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EMERGING
Unveiling the Magic in Everyday Life
EMERGING
EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
Online
For spiritual creatives that feel stuck in their projects and lives.
Together we create a loving, creative, soulful space for thoughtful people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or far away from themselves.
Rediscover your....
JOY
ALIVENESS
CREATIVITY
Inner-Peace
For creative, intuitive people who feel stuck in a project, a life transition, or their own expression—and want to find movement again.
No artistic experience needed. Just a willingness to explore
MAYBE YOU'RE HERE BECAUSE...
You don't have to think your way through.
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I’m constantly overwhelmed.
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I overthink everything.
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I don’t know what I want anymore.
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I’m afraid to begin unless I can do it perfectly.
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I’ve lost touch with joy.
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I want to trust myself again.
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Where did my creativity go?
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Why does everything feel so serious?
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What am I doing with my life?!?!
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Who am I and how do I express ALL of myself
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When will I feel like i've arrived?
You may already understand the pattern. Maybe you've also done years of talk therapy. But it didn't get you the results you wanted. Understanding insights and experiencing something new are not the same thing. You've been healing for years, now you want experience.
MOVEMENT MYSTERY CREATION
Whether you're stuck in a creative project or at a crossroads in your life, there is something inside you that wants to move, but doesn't know how.
OR MAYBE YOU FEEL LIKE...
We listen to the whole of you. Body, imagination, emotion, intuition, and voice.
We don't just talk.
Our work takes place in the HERE and NOW.
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
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL.
The world needs YOUR unique expression. The one that only YOU can bring.
So what happens in a 1:1 session together?
A space to listen.
A space to let go.
A space to emerge.
Imagine if an art class & a therapy session and a spiritual ritual had a baby.... that's what our sessions feel like.
The Journey.../ Ritual
Arrive
Intentions
Explore
Reflect
Integrate
We begin with mindfulness and grounding, so you can settle into the present
We talk about what is alive in your life right now - what feels challenging, tender, confusing, or ready to move.
We enter the creative unknown through movement, color, sound, writing, imagination, objects, improv, ritual, or something we discover together.
We notice what surprised you, what wanted expression, what you released, and what your process revealed.
We bring the discovery back into your life—with more space, choice, trust, and permission to be fully alive.
Our sessions together are not only sessions. Each meeting is a sacred journey that allows you to arrive, jHave an experience /journey into the unknown, come back a little more changed, and re-enter your life integrating new sensations, insights, and perspectives, felt sense in your body and knowing.
It's like a tiny Hero's Journey.
The EMERGING
Although we do have a container for the session, I can't tell you exactly what will happen. This is exactly the process we are exploring together, as co-creators. The guiding principle in my sessions, is that we both become present and curious about what is wanting to emerge, rather than what we think should emerge.
We can guide your journey, and I will also ask you to bring your intentions and desires, but The process has an intelligence of its own. And that is what we are here to research and discover together.
When both you and I can let go of expectations of what should happen, we can allow something more intelligent to come through. That is what we call the CREATIVE PROCESS. The creative process asks us to surrender beyond our egos, and trust in the invisible and unknown.
This is something humans don't like to do. We like knowing things. We like knowing where we are going. What we are doing. What hte speed limits are. Where we can park.....
The expressive arts process, asks us to both LET GO & SHAPE. This is the dance we are practicing in the sessions together.
Why is this important??
The creative process mimics our life proess. The more we practice letting go in our art, the more we can let go in our life.
The same patterns that keep us stuck in art are often the same patterns that keep us stuck in our lives.
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Become unstuck
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feel more alive
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trust yourself again
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feel adventure in uncertainty instead of dread
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express yourself freely
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listen to your inner knowing
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follow what wants to emerge
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return to your truest essence
What Becomes Possible?
We Allow. Don't Force
More room to breathe. More freedom to feel. More courage to express.
Let go of pressure, perfectionism, old roles, and feelings you have been carrying alone. Reconnect with your body, intuition, imagination, pleasure, and inner sense of direction. Meet difficult experiences with curiosity, compassion, ritual, beauty, and play. Feel more authentic, expressive, trusting, connected, joyful and alive in your own life.
