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InTouch & Motion is a multilingual psychotherapy and creative arts therapies practice in Chicago IL.

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08/27/2025

Overwhelm isn’t just in your head. It settles into your body. Maybe it shows up as a tight chest, a racing heart, or a jaw that won’t unclench.

Embodiment practices create space for your body to release what your mind can’t reason its way through. With simple tools, you can begin to notice:

Read our latest blog post. Body-Based Coping for Overwhelm: 7 Gentle Tools to Calm Your Mind & Body

Link in bio.

08/19/2025

You might look composed in the meeting.

You might keep your voice calm with clients, kids, or loved ones.

But later, your body tells the truth.

Shoulders that refuse to drop.

A jaw so tight it aches by night.

Breath that never quite feels full.

Overwhelm doesn’t always look like a meltdown.

Sometimes, it’s this quiet, familiar hum of tension we barely notice.

Your body isn’t betraying you.

It’s speaking.

We invite you into internal resourcing:

🌿 Remembering the feel of your dog pressed against your side
☀️ Imagining sun warming your back
🎶 Letting a song soften your chest, even a little

And we go further:

🎨 Drawing the shape of steadiness
🩰 Moving your shoulders, your spine, until something releases
🖌 Turning memory into color, tension into rhythm

Want to learn gentle, body-based ways to return to yourself?

Read our latest blog: Body-Based Coping for Overwhelm (link in bio)

📍 Creative arts therapies in Chicago & virtual across Illinois

08/14/2025

Some healing starts beyond words.
In our latest blog, we explore why creative arts therapy can help when talk therapy alone hasn’t felt enough.

👉 Read: “What Therapy Looks Like When You’ve Tried It All” – link in bio.

08/07/2025

You’ve told your story in session.
You’ve named your feelings.
You’ve done “the work.”

And still, something feels... unfinished.

At InTouch & Motion, we meet so many people carrying the quiet frustration of wanting healing so badly, but feeling like words alone never reach what aches deepest.

It doesn’t mean you’ve failed.
It might just mean you’re ready for a new language of healing.

Creative arts therapies is about giving shape to what lives beyond words.

Movement that holds your grief.
Colors that express what can’t be said.
Sound that helps your body exhale.

If you’ve tried therapy and felt it didn’t “work,” know this:
Healing isn’t one-size-fits-all.

In our latest blog, we explore why creative approaches can help, and what therapy might look like when you’ve tried it all.

👉 Read: “What Therapy Looks Like When You’ve Tried It All” – Link in bio.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:
4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641
Main Office: 773-850-9046
http://www.intouchandmotion.com/contact

07/30/2025

Grief comes in many forms.

Sometimes it looks like burnout.

Sometimes it looks like irritability.

Sometimes it’s not being able to watch a certain movie anymore without tearing up for reasons you can’t explain.

We see this in therapy all the time.

When someone finally pauses long enough to notice what’s been quietly hurting, and sometimes for years.

There is a version of you that’s been left behind.

Maybe there was a community you had to walk away from.

There is a slow ache of things that didn’t go the way you thought they would.

Creative arts therapies gives us space to approach grief sideways ... gently, curiously, without needing to make sense of it first.

Through a sketch, a gesture, or a color you didn’t expect, your body begins to speak.

And here’s what we know:

You don’t have to be ready to let it go.

But it’s okay to begin witnessing it.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:

4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641

Main Office: 773-850-9046

www.intouchandmotion.com/contact

07/28/2025

If you’ve ever been called dramatic, sensitive, too intense—you’re not alone.

Many of our clients come to therapy carrying a story that their emotions are too big.
If you’ve ever been called dramatic, sensitive, or too intense, you’re not alone.

Maybe you have felt you had to shrink yourself to be loved.

Maybe you have felt your reactions must be wrong because no one else seems to feel as deeply.

But what if you were never “too much”?

What if your sensitivity is a sign of how deeply you care?

What if your reactions were never random, but rooted in experience?

What if your nervous system is still protecting you the best way it knows how?

At InTouch & Motion, we don’t pathologize sensitivity.

We honor it. We listen to it.

And through creative tools like movement, sound, and image, we help you build a relationship with it that feels safe, instead of overwhelming.

You don’t need to get smaller.

You just need space to be fully you.

4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641

Main Office: 773-850-9046

www.intouchandmotion.com/contact

07/22/2025

If traditional yoga spaces have never felt quite right for you… this one’s different.

We’re offering FREE tickets to the upcoming Yoga Beyond Poses workshop, designed with intention for those who need space to move, reflect, and reconnect without pressure, without pretense.

