Art Therapy on Hudson is a creative space located in the village of Hastings-on-Hudson,
twenty miles north of New York City overlooking the Hudson River. My name is Mia de Bethune.
I am an artist, writer, and licensed creative arts therapist with twenty years of experience in the field
who provides experiential psychotherapy through art, art journaling, and
somatic knowing to individuals and groups in my studio.
I am registered with the American Art Therapy Association, certified by the American Art Therapy Credentials Board and licensed by the NY State Dept. of Education. I teach art therapy on the faculty of the NYU program, where I received my training, and act as a program advisor to the postgraduate Child and Adolescent Program at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. I'm a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, also trained in Inner Relational Focusing, Integral Somatic Psychology, and Karuna® Holy Fire® Reiki healing. Although a special focus has been work with adolescents and children in foster care using trauma based therapy, my experience is with varied populations including hospice and bereavement, psychiatric hospitals, adult groups, schools, and museums. I am currently a PhD student in expressive art therapy at Lesley University where my research involves embodiment and art therapy.
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Often the most difficult feelings are too hard to express with words. In the art process feelings can be seen visually and felt tangibly through the creation of artwork. Once revealed in this way emotional problems which were previously unspoken may be discussed and worked through. My therapeutic background is grounded in object relations combining elements of attachment theory, ego and self psychology, trauma work and an eclectic mix of humanism, Jungian symbolism, narrative therapy, mindfulness, meditative breathing and body work. I have training in embodied methods like Guided Drawing, Focusing and other somatic art making methods. You do not need to be artistically gifted to engage in art therapy. A nonjudgemental, accepting approach allows exploration of your natural creativity and helps foster better understanding of yourself and your world. As a writer and artist, I encourage the exploration of both image making and story telling for an
integrative path to healing.
Ultimately the psyche wants to move toward healing and integration. I respect the power of the unspoken,
the unconscious, the forming image to lead one toward clarity.
twenty miles north of New York City overlooking the Hudson River. My name is Mia de Bethune.
I am an artist, writer, and licensed creative arts therapist with twenty years of experience in the field
who provides experiential psychotherapy through art, art journaling, and
somatic knowing to individuals and groups in my studio.
I am registered with the American Art Therapy Association, certified by the American Art Therapy Credentials Board and licensed by the NY State Dept. of Education. I teach art therapy on the faculty of the NYU program, where I received my training, and act as a program advisor to the postgraduate Child and Adolescent Program at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. I'm a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, also trained in Inner Relational Focusing, Integral Somatic Psychology, and Karuna® Holy Fire® Reiki healing. Although a special focus has been work with adolescents and children in foster care using trauma based therapy, my experience is with varied populations including hospice and bereavement, psychiatric hospitals, adult groups, schools, and museums. I am currently a PhD student in expressive art therapy at Lesley University where my research involves embodiment and art therapy.
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Often the most difficult feelings are too hard to express with words. In the art process feelings can be seen visually and felt tangibly through the creation of artwork. Once revealed in this way emotional problems which were previously unspoken may be discussed and worked through. My therapeutic background is grounded in object relations combining elements of attachment theory, ego and self psychology, trauma work and an eclectic mix of humanism, Jungian symbolism, narrative therapy, mindfulness, meditative breathing and body work. I have training in embodied methods like Guided Drawing, Focusing and other somatic art making methods. You do not need to be artistically gifted to engage in art therapy. A nonjudgemental, accepting approach allows exploration of your natural creativity and helps foster better understanding of yourself and your world. As a writer and artist, I encourage the exploration of both image making and story telling for an
integrative path to healing.
Ultimately the psyche wants to move toward healing and integration. I respect the power of the unspoken,
the unconscious, the forming image to lead one toward clarity.
"The gift of an image is that it is a place to watch your soul." James Hillman