Eden Art Therapy/Las Vegas Art Therapy

02/21/2025

Transformation is underway, and its impact is yet to be determined. Seize the opportunity to shape the changes you desire. You have the power to make it happen!

02/19/2025

I frequently remind my clients, “It’s only in discomfort that true change can occur” because if we sit in the status quo’s of our everyday we do not have the motivation to change. So get out there! Do something different everyday! You will give yourself a gift even if you are not aware yet of what that gift is.

02/28/2024

Art Therapist Barbie. Kinda cool to be the first representation of a mental health professional. I might have to get one and give her a makeover though, especially because art therapy is not just for kids. I prefer dogs too 🤭

Barbie just embarked on a new career as an art therapist! Barbie has had more than 250 careers, but this is her FIRST in the field! 🩷🩷🩷

At a time when children are facing a multitude of mental health crises, AATA hopes will give parents and caregivers an opportunity to talk about mental health with kids and explore the power of art-making in wellness.

Learn more about : https://arttherapy.org/news-art-therapy-barbie/

11/28/2022

Our work together is more multifaceted that we can even know!

10/29/2022

I love this! All true!

Change Your Perspective… Growth

Written by Melanie Benham

08/16/2022

08/05/2022

"No piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm piece has. It's programmed to try to contain the hydraulic fluid that’s constantly leaking out and required to keep itself running...if too much escapes, it will die so it's desperately trying to pull it back to continue to fight for another day. Saddest part is they gave the robot the ability to do these 'happy dances' to spectators. When the project was first launched it danced around spending most of its time interacting with the crowd since it could quickly pull back the small spillage. Many years later... (as you see it now in the video) it looks tired and hopeless as there isn't enough time to dance anymore.. It now only has enough time to try to keep itself alive as the amount of leaked hydraulic fluid became unmanageable as the spill grew over time. Living its last days in a never-ending cycle between sustaining life and simultaneously bleeding out... (Figuratively and literally as its hydraulic fluid was purposefully made to look like it's actual blood).

"The robot arm finally ran out of hydraulic fluid in 2019, slowly came to a halt and died - And I am now tearing up over a friggin robot arm. It was programmed to live out this fate and no matter what it did or how hard it tried, there was no escaping it. Spectators watched as it slowly bled out until the day that it ceased to move forever. Saying that 'this resonates' doesn't even do it justice imo. Created by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, they named the piece, 'Can't Help Myself'. What a masterpiece. What a message."

Extended interpretations: the hydraulic fluid in relation to how we kill ourselves both mentally and physically for money just in an attempt to sustain life, how the system is set up for us to fail on purpose to essentially enslave us and to steal the best years of our lives to play the game that the richest people of the world have designed. How this robs us of our happiness, passion and our inner peace. How we are slowly drowning with more responsibilities, with more expected of us, less rewarding pay-offs and less free time to enjoy ourselves with as the years go by. How there's really no escaping the system and that we were destined at birth to follow a pretty specific path that was already laid out before us. How we can give and give and give and how easily we can be forgotten after we've gone.. How we are loved and respected when we are valuable, then one day we aren't any longer and we become a burden...and how our young, free-caring spirit gets stolen from us as we get churned out of the broken system that we are trapped inside of. Can also be seen to represent the human life cycle and the fact that none of us make it out of this world alive. But also can act as a reminder to allow yourself to heal, rest and love with all of your heart. That the endless chase for 'more' isn't necessary in finding your own inner happiness.”

- James Kricked Parr

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/34812

11/24/2021

Thea holiday season has begun. We all know that getting together with family can sometimes be difficult.
Know that you have a right to healthy boundaries and feelings!
Here’s a gentle reminder.
If you are in need of support, I’m here for you.