About Bethanie

LPCMH, ATR

She/her/hers

I am a registered art therapist, licensed professional counselor, intuitive artist, and energy healer. I also got sick from years of swallowing what I actually felt, and an art journal is what got me out of it. That's the lens everything else here comes from.

For as long as I can remember, I've been drawn to the intersection of art, emotion, and the unseen. I've explored creativity in my own life as something that moves through me, something that helps me process, reflect, and evolve. Through my work I’ve seen these truths over and over again:

🎨 Art is a portal. A space where emotions can be seen, where healing can unfold, where self trust can be rebuilt.

🎨 Creativity is a conversation with the self. Not about being "good" at art, but about allowing ourselves to listen, to play, to release.

🎨 Recovery, whatever that means to you, is a creative act. It’s a process of becoming, of unlearning and rediscovering, of making meaning where there was once only chaos.

I'm also sober and neurodivergent, and I know what it's like to move through a world that wasn't built for either of those things. That's part of why art works when talking doesn't. I don't have to explain myself first. I can start making something instead.

The methods I use with clients are mostly the ones that worked on me first. I don't hand people tools I haven't actually tested in my own life.

Since 2016, I've been offering creative practices to people navigating the weight of being human.

Trusting yourself enough to make something, imperfect, unplanned, honest, matters more here than making something good.

I didn't build this because I had it figured out. I built it because the alternative was staying sick. If that sounds familiar, you're in the right place.