Mariya Garnet
Student of Expressive Arts Psychotherapy, Practicum
Mariya is a multifaceted artist, coach, and facilitator with a rich background that encompasses a diverse range of disciplines. Her journey began with musical education back home in Ukraine, leading to an advanced diploma in Media Arts, with a focus on filmmaking, from Sheridan College, Oakville. Mariya also holds a diploma in practical psychology from the Institute of Advanced Psychotechnologies in Russia, specializing in Integral Neuroprogramming.
Since 2008 Mariya has been immersed in the indigenous ways of addressing mental and spiritual health is an ongoing apprenticeship within the Amazonian Vegetalismo tradition.
Currently, Mariya is a postgraduate student at the CREATE Institute in Toronto, where she is deepening her knowledge in the Expressive Arts Psychotherapy program.
Additionally, she is an active member of the sound healing duo, Project Mariri. Mariya regularly hosts community events and workshops, leveraging music as a powerful tool for healing and self-discovery.
Drawing on her extensive experience and education, Mariya's therapeutic approach is deeply rooted in nature, incorporating elements of indigenous mental healthcare. Her sessions frequently take place outdoors, where she employs natural materials to facilitate a reconnection with the environment and its inherent wisdom. By reintroducing rituals and ceremonies into her psychotherapeutic practice, Mariya imbues her work with profound significance and a sense of interconnectedness with all our relations.
Furthermore, Mariya utilizes music as her primary means of self-expression, guiding her clients to discover their unique rhythms and attain inner harmony through sound.
What is Expressive Arts Therapy?
Expressive Arts therapy – a purposeful application and integration of art, music, dance/movement, dramatic enactment, creative writing, and imaginative play – is an action- oriented and sensory- based form of psychotherapy.
The core principle of this work is that while we all have different capacity for creativity, we all can be expressive in one way or another, and there are many ways of being expressive.
It is a way to help people discover forms of expression that are self-regulating, engage in enlivening self-exploration, communicate challenging sensations and experiences in reparative ways, and ultimately supporting recovery by imagining new meanings.
Expressive Arts Therapy offers a possibility of letting the senses tell the story, self-sooth brain and body, engage somatically, enhance non-verbal communication, recover self-efficacy and rescript dominant narratives while imagining new meanings and restoring aliveness.
Mariya will be offering a 10 Session class at our Clarksburg clinic, beginning Wednesday April 24th, from 2-3:30pm!
Since 2008 Mariya has been immersed in the indigenous ways of addressing mental and spiritual health is an ongoing apprenticeship within the Amazonian Vegetalismo tradition.
Currently, Mariya is a postgraduate student at the CREATE Institute in Toronto, where she is deepening her knowledge in the Expressive Arts Psychotherapy program.
Additionally, she is an active member of the sound healing duo, Project Mariri. Mariya regularly hosts community events and workshops, leveraging music as a powerful tool for healing and self-discovery.
Drawing on her extensive experience and education, Mariya's therapeutic approach is deeply rooted in nature, incorporating elements of indigenous mental healthcare. Her sessions frequently take place outdoors, where she employs natural materials to facilitate a reconnection with the environment and its inherent wisdom. By reintroducing rituals and ceremonies into her psychotherapeutic practice, Mariya imbues her work with profound significance and a sense of interconnectedness with all our relations.
Furthermore, Mariya utilizes music as her primary means of self-expression, guiding her clients to discover their unique rhythms and attain inner harmony through sound.
What is Expressive Arts Therapy?
Expressive Arts therapy – a purposeful application and integration of art, music, dance/movement, dramatic enactment, creative writing, and imaginative play – is an action- oriented and sensory- based form of psychotherapy.
The core principle of this work is that while we all have different capacity for creativity, we all can be expressive in one way or another, and there are many ways of being expressive.
It is a way to help people discover forms of expression that are self-regulating, engage in enlivening self-exploration, communicate challenging sensations and experiences in reparative ways, and ultimately supporting recovery by imagining new meanings.
Expressive Arts Therapy offers a possibility of letting the senses tell the story, self-sooth brain and body, engage somatically, enhance non-verbal communication, recover self-efficacy and rescript dominant narratives while imagining new meanings and restoring aliveness.
Mariya will be offering a 10 Session class at our Clarksburg clinic, beginning Wednesday April 24th, from 2-3:30pm!