Therapy is relational