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.

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

06/27/2022

Imagine your on a boat, a big storm just came in. You feel scared and worried. In the corner of your eye you see a lighthouse, calling you in, beckoning safety. What do you see? How does it feel?

06/08/2022

I can’t even believe it’s been an entire month since I have come from our vacation out west ❤️ it felt so wonderful to travel, have no agenda, and just be with family. It’s been a whirlwind of trying to catch up and balance those beautiful vacation vibes. How do you keep your vacation alive once returning home?

05/10/2022

Thank you so much for these beautiful, thoughtful, diverse, and comforting books. I feel so grateful to be able to receive these books to share with our community ❤️ wrote the most beautiful card, part of what she wrote, “carol’s lufht was founded on the idea that we are stronger together” and I couldn’t agree more.

03/01/2022

There is so much happening in the World right now. It’s overwhelming, hard to comprehend, so many feelings of anger, anxiety and sadness. Here is what I have been sharing with my clients and myself! 🌟if you need to keep up to date with world events, read the newspaper (or online source) or listen to the radio. Watching the news on tv can affect us differently and can be more traumatizing. Always take news or social media breaks when it if affecting your mental health. 🌟take time to ground (use your 5 senses). 🌟run your hands under cold water 🌟do something comforting (drink some warm tea) 🌟go out in nature.

02/28/2022

We need to acknowledge thoughts that are not helpful so we can contain them and cope through and forward. What does your container look like? How do you cope?

02/14/2022

Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️ how can you celebrate love today? Love for yourself, pets, friends, family and community?

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167 Centre Street
Shelburne, ON

Telephone

+15199390085

Website

http://www.thecreativesocialworker.com/

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