate outside the therapeutic container and in our everyday life. As we explore presence, curiosity, play, and letting go, we discover new ways to meet ourselves, our relationships, and whatever comes net, with more resources, more possibility, and a touch of magic.
Presence
I can slow down. I can notice what's here. I can feel more.
So that I feel more connected to my body, my pleasure, my relationships, and the life that is happening now.
Curiosity
I can wonder. I can ask. I can discover.
So that life feels more open, interesting, and full of possibility.
Play
I can experiment. I can be imperfect. I can enjoy the process
So that creating and living feel lighter, freer, and less pressured.
Letting Go
I can soften. I can release my attachment to the outcome. I can stop gripping so tightly.
So that I feel more spacious, flexible, and able to meet what comes next.
Trust
I can listen. I can let the process unfold without knowing all the details. I can be supported.
So that I feel less need to control every outcome and more ease moving through uncertainty.
Self-Expression
I can show myself. I can use my voice. I can let more of me be seen.
So that I feel more spacious, flexible, and able to meet what comes next.
Intuition
I can sense. I can hear my own knowing. I can trust myself
So that I feel clearer about what is mine, what I want, and what feels right for me.
Confidence
I can grow. I can act. I can take up space.
So that I feel more capable, expressive, and actively moving towards what matters to me
Over time you are able to meet life more fully and authentically so that you can feel more aliveness, pleasure, and more YOU.
You develop more resilience when things change. More freedom to rest when rest is needed. More courage to act when something wants action. More willingness to take a risk, change direction, make a mistake, try again, or follow something you didn't plan.
Not because you suddenly have all the answers.
Because you have developed more ways of listening, responding, creating, and moving forward.
WE DON'T NEED TO PUSH.
WE DON'T NEED TO FORCE.
WE SIMPLY, ALLOW.
Practice another way of being in the world.
Notice. Relax. Smile. Create.
She's not just a therapist, she's my soul doctor." Markesha, Japan
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Hi, I'm Karen (or Keki)
I am a traveler of the heart, mind, and soul. I love going deep into different worlds. Weather that is through visiting countries, expanding my artistic repetoire, through intimate connections with beautiful souls, or inside my own psyche and inner landscape. I'm an adventurer. An explorer. I try to see the fun, beauty and wonder in this life. I believe there is more here that we can not see, and I try to see the beauty and wonder within each experience.
I like putting my feet in dirt
I am in a conversation with time
I love hugs and cuddles
I feel deeply
I get dreamy when a warm breeze touches my face
I've been all over the world, met some of the most beautiful people, have had all kinds of crazy experiences (maybe I'll tell you a story sometime over tea...), have learned about life from villagers in Nepal, yogis in the Himalayas, children in Fiji, and Magicians and storytellers from every corner of the planet. I've searched high and low to meet the best of the best (SERIOUSLY!). I've lived nomadically for years, explored many alternative communities, and learned about life through the eyes of locals. I've learned that there are so many ways to see and do life, there is no 'right' or 'wrong' way. I've also learned that at the end of the day we all just want to love and feel loved. We want to feel connected. And we want tools and channels to express ourselves, and to play, and to create, and to be in an active and nourishing relationship with life itself. I've had all of these experiences so that I can embody these teachings and carry this wisdom forward to YOU, and so that you may take these teachings and carry them forward through you, in your own special way. Life is short and precious and I want to celebrate it masterfully. I want to help you do the same.
I have a B.A in Psychology from UC San Diego, and an M.A in Expressive Arts Therapy from the European Graduate School in Switzerland. I have trained in Dance Movement Therapy in India, and hold a YTTC of Yoga.
In addition to these I have been a lifelong dancer, and grew up in a house full of art. I love to paint, cook, make sounds, be in nature, make things more beautiful, create jewlery, spend time with loved ones, come up with brilliant ideas (if you need one let me know... I'm an idea machine) and I enjoy the simple things like feeling the rain on my skin or the smell of oranges.
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I truly believe you have all the inner wisdom you need within you. I believe life is supposed to be fun and I want us to celebrate it deeply. I can play hard, and I can go with you into the depths of your emotions or challenges that need to be felt, explored, released, and transformed. I also have a strong connection to spirit. Many people who are seeking a stronger connection to their own spirituality find their way to me. I'm also pretty weird, so you don't have to worry about being too weird in front of me. I gotchya. Who I may not be best for. . . people who want a quick fix. Or a 'do A,B,C' way of working. I deeply believe in the Emergence, meaning that as we surrender, the creative process itself helps us to find flow and reveals itself to us.. If you are willing to go into the unknown this could be a great fit for you. and I want you to know, I FULLY TRUST in your inner wisdom and light! I am not here to tell you how to change, and fix yourself, and be different. NO!! I am here, doing what I do because I SEE you. If you are on this page reading these words it means you are special, and there is so much inside you that really really wants to come out (even if you haven't admitted that out loud yet, secretly you know it's true) My job here is to help you be MORE YOU. I also believe my work is to help you feel connected to something greater... weather that is spirit, nature, your community, your ancestors, or the world of creativity and artists (this is deeply personal and different for each person). We can't do this life alone. The more supported we feel, the more resilience, courage, and love we will keep cultivating in our hearts. You are not alone my friends, even though sometimes it can feel like it.
Why Work With Me?
I've had so much fun experimenting and using new and different arts such as movement, painting, sculpting, dancing, puppeteering, and singing, to dive deep into my subconscious and become more confident and in-love with life. Chris, USA
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Less Thinking.
