​​A life affirming way to tap into your essence and move imaginatively towards an embodied sense of self, connection and purpose
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dRAW heART
Noriko Oka, MA, RCC
​Expressive Arts Therapist
Registered Clinical Counsellor​
Designation of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors​
N o  b a c k g r o u n d  i n  a r t  n e e d e d. . . j u s t  a  s e n s e  o f  c u r i o s i t y
Potential therapeutic benefits:
  • Connect to the here and now​​
  • Engage your senses & emotions​​
  • ​​Follow your creative flow
  • Invite curiousity
  • Think outside of the box
  • Discover through doing
  • Explore through play
  • ​Shape your world through the arts ​​​ ​​
  • Make meaningful contact with others​​
  • Make sense through images
Over fourteen years of experience
​serving diverse communities 
​across the whole spectrum of life 
​"Never fails to amaze me how creativity bubbles up when we are given the space to express our uniquely authentic and quirky selves.  We are born to play and shape our worlds from our imagination.  The transformative power of the arts can call us home while at the same time open up new horizons and surprise us in unexpected ways."
dRAW heART
HEALING ARTS SPACE 2019​
XL YOGA
​Jill Moran
Tues 6:30-7:30 pm​
IMPROV
​Byron Kjeldsen
bi-weekly Tues 8-10 pm​
the COLLECTIVE
​Anne Schaefer
Wed 7-9 pm​
MINDFULNESS BCALM
Wed 9-10:30 am & 6:30-8 pm
​Thurs 11-12:30 pm & 1-2:30 pm
Expressive arts therapy engages the right brain, rooted in a somatic, sensory and play-based approach suitable for all ages.  Shape through the arts and make sense of your world through this creative and experiential process.  Discover fresh narratives in exploring the emerging image while fully landed in your body in the here and now. 
​No experience necessary...just a sense of curiosity.
Focus on:
  • Grief and loss
  • Trauma
  • Anxiety, Depression
  • Relationships
  • Neurodiversity
  • LGBTQ+
  • Immigration
  • Life Transition
IDEAL for those who are seeking to:
  • Find a creative alternative 
  • Engage the body
  • Integrate the whole self
  • Be inspired and moved by the image
  • Shape their stories anew
  • Reconnect to their lost childhood​