The Creative Social Worker with Tiffany McCabe

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The Creative Social Worker with Tiffany McCabe

Welcome! I am "The creative Social Worker". I combine my two passions in life, Social Work and Art Therapy.

This allows us to creatively look at your life's concerns and find creative solutions and a new way to look at your own wellness journey.

03/30/2026

I’m going to be 40 in a couple weeks. I’m not sure how to feel about this. My Gram would never tell any of us her age, she had my uncle and mom young (like teenage young) and died young. I think part of her influenced me to fear my age, along with experiencing many deaths at a young age. A race against time-always needing to do everything right now and maybe a tad impulsively. Fear, creativity, dreams. Chasing dreams, chasing creativity. Noticing fear and being curious about it. The uncertainty of it all. That’s what becoming 40 is. Trying my best to embrace this. Embrace fear. The unravelling of it all. I’m ready for it (kind of!). I’m loving reading this book right now ❤️❤️❤️

03/23/2026

Just imagining that I am sitting in the hot sun on a beach, instead of looking at the snow blowing by my window

02/09/2026

So I created a let’s paint together video and can’t figure out how to upload it lol- so here is a picture of the heart weave I made, a little Monday reminder to make space for creativity ❤️❤️

02/02/2026

When I was in my last year of my psychology degree at the university of Ottawa, I read “the art of possibilities” by Benjamin Zander. This book changed my life, how I viewed myself and the world. It rooted me in possibilities without limits. It allowed me to say yes to a life that I sometimes can’t believe I have lived- traveling to some pretty remote places, studying multiple different things, having a family of my own, building and creating a creative therapy practice and some pretty amazing friendships. However 6 months ago I experienced the death of my best friend- a possibility that I never thought would ever happen. I’ve kept this information to myself, even though I’m a pretty open book when it comes to therapy. I believe in showing up authentically (which means many of you see my ADHD messy parts), however this death felt too much. Too much I wasn’t ready to feel. I felt numb and in shock. I went into rescue mode, which rolled into complete stuck mode. For the first time, I lost my anchor in possibility. The heaviness was too heavy. Grief is a funny thing, the world continues to move on, while you are stuck in a moment. Grief makes time blurry. Grief makes you want to “live a life worth living” while at the same time drowning in sorrow. 6 months in and I have started to see possibilities again. Starting to re-imagine my future self. Starting to shake the heaviness off. I’m sharing this so I can reclaim that authenticity. To share that we can’t cut out the tough things or ignore them. Life is precious and possibilities are even more precious. Passion and creativity are magic, let us anchor in that magic ❤️

01/14/2026

How sweet is this ❤️❤️❤️❤️

01/05/2026

Happy Monday post holiday season. Glad I have a day to catch up on paper work, emails and phone calls. I’ll be doing this with crazy hair and comfy clothes ❤️❤️❤️

07/08/2025

The use of metaphors can be an important tool in understanding and reflecting

11/20/2024

Some early morning art marking ❤️ what do you see?

09/26/2024

Tomorrow is my last day I have been reflecting on this for weeks now. My heart aches with the end of this chapter. I first walked into hospice Dufferin 9 years ago. I was desperate for art therapy practicum hours. I was 4 months pregnant. As I walked in, I also held onto my own fear of grief and palliative care. I was in grade 6 when I experienced my first heartbreaking death of my Poppa. He had aplastic anemia- a disease at that time was difficult to treat. The loss of him was devastating. Shortly afterwards I would deal with the loss of my Gram, and my mom’s own cancer diagnosis. I dealt with this pain through art. The emotional pain was too much for anything else. I remember in university taking a death and dying class. I remember hoping it would help me work through my own pain (it didn’t by the way- knowing the stages of grief isn’t the only thing to know about grief). At that point I decided I would never do any sort of social work with death and dying. It was simply too painful. During that course I was also dealing with the anticipatory death of my Grandfather, I mourned as he remembered less and less. This further solidified my no grief counselling decision. Fast forward, as I sat in Maureen’s office trying to convince her and myself that art therapy was needed for hospice in Dufferin and I had to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. The training I had for always having a blank neutral face was thrown out the window as I shared tears, held hands, listened with my heart, held space and held hope, held sadness while sometimes laughing at the same time. I am forever grateful to for allowing me to heal, allowing me to hold onto my own grief, knowing grief never fully leaves us, it’s always the love we hold onto.

08/10/2023

Isn’t perspective beautiful

08/01/2023

Grief can be difficult, it is something our brain can’t quite comprehend. Using metaphors, using our senses (like touch, smell, taste, sound, sight) we are able to understand in a different way. For me grief is like looking up at a clear night sky. The stars shine bright and look so beautiful with the knowledge that I can never touch one. What is your grief metaphor? Is there an image that comes to mind?

12/09/2022

It’s been a hot minute since my last post- sorry social media is the first thing I give up when I need to be more present and grounded. I wanted to hop on though to let everyone know I’ve taken the plunge into psychotherapy matters. It’s a service that allows me and clients who are in need of psychiatric care to have appointments with a psychiatrist in therapy sessions. It was a gap within my services that I have now filled. Yay for mental wellness

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Shelburne, ON

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