NADINE CRESCENZI
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REGISTERED PSYCHOTHERAPIST (QUALIFYING)
​CLINICAL ART THERAPIST & ART PSYCHOTHERAPIST
PGDIP, AOCAD, DCIIAT, RP-Q

​Pronouns: She/Her
Languages: English
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CLIENTS: adolescents, adults, and caregivers
AREAS OF PRACTICE:  Addiction, Anxiety, Aphantasia, Codependency, Coping Skills, Depression, Emotional Regulation, Life Transitions, Changes, Greif & Loss, Self Esteem, Self-Identity, Trauma, PTSD, Complex Trauma, Abuse
TREATMENT MODELS: Art Therapy, Mindfulness, Breathing
FEE: $145

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ABOUT

My name is Nadine and I am a Clinical Art Therapist and Registered Art Psychotherapist RT-Q with CRPO. I am a graduate of OCAD; the Ontario College of Art and Design and CiiAT; the Canadian International Institute of Art Therapy with an Art Psychotherapy Diploma program. I am a member in good standing with CATA; the Canadian Art Therapy Association.
​I believe art therapy provides space to explore the body-mind-heart-spirit connection. Art promotes self-expression, self-awareness and self-discovery—enhancing self-regulation, coping skills and resilience. I work from an integrative, holistic, mindful, humanistic, strengths-based, positive, and trauma informed foundation. Integrating an array of concepts through an art-based approach. My focus is to collaborate with clients to set personal goals and guide personal discovery by accessing their inner-creator—inspiring healthy movement towards growth, transformation, and healing. 
 Art stimulates one's imagination and innovation, non-verbally. Art is its own language—a form of communication, preceding developed language. Therefore, art therapy is highly beneficial for clients who are nervous or new to therapy, who struggle to articulate their experiences. It is especially beneficial for clients who have experienced trauma—as trauma is coded in our visual and sensory memory. Art is an opening to externalize and process emotions and experiences—increasing insight, self-discovery and self-empowerment. Moving clients from surviving to thriving to becoming. 
I offer a welcoming, barrier-free therapeutic space, where all clients feel supported and empowered to create change. I meet my clients with acceptance, compassion and empathy for where they are in the present moment.  Where they can safely be open to explore through an array of art mediums, stimulating healing and well-being. Bringing awareness to the transformative capacity of creativity and witness their life with curiosity, possibility and potential.