🎉✨ Thank you to the Beverly Chamber of Commerce, for joining us today for our ribbon-cutting ceremony 🎉✨ Your support and enthusiasm have made our event an unforgettable moment in the history of our center. Together, we embark on a journey of healing and creativity, weaving vibrant threads of art and therapy into the tapestry of our community. Here's to nurturing minds, hearts, and souls in our beautiful new space!

We reached out to our staff to talk about their experiences in the mental health field through the lens of being a women. Here are some of the responses we found most interesting and insightful

Dr. Krystal Demaine is a highly accomplished professional in the field of Expressive Therapies, with extensive experience and expertise in utilizing the arts for healing and personal transformation. As a Board-Certified Music Therapist, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, and Registered Yoga Teacher, Dr. Demaine has dedicated her career to helping individuals tap into their creative potential for healing and growth.

Sara Roizen is an artist and art therapist, based in Beverly, Massachusetts. I am also a Mindfulness and Meditation

Teacher and an Advanced Trauma Practitioner. I love integrating mindfulness skills and trauma informed

practices into my art therapy work with clients.

“We're thrilled to announce our collaboration with The Artful Life Counseling Center and Studio, a local mental health group dedicated to fostering creativity. The Artful Life offers workshops and personalized counseling, enhancing our community's well-being. Every Tuesday, they join us at YouthBuild, granting our young participants access to invaluable mental health services. These sessions also equip our youth with essential life skills, empowering them to effectively manage their emotions. This month, counselors Al and Veneeta focused on honing communication skills. Through engaging group activities, they've been helping our young people forge stronger connections, both with themselves and others.

Fundamentals of Art Therapy: A 3 part series

Fundamentals of Art Therapy: 3 part series, happening on Mar 15th, Apr 12th & May 17th at Salem Studio

Thriving Group Practice in Salem, Massachusetts Uses Expressive Art Therapy to Provide Trauma-Informed Mental Health Care and Services for Children and Adults

As an expressive arts therapist, one of my greatest pleasures is helping people access their inner artist. Our inner artist is flexible, creative, unafraid to try new things, open to fresh insights, and takes pleasures in small joys. Our inner artist is able to get messy, make “mistakes,” and find new ways of thinking and doing. Sounds great, right?

Expressive Arts Therapy can be traced back to the mid twentieth century and has beautifully blossomed into the twenty first century. That said, the field of is rather new and is still evolving and expanding. Expressive Arts Therapy is viewed as a hybrid discipline, meaning that it is rooted heavily in the fields of psychology, and of course – art. 

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Laura is a licensed mental health counselor in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, a national certified counselor, a board certified art therapist, as well as a certified school counselor and art teacher. Laura has nine years experience applying the arts as a therapeutic modality and offer meaningful creative experiences that foster strengths, empowerment, expression beyond words, and healing.

Hi everyone! My name is Jeana and if you can't already tell, I am currently interning at The Artful Life! I am a senior at Endicott College in Beverly, MA, however, I was born and raised in New York State. I have loved exploring the North Shore over the past three years. 

If you are looking to connect with the Artful Life, the first person you will probably be speaking with is Jen Spanedda, our Intake Coordinator! Jen started at the Artful Life in September 2018 as an intern, and joined the team as an official employee the following spring. She is thrilled to be a part of The Artful Life team and is grateful for the opportunity to promote and provide both individuals and greater community with the power of creative expression.

Rebecca is a licensed mental health counselor who earned her Masters degree in Art Therapy from Lesley University in 2010 and has since worked with children, adolescents, and adults in a variety of settings.  Being well versed in a multitude of art mediums, Rebecca is able to utilize a combination of approaches in her art therapy work that best meets the needs of the individual. 

Madelene is a licensed mental health counselor, board-certified, registered art therapist, and artist with a Master's degree in Art Therapy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also works as an adjunct professor at Lesley University. In addition to children and families, Madelene also works with adolescents and adults with a diverse range of issues. Her areas of clinical expertise include: anxiety, depression, PTSD, racing thoughts, anger management, hyperactivity, bipolar disorder, group work and parenting support.