More Living.
Why Expressive Arts Therapy?
Mental analysis can only take you so far. What your body, soul, and mind are really craving is movement, experimentation, connection to your body, and your desire. You need contact with materials, and the parts of you that don't communicate in a neat sentence.
Expressive Arts brings the invisible and transforms it into something visible, auditory, kinesthetic... Something tangible. Something we can see, hear, touch and play with.
This isn't simply an art class. And it isn't simply therapy. Through being in a therapeutic container while making art, amazing things can happen.
More analysis doesn't create more clarity.
Experiences Create Clarity
Humans need movement, experimentation, contact with our bodies, contact with desire, contact with materials, contact with the parts of us that don't communicate in a neat sentence.
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Expressive Arts is simply the most soulful, nourishing, delightful, beautiful, deep, expansive, all-encompassing work that i've found. Whatever your challenge or desire is, bring it. The arts can hold us. It blows my mind how generous and full of range this work is. seriously. Many other methods tell you how to do something. This one really just helps you find your very own way through this life. You get to make up your own rules here. Expressive Arts feels like coming home. Remember what if feels like to trust yourself? Remember what it feels like to feel joy because a hummingbird came to your window? Remember what it feels like to even notice that the hummingbird came to your window and to actually pause and admire it?? Or let it make you wonder.... about beauty, and creatures, and nature, and how can those wings even move so fast?!?! When we let ourselves be touched by life, we know we're alive.... otherwise, we're kind of just on autopilot. Numb. Going through the motions without feeling the zest of life with us. The joy. The mystery. The beautiful surprises. We create a space for YOUR authentic expression, not Johnny's or Annie's or Sarah's or Melanie's. Just yours. This is more than typical talk therapy We work within the sacred realm. Both of us are asked to surrender inside the container, in a portal between time and space. We enter the Timeless.
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What to expect?
Notice more
Become more aware of what your body, emotions, imagination, environment and experience are telling you.
Hear yourself clearly
Recognize your own desires, impulses, needs and inner knowing beneath all the noise, expectations, and the "shoulds"
Creative Possibilities
Learn to move beyond the options you already know. Use imagination, curiosity and creative thinking to discover perspectives, connections and solutions you couldn't see before.
Come back into contact with life!
Raw, messy, wild, ugly, beautiful, mysterious, sensual, weird, honest contact.
Follow what nourishes
The world needs more artists!
Artists are magicians. We see, feel, and experiences the world differently. We know how to transform material into gold. We know how to be unapologetically different. We know how to find beauty in times that feel grey and lifeless. We are Artists. The world needs our valuable expression.
Testimonials
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"I had a very beautiful and unique experience with Karen. We worked on a difficult topic and I had new and interesting insights about myself and what really bothers me in the situation I was in. The way of approaching the fears and insecurities with expressive art therapy was a very powerful and positive experience. With Karen's help it felt playful and easy. She made me feel very comfortable with whatever I was doing. I felt like a kid again. The feeling when you‘re just enjoying your ideas while playing not thinking about how others would think about you. I would definitely recommend this experience."
Eliza, Italy
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Karen is AMAZING and I love her dearly" - Me, Self Love
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Is This For Me
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What if i'm not creative?
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I don't have time to make art
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It seems fun... but is it useful?
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Can I make ugly art?
(YES! please do!!!)
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How? Where? I'm not an artist. I don't have time. I don't even know what I want to do or say. My body feels shut down. I'm scared. What will people think? Am I going to feel awkward? I have too many responsibilities. I should do other stuff. Maybe tomorrow.... There is always something keeping your passion, your pleasure, your sensitivity, your life on the backburner. There's other stuff to do. Maybe if you keep pushing, you will finally get where you want to be and then there will be time to do the fun stuff, the stuff that lights your soul on fire!?? I don't believe that works. I believe life is asking us to live fully, NOW. Here. Imperfectly. raw. messy. as we are. Not when we finally become perfect or are on vacation. Not when we've finally burnt ourselves out that our bodies are screaming and begging for us to slow down and connect more deeply to ourselves. life. nourishment.
This newfound expressive freedom has addressed the anxieties and insecurities that once overshadowed my artistic pursuits, allowing me to embrace my unique perspective and voice without fear of judgment.
-Victoria, USA
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Online
I work with clients from all over the world!
Meet me from the comfort of your own home!
Many people ask me - HOW DOES THIS WORK ONLINE? Beautifully! Although getting together in person is a lot of fun, doing expressive arts together online is just as effective. The constraints of working online can often force us to get even more creative and develop greater flexibility in order to adapt to what is available in our surroundings. The other great thing about doing this online is that you are working in YOUR environment which allows this work to integrate more effectively into your daily life. In our sessions, we transform your familiar space into a sacred space. You will be surprised at how much beauty and magic is present in corners you usually walk by everyday ;).
Where Do We Work?
Why Now?
Because we need YOU. NOW. Seriously. Not Betty and Bob or Laura and Joe.... The world needs YOU!!
You are the only YOU there will EVER be!!! EVER. There never was another you before and there never will be another you again. .... Let that sink in for a second....
The work starts as soon as you say YES!
Life is short. Let's live fully and celebrate!
It's Time to Wake Up Your Senses!
We are Alive
Let's un-numb & feel again.
Become present.
Slow down and receive the pleasure and beauty of this life.
Expressive Arts
EMERGING
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