As an Expressive Arts Therapist, Trish has enjoyed supervising Create students in a variety of practicum scenarios. She has extensive experience in the past 18 years in both agency work and private practice, supporting those with anxiety, low self-confidence, grief and loss, disabilities, traumatic experiences, caregiver burnout and relationship conflict. Her approach is person-centred, strengths-based, collaborative, neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed. Trish is also experienced in providing interactive, experiential group therapy and workshops.
Credentials: RP, EXAT, B.Arch.
Additional Training: • Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist Intensive Training (2023) • ADHD Clinical Services Provider (PESI, 2024) • Expressive Arts and Sensory Processing as Neurodiversity Affirming Practices with Cathy Malchiodi (2024) • Narrative Therapy Responding to Suicidal Thoughts Double Storying Hope and Despair (2022) • Transforming Trauma with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) (2023) • Internal Family Systems (IFS) Treating Complex Trauma with Frank Anderson (2022) • EXAT and Art Therapy Supervision and Ethics with Cathy Malchiodi (2022)
Professional Affiliations: • Registered Psychotherapist with the CRPO (College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario) • OEATA (Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association)
Areas of expertise & experience: Anxiety, neurodivergence, caregiver burnout, disabilities, grief and loss, relationship conflict, trauma
Population served: Students, professionals, artists, older adults, teens
Arts practice: Acrylic abstract painting, encaustic painting, mixed-media collage, tongue drum and guitar, voice work, mantra mindfulness meditation
Location and Contact Info: 211 Danforth Ave. and 515 Pape Ave., Toronto Online and in-person sessions available. • Email: [email protected] • Tel: (416) 882-6505
