Elemental Expressive Arts

Elemental Expressive Arts Rediscover the Magic of Life:
Reconnect to Creativity, Passion, & Purpose. Most insurances accepted

Elemental Expressive Arts aims to take you on a journey home to yourself At your pace, we will explore creativity, passion, play, & spirituality as paths to healing.

11/14/2025

📢 Exciting Announcement

🌎 I will be presenting for the 2026 World Art Therapy Conference, Category: Art Therapy and Neurodiversity, the weekend of February 21-22, 2026.

👩‍🏫 My presentation is titled: Creative Treatment Planning: Using Hyperfocus & Special Interest with Purpose

👉 Running theme throughout the presentation: how do I get them to make art, to move, toto make noise, to express?

📖 Join us in the new year to learn more about neuroaffirming expressive arts therapy practice. Sign up to get updates & notifications regarding the live stream: https://www.artstherapies.org/course/world-art-therapy-conference-2026

11/13/2025

Tree swing meditation. Nature is healing. Just breathe

10/30/2025

Morning Movement because movement is medicine.

10/25/2025

🌿 Expressive Arts Therapy Supervision Groups – Fall Openings! 🌿

In our recent group, we explored pendulating and titrating pain through a nature-based expressive arts process — learning to move gently between discomfort and soothing with creativity and compassion.

✨ Our session began with a guided visualization and grounding meditation, inviting each participant to connect with a soothing resource from nature — the warmth of the sun, the softness of moss, or the coolness of water (led by Dr. Elizabeth Warson). From there, supervisees practiced mindful pendulation, shifting attention between areas of tension and comfort while visualizing color and dilution to represent softening and transformation.

🎨 During our experiential art process (led by Sarah Newton Penston), we used natural items as paintbrushes — spiky seed pods to express pain, feathers and leaves to symbolize soothing (for ex.). Using mixed media, participants explored texture, transparency, and color layering as metaphors for regulation and healing. Through this practice, participants noticed how creative engagement and bilateral movement supported somatic awareness, emotional regulation, and integration.

🪶 Reflections from the group highlighted how nature-based materials can ground and expand emotional understanding — helping us embody both pain and relief within the same creative flow.

We also shared a rich discussion on how AI tools can ethically support expressive arts therapy — offering reflective prompts, organizing creative documentation, and deepening supervision practices while keeping the work human-centered and relational.

🌱 We currently offer three Expressive Arts Therapy Supervision Groups, with new openings this fall! This is an affordable ($65/group) and supportive way to fulfill your Expressive Arts Therapy certification requirements, connect with a vibrant community, and grow your clinical and creative practice.

📩 Message us for details or to reserve your spot. You can also email Elizabeth at warsonea@gmail.com

🌿 Expressive Arts Therapy Supervision Groups – Fall Openings! 🌿In our recent group, we explored pendulating and titratin...
10/25/2025

🌿 Expressive Arts Therapy Supervision Groups – Fall Openings! 🌿

In our recent group, we explored pendulating and titrating pain through a nature-based expressive arts process — learning to move gently between discomfort and soothing with creativity and compassion.

✨ Our session began with a guided visualization and grounding meditation, inviting each participant to connect with a soothing resource from nature — the warmth of the sun, the softness of moss, or the coolness of water (led by Dr. Elizabeth Warson). From there, supervisees practiced mindful pendulation, shifting attention between areas of tension and comfort while visualizing color and dilution to represent softening and transformation.

🎨 During our experiential art process (led by Sarah Newton Penston), we used natural items as paintbrushes — spiky seed pods to express pain, feathers and leaves to symbolize soothing (for ex.). Using mixed media, participants explored texture, transparency, and color layering as metaphors for regulation and healing. Through this practice, participants noticed how creative engagement and bilateral movement supported somatic awareness, emotional regulation, and integration.

🪶 Reflections from the group highlighted how nature-based materials can ground and expand emotional understanding — helping us embody both pain and relief within the same creative flow.

We also shared a rich discussion on how AI tools can ethically support expressive arts therapy — offering reflective prompts, organizing creative documentation, and deepening supervision practices while keeping the work human-centered and relational.

🌱 We currently offer three Expressive Arts Therapy Supervision Groups, with new openings this fall! This is an affordable ($65/group) and supportive way to fulfill your Expressive Arts Therapy certification requirements, connect with a vibrant community, and grow your clinical and creative practice.

📩 Message us for details or to reserve your spot. You can also email Elizabeth at warsonea@gmail.com

10/23/2025

Nurturing Pain with Expressive Arts Therapy. You're invited to our experiential Expressive Arts Therapy supervision, consultation, therapist support group.

10/18/2025

Art therapy is a valid, evidenced based clinical therapeutic approach.

Address

1601 Countryside Drive
Ringgold, VA
24586

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 12pm

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+17575241357

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About Us

Rising Heart Studios is all about positive forms of self-expression. We want to help you find your path to creativity, passion, and personal growth. We provide therapeutic services and artistry full of emotion. Sarah is an artist, licensed professional counselor, and registered art therapist. Billy is an artist, sculptor, music maker, and professional welder.

The artistry you find at Rising Heart Studios has depth and meaning. Behind the scenes, Sarah and Billy work together to figure out art techniques that will maximize the therapeutic value of pieces created by clients in art therapy sessions with Sarah. You can check out our personal artwork in the gallery section of the website.

We want to help you discover who you are and everything you can become. We want to help you create a life fueled by creativity and passion. Most of all, we want to help you find a side of life and yourself that you love.