From stuck, disconnected, and overthinking to alive, embodied, trusting, expressive, and deeply connected to yourself.
Create from connection—not pressure.
Move through perfectionism, fear of beginning, comparison, and creative paralysis.
Find clarity when you have too many ideas—or no idea what comes next.
Reconnect with your intuition, spiritual life, body, imagination, pleasure, and play.
Build trust in your own process so your projects—and your life—can begin moving again.
I'm Karen
I create a space where the sacred and the ordinary can meet—where you can loosen your grip, listen beneath the noise, and let your own creative process guide us toward what is asking to emerge.
Imagine...
What if we gave you the space to scream and cry and get messy and angry and silly and creative and quiet and space for absolutely whatever else needed to come through?? YOU HAD SPACE FOR YOU
What if you could let go of all the doubt and fear you've been carrying so that you could make space for your essence to reemerge from within?? YOU COULD FINALLY LET GO?
What if you remembered how to experience wonder and joy in uncertainty instead of pure dread? GAVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO FEEL WONDER & JOY AGAIN?
What if you could release expectations around making 'good art', and just made art...? THERE WERE NO EXPECTATIONS AND YOU COULD JUST BE
What would that you look like? How would that you feel? How would that you spend your time?
the Possibilities
Join me in the Unknown. Come just as you are.
Let's see what wants to EMERGE
You don't need to have it all figured out.
In everyday life, we often repeat what we already know. The same thoughts. The same roles. The same ways of protecting ourselves.The Creative process opens a small doorway beyond the familiar. Through an image, a movement, a sound, a story, or a moment of play, you may meet a feeling, truth, resource, or possibility you could not have planned. The creative process reminds us how to trust and let life flow through us.
YOU ARE CREATIVE!
You DO belong here.
We are not making 'good' or 'pretty' art. It is perfectly fine for you to make 'bad' or 'ugly' art here.
Also, we are all creative. Whether you think of yourself as an artist or not.
One thing I love about art is that it has space to hold everyone and everything. nothing and nobody is too much, not enough, too this or too that for art. Art welcomes it all.
ART MODALITIES
SPIRIT
YOUR INNER BEING WANTS MORE SPACE
In a world full of DOING, it's hard to slow down and BE.
But newness can't come through if there is no space for it.
Are you....
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Carrying too much
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Tired of trying to control everything?
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Feeling disconnected from your joy, body, or creativity?
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Holding yourself back?
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In a transition, and don’t know what comes next.
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Longing to feel free?
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Wanting to be fully yourself?
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Feeling stuck in life?
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Creatively blocked in a project?
It's time to Let Go.
Therapy
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Art
We use the creative process both to understand these patterns AND to Move the stuck energy in real time!
You feel stuck.
Patterns, Insight, Reflection
Experience, Presence, Movement, Creation
Whether you are feeling creatively blocked, don't know what to do with your life, or want to relieve stress,
Giving space to your voice, your body, your imagination, your breath, your hands, your emotions, to express themselves, creates movement! The arts help us do this.
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You don’t need to know where this will lead.
Follow what feels alive.
Begin with a free conversation. Bring what you are carrying, what you are longing for, or simply the feeling that something wants to change.
Book your free discovery call↗
75-minute private sessions · Online worldwide
It's ok to slow down
Why is this work so special???
The Creative Process.
The creative process reminds us how to trust and let go of control and expectations. It connects us to the creative source and helps us allow life to flow through us.
Creativity becomes a doorway back to yourself, not something to perform or do correctly
Disappear into the creative process again. Lose time. surprise yourself. feel life moving through you again. Make something you didn't know you had inside. Remember what it feels like to be fully alive.
You don't need another course. You don't need another breakthrough. You don't need to force yourself to be more disciplined. You need somewhere your whole self is invited. the part that knows. the part that's terrified. the part that's wildly creative. the part that has forgotten how to play.
You miss yourself. not the healed version. the optimized version.not the productive version. the version of you that is just present. who feels wonder. who trusts your instincts. who isn't performing creativity, just living it.
Talking can help you understand why you are stuck. Creative process lets you meet the stuckness directly: give it color, movement, shape, sound, language, and space
You have sensitivity, depth, and desire. But something isn’t moving.
