OUR PRACTICE • OUR APPROACH • OUR PEOPLE
A practice built around the idea that expression can come before explanation.
Therapeutic Arts is a psychotherapy practice where art therapy is central rather than supplemental. Our clinicians are trained to work with image, material, and conversation together—so that children, teens, and adults have more than one way to explore what is happening in their lives.
Why our practice exists
Therapeutic Arts exists to make clinically grounded, holistic therapy more accessible. Many people—especially young people—arrive at therapy struggling to find words for what they are going through. Stress can be experienced throughout the body, and creative expression can offer a broader vehicle than spoken language alone for exploring feelings and experiences. This practice was built so clients can access more than one meaningful way to begin.
What clinically grounded art therapy means here
Art therapy is a mental health profession, and our clinicians practice it as psychotherapy. Assessment, treatment planning, clinical judgment, and the therapeutic relationship shape the work; art-making is one of the ways that work happens. Materials are chosen with intention, not offered as an activity to fill the hour.
That framing has practical consequences. Sessions may look different from one client to the next. A therapist may move between conversation and making, adjust the approach as goals shift, or set art aside entirely when that serves the person in front of them.
What we value
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Process over product
What happens in the making matters more than what the making looks like.
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Autonomy & self-esteem at all ages
Children, teens, and adults are encouraged to participate in setting goals for their own care in developmentally appropriate ways.
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Curiosity before conclusion
We ask what an experience means to the person living it.
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Collaboration
Goals are set with clients and, where appropriate, with families.
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Clinical seriousness
Creative work is held to the same professional standards as any other form of psychotherapy.
Our Clinical Director
Patricia Grego
MS, LMHC, LPAT, LCAT, ATR-BC
Patricia Grego leads Therapeutic Arts with a career built on helping others—in schools, psychiatric hospitals, foster care agencies, and treatment facilities. She’s a licensed mental health counselor, licensed creative arts therapist, and board-certified art therapist, and she brings all of that experience into a practice that feels less like a clinical office and more like an art studio.
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How we work
Our clinicians are master’s-level mental health professionals with specialized graduate education in art therapy. The team includes fully licensed clinicians and permit-holding therapists working under ongoing supervision. Credentials across the practice may include LMHC, LPC, LCAT, LPAT, LP-CAT, LAAT, and board certification as a registered art therapist (ATR-BC).
If you are looking for a practice that takes creative expression seriously, we would like to hear what brings you here.
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