Founded by Marie-José Dhaese, the Centre for Expressive Therapy  provides training for those in the helping professions and counselling for those seeking healing and personal growth.

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The Benefits Of Expressive Therapy

Expressive Therapy has proven to be particularly helpful to children and adults experiencing the consequences of a variety of stresses and difficult experiences including:

• Abuse (emotional, physical, sexual)
• Accidents, illness and hospitalization
• Attachment issues, foster care, adoption
• Autism spectrum
• Chronic pain
• Grief, loss, bereavement
• Life transitions (moves, employment change, menopause, retirement etc…)
• Physical or mental challenges
• Separation and divorce
• Spiritual crisis
• Stress in the workplace
• Traumas of all types
• Withdrawn, overactive, controlling or aggressive behaviour

Expressive Therapy can address a variety of symptoms such as:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Fears
• Sleeping problems

It was developed by Marie-José Dhaese to help individuals of all ages to cope with their challenges and to also learn and grow from them. In a warm, nurturing atmosphere that speaks to all the senses, Marie-José creatively integrates:

• verbal counselling
• imagery and visualization
• art therapy
• play therapy
• sand play therapy
• story telling
• writing
• music
• movement
• photography
• sewing
• fibre arts
• EMDR
• family of origin work

Marie-José's co-therapist animal companion Fleur assists both in the teaching and the therapy whenever appropriate.

Marie-José's initial emphasis is on helping clients connect to their own inner strengths and resources, before engaging in a deeper exploration of the issues that bring them to therapy. The therapeutic methods used during the course of therapy are carefully chosen according to age, natural inclination and life circumstances to meet the unique needs of each client .The result is an increase in confidence, strength, creativity and energy to meet life's challenges.