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Lesley Swartz

Expressive Arts Therapist

Credentials: 
  • R.P./Registered Psychotherapist
  • Recognized Clinical Supervisor
  • Core Teaching Faculty, The Create Institute
  • Clinic Coordinator/Clinical Supervisor, The Create Clinic
  • Associate Director, The Create Institute 2019-2022
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy (The Create Institute)
  • Masters Degree in Adult Education and Community Development (OISE, University of Toronto)
  • Five years training in Gestalt Therapy (Toronto Institute of Gestalt Therapy)
  • Two years training in Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy at The Center for Somatic Studies in New York
  • Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies (Dalhousie University)
  • Practice as an Expressive arts therapist for fifteen years (agency and private practice)

Additional Training:  
  • Child and Play Therapy
  • Narrative Therapy education
  • Anti-Oppression education
  • Trauma for Front-Line Workers certificate
  • T.E.S.L Certificate (Teaching English as a Second Language)
  • Clinical Supervision Training
 
Professional Affiliations:
  • CRPO (College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario)
  • OEATA (Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association)
  • IEATA (International Expressive Arts Therapy Association)
  • OAMHP  (Ontario Association of Mental Health Practitioners)
  • CAPT (Canadian Association of Psychodynamic Therapy)
 
Population served: Individuals, couples, families - adults and youth
 
Areas of expertise & experience: Experience working with challenges of stress, self esteem. creative blocks, life transitions, personal identity, depression, anxiety, parenting and family issues, relationship conflicts, loss and grief, trauma
 
Languages: English, intermediate oral French

Arts practice: Comfort with visual arts (clay, collage, painting), movement, intermodal practice

Qualified for supervision: Yes
 
Location: Downtown Toronto (West)
 
Contact:     
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Tel: 416-536-3773 (Leave confidential message and I will contact you within 24 hours)
  • Hours: Flexible during weekdays