I’m doing all the “right” things, but I don’t feel alive.I’m in-between identities and don’t know what comes next.I have a project I can’t begin—or finish.Perfectionism has taken the joy out of creating.I keep comparing myself and losing my own voice.I miss feeling inspired, expressive, and connected to myself.
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1-1 Sessions
I'm here to support you with anything and everything. Through Expressive Arts Therapy we navigate life's complexities and rediscover your inner strength and creativity.
In this 1hr 15 min online session we focus on your unique creative process. This means you don't need any artistic skills to benefit—just a willingness to explore!
Express Yourself
In our session we use painting, sound, improvisation, writing, theater, photography, film, ritual, movement, nature, and any other creative modality you can think of! Combining yoga practices, breathwork, somatic awareness, embodiment tools, mindfulness, and art as therapy unites the body, mind and soul into a holistic and creative way of life that feels truly ALIVE! Re-connect with yourself, your relationships, and the world around you, remembering your naturally radiant way of BEING!
What is Expressive Arts Therapy?
Benefits
Why Choose Expressive Arts Therapy?
Expressive Arts gives us many tools that help us access many different layers of ourselves as opposed to traditional talk therapy, where our main outlet is verbal. The use of different modalities allows for a richly holistic and textured approach to healing and discovery.
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Move from inaction to action
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Reduce stress & anxiety so you can feel calm & peaceful
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Create clarity out of confusion
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Transform fear into excitement
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Use anger to find acceptance
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Let go of control and embrace trust
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Release unhelpful patterns and allow change
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Turn separation into connection and intimacy
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Feel abundant instead of overwhelmed
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Embrace your chaos in order to find purpose & direction
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Discern between depletion and nourishment
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Release doubt and practice self-esteem
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Permit yourself to feel joy!
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Reduce comparisons and enjoy your unique self!
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Identify inner strengths and resources
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Find what gives your life meaning
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Release shame and develop understanding and compassion
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Live with integrity and alignment with YOUR values
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Vision development
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Uncover new possibilities from narrow perspectives
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Live with wonder!
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Feel the connection to something greater than the self
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Creative problem-solving in sticky situations
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Practice presence
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Release perfectionism and enjoy the process
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Give yourself permission to fail and have fun experimenting
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Let go of inhibitions and free your expression
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Develop intuition & courage to follow your gut instincts
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Embrace your inner artist and try new things
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Connect to your body and cultivate somatic awareness
... just to name a few
CLIENT REVIEWS
"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
KAREN QUELLER
Expressive Arts Therapy M.A
Dance Movement Therapy, Yoga RYT
With a B.A in psychology from UCSD, many years of various dance training, yoga certification, a strong spiritual practice, experiences both teaching and studying art, and working in the art department within the film industry - my life led me to Expressive Arts. It was the most natural next step. I feel privileged to have received my Master's degree from the pioneers of this field at the European Graduate School.
I am so excited to share EMERGING Expressive Arts work with all of you, as I know it's power to help us live with passion, ALIVENESS, meaning, connection, nourishment, freedom and openness for change and growth! Expressive Arts is a path of remembering our essence and our innate wisdom.
Mind .:. Body .:. Soul
ART IS MEDICINE
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Embrace Change
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Self Discovery
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Let Go
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Develop Trust
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Creative Problem Solving
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Transform Fear
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Find Inspiration
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Enhance Clarity
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Stress Management
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Life Transitions
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Vision Development
SURRENDER
Expressive Arts Therapy is a playground for stepping into the unknown so you can practice LETTING GO more easily in life. Through the arts we transform uncertainty into adventure, stress into trust, and challenges into your gifts. This work is nourished through experimentation and by saying YES to getting out of your comfort zone (or at least an "ok, I'm willing to try it once"). It is deep, beautiful, soul-stirring work that can surprise us, challenge us, and bring joy to the process of change (which is such a relief because change can be scary!)
For Who?
This work can be used with anyone, in any situation. If you are reading this right now, there is probably a reason why. Either your curiosity, desire, or a difficulty brought you here and you want to do something about that. Engaging in the arts helps us take action towards the things we truly care about. If you are unsure about this process feel free to CONTACT ME! Say hello, let me know what you are questioning and we can feel it out together.
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?