Saturday, July 26 at 10 AM – 11:15AM

These are small, affirming workshops that blend gentle movement with journaling, reflection, and creativity.

📍InTouch & Motion, 4028 W Irving Park Rd, Loft B, Chicago
🎟 Register on Eventbrite -link in bio!

(DISCOUNT APPLIES AUTOMATICALLY AT CHECKOUT)

If this sounds like something you’ve needed, we’d love to see you.

07/20/2025

We talk a lot about grief, pain, and holding hard things.

But healing isn’t only about what we’ve been through.

It’s also about what we’re moving toward.

Creative expression can be a way to hold hope when words aren’t enough, when your future feels blurry, when it’s too soon to celebrate but too late to stay where you are.

It’s a color that calms you, a song that lifts you, a movement that reminds you that something new is possible.

You don’t have to have it all figured out to make space for what could be.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:

4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641

Main Office: 773-850-9046

www.intouchandmotion.com/contact

07/19/2025

Some of us learned early how to stay calm, composed, and quiet.

How to keep things light.

How to take care of others first.

How to never let it all show.

But healing asks for more than composure.

It invites us to feel—not just think.

In expressive arts and creative arts therapies, we hold space for the bigness of what’s inside.

And if that feels unfamiliar, you’re not broken. You’ve been surviving.

In expressive arts and creative arts therapies, we hold space for the bigness of what’s inside.

Not by forcing it out but by giving it room to move, one breath, brushstroke, or stretch at a time.

You don’t need to be good at this.

You just have to be willing to be real.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:

4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641

Main Office: 773-850-9046

[www.intouchandmotion.com/contact](http://www.intouchandmotion.com/contact)

07/16/2025

When your work is to care for others… who holds space for you?

The tension in your shoulders that never quite leaves.

The silence you keep after witnessing someone else’s pain.

The quiet ache of feeling useful but rarely feeling seen.

At some point, even the most grounded therapist, educator, or healer needs a space to come back to themselves.

That’s what Authentic Movement for Helping Professionals offers:

A free monthly gathering where you can move without performance, breathe without explaining, and let your body speak, just for you.

Whether Authentic Movement is part of your practice or something you’ve never tried before, you’re welcome here.

Link in bio to book/RSVP.

📅 Next gathering: August 9
📍 InTouch & Motion
✉️ RSVP by emailing kiaran@intouchandmotion.com

07/15/2025

We hear this often in therapy:

“I know I should be grateful.”

“I have no reason to feel sad.”

“Nothing bad is happening, so why do I feel so heavy?”

Sometimes the hardest feelings to name are the quietest ones.

Creative arts therapies gives you a place to bring the things that feel small but still sit heavy in the body.

That nagging sense of disconnection.

That ache you can’t justify.

Creative arts therapies provide a space to bring the things that feel small but still weigh heavily in the body.

Through art, sound, movement, or image, we begin to reconnect with the parts of you that still remember how to feel.

Even when joy feels distant.

You don’t have to “earn” your way into therapy.

You have to be curious about what’s underneath the quiet.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:

4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641

Main Office: 773-850-9046

www.intouchandmotion.com/contact

07/10/2025

A deep breath.

A stretch that softens your chest.

A color that reminds you of being safe.

Nervous system regulation isn’t always about controlling how you feel.

It’s about creating space to feel it with more ease.

At InTouch & Motion, we’ve seen how art, movement, and sensory grounding can gently guide you back to yourself when the world feels too loud.

Some days regulation looks like stillness.

Other days, it looks like paint on your fingers or sound in your throat.

It’s not about getting it right. It’s about remembering that you can come home to yourself, again and again.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:
4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641
Main Office: 773-850-9046

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4028 W Irving Park Road Loft B
Chicago, IL
60641

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 10pm
Tuesday	8am - 10pm
Wednesday	8am - 10pm
Thursday	8am - 10pm
Friday	8am - 10pm
Saturday	8am - 10pm
Sunday	8am - 5pm

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+17738509046

Website

http://intouchandmotion.com/

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Creative Therapies and Healing Arts

At InTouch & Motion, we strive to create an open, creative, healing environment for you to explore, grow, and tap into your greatest Self! We work in collaboration with our clients to establish a plan that holistically integrates mind-body-spirit approaches. Growth and healing does not come in one form, and many times different parts of ourselves need nurturing and support.

Although we are all trained in traditional counseling and talk therapy, we are a team of healers that offer you so much more! Our range of services - dance/movement therapy, music therapy, art therapy, psychotherapy, heart centered hypnotherapy, past life regressions, energetic healing, and intuitive wellness - aim to help you find the right balance of support and opportunities to meet your needs. Contact us for more details about one or more of our services.