Andrea Sutrick Art Therapy LLC

12/15/2025

Let's contemplate the meaning behind the "Happy Holidays." Read on to help you connect with your true spirit of the season...

Embracing the mystery of happy holidays

11/30/2025

The whisper of winter is upon us… Sharing a creative image & poem below. ❄️

The business of our commercial world should be restated as “busy-ness.” While celebrating and sharing time with others, Winter Solstice and the days of winter invite us to slow down. Much like animals in hibernation, the shorter days help us to conserve energy and slow our heart rate. I’m sharing again an old painting and poem offering you an invitation for pause this season.

“Ode to Winter Solstice”
Shortest of days, dimness and grays
A winter solstice chill, only the winds distill
A time to pause,
Curled for slumber, ice candles sing ‘n shimmer
Narcissus bulbs tower tall
Wafting a gentle perfume call
Inviting all to reflect on roots
Origins, beginnings, all a’foot
For the darkness of days
Summon in spirit’s presence
Jovial torches by moonlight
Joys, celebrations, a Turkish delight.
For the squirrel loosens its toil
As earth begins to tilt and coil
Towards longest of days, with warm slivers of rays
As we thank with ritual to winter
May the hand summon me hither
Pointing beyond celestial light
The days will grow long and shorten the night.

11/25/2025

I’m happy to contribute art alongside fellow Art Therapists at the 2025 Art Therapy Conference.

Click below to view the exhibition. See if you can locate my Florida jungle, nature peacock and where mountains meet the beach, all art based on my experiences and reflections while in nature. 🙂
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We are thrilled to share with you AATA’s 2025 Member Art Exhibition! This year, we invited AATA Members to share their artwork related to our AATA2025 conference theme, Ascending To New Heights. The art was displayed at both our In-Person Conference in Portland, Oregon, Oct. 8 – 11, as well as during our Virtual Conference, Oct. 25 – 26.

The theme, Ascending To New Heights, celebrates the growth of our profession and the significant achievements of art therapists. It’s also a nod to Oregon’s stunning Cascade Mountain Range and particularly, Mount Hood—its highest peak, visible from Portland.

https://youtu.be/rg5uNvVrCA

We are thrilled to share with you AATA's 2025 Member Art Exhibition! This year, we invited AATA Members to share their artwork related to our AATA2025 confer...

11/22/2025

11/11/2025

In one encapsulating night, “Love and Lights” brought respite and a break from the earthly world. Artmaking for days brought me to share:

So what could one night of love do in this fraught world with…

Isolation?… We talked with one another.
Idle hands?… We made art.
Distaste?… Our tastebuds were enlivened with good food.
Silence?… We turned up the good music.
Injustice?… We chose to collaborate & respond.
What’s hidden?… We discovered what we are seeking is right here.
Fear…? We opened up with a smile and a laugh.

So honored to experience this pause… outdoors with community, laughter, lights, love, food, music and art.

May this be true:
“The hope that will manifest the future is present.” ~Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi

10/25/2025

Feeling that creative Halloween spirit! Happy to lend a hand for our community's 24th Ghost Walk to experience our city’s history! 🧡🖤

10/12/2025

10/11/2025

4 Years Ago Today, a dream started…

🫶🏽Happy 4th anniversary to Andrea Sutrick Art Therapy! 🎉

💓My passion for bringing art therapy with EMDR has supported so many good people needing a new way to experience therapy and feel lighter…

📷You’ve heard the saying, “a picture is worth a 1,000 words.”

🖼️Images from art therapy help when words fail us.

🪄Pictures of pain transform with the healing of lines and color.

💕May this healing work continue for years to come!

Are you ready to find your calm, clarity & change? Supporting adults, professionals, active-duty, vets, 1st responders & spouses. Request a free consult at:

https://www.andreasutrickarttherapy.com/

09/21/2025

The cure for your own reconnection & healing in troubled times....

As part of a visual journaling practice in nature, get outdoors, inhale some fresh air and pine, shimmy-wade on colored rocks in a creek and let the art process and poetry speak...

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“To Eternal Life, Pine Queen”

Splintered yellow, heavied crash
Bolted lightning came out of a flash
Floored all creatures, people around
Some froze
Some ran for covered ground
Jolted from her long-tapped roots
As her pine ancestors
Sap-sipped from her boots
Woodpecker heckled and fled up high
Gopher tortoises burrowed and lie
Beneath towering pine-barked trunks above
Her resin softened her resolve with love
As she pondered soils and sands below
Had become stripped and sifted
Til her scales of pinecones drifted
Plunging to the tea-stained Coldwater
Rejuvenating cold, clear creek wonder
Her rainbowed soul is evergreen
Now all her colors return
To eternal life, Pine Queen.

09/18/2025

If you've ever connected to the mystery and awe of art... learn more about the science behind art experiences. Viewing art, making art and experiencing art with others has healing benefits for brain health according to this research article by the American Psychological Association (APA)...

How to unleash the power of neuroaesthetics for health, well-being, and social change.

09/16/2025

Want to hear about the incredible art that rose from the ashes of the worst atrocity of the 20th century? There's a presentation that will be live-streamed on Instagram, Thursday September 18th 6:00pm Eastern/ 5:00pm Central about the art of the Holocaust for the Holocaust Education Resource Council (HERC) at the student union of Tallahassee State College.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17LG2jtAJg/

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09/16/2025

Over 300 attendees at the EMDRIA Conference 2025 learned about enhancing EMDR with Body movement and Art. As an Art Therapist, I am SO grateful for learning these strategies to help my clients reorient to their bodies & reprocess trauma for holistic healing.

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