Description
This art therapy group is designed for adult women who are experiencing cPTSD or other forms of trauma. The group offers a safe and supportive environment where members can explore their emotions and experiences through art. Each session includes mindfulness exercises, art exploration activities, and opportunities for group sharing and support. Members are also given ideas to try at home, helping them continue their healing journey between sessions.
Participation requires a commitment to 8 sessions, regardless of attendance, to maintain the group’s cohesion and security. A short online chat is required to start, after which intake forms and consents will be sent online for completion before the group begins. The group is accessible to those with lower incomes through sliding scale options.
The group is led by Maggi Colwell (MS, ATR-BC), a board-certified art therapist with specialized training in trauma and complicated grief. Maggi continues to study depth therapy and art therapy at the CG Jung Institute Zurich, bringing compassionate expertise to create a holistic and meaningful art therapy experience.
Group Therapist
Maggi Colwell is a Jungian oriented art therapist in private practice. She specializes in working with overachieving women who consider themselves people-pleasers, perfectionists, and caretakers. Maggi takes her clients further in therapy by utilizing a depth therapy approach. Clients resolve regrets, make sense of the past, and get control over how past experiences are affecting current situations. Maggi works with clients to create individualized treatment for each client that goes beyond dry, manualized programs. This approach utilizes theories of Carl Jung in which the images from clients’ artwork and dreams are used to inform the course of therapy as an effective way to treat trauma and express complex emotions.
Depth art psychotherapy treats trauma by engaging with the visual and emotional centers of the brain. Persistent and repetitive nightmares can change with this treatment approach so that clients can metabolize these nightly messages rather than running from these scary symptoms.
In therapy, Maggi helps clients become more comfortable with physical symptoms and sensations to get out of their head and into their bodies. Maggi does this with art therapy, guided meditation, and grounding, focusing exercises. From there, Maggi explores with clients their values, and helps them get their unspoken needs met and gain a sense of guided purpose. These needs may include setting limits, trusting their intuition, life satisfaction, rest, and eliminating burnout.
In addition to art therapy training, Maggi has several years of training in dream work and archetypes. They are continuing this training as a training candidate with the CG Jung Institute Zurich.
Maggi works with people online in New York and Delaware Mondays through Thursdays. Contact Maggi for specific time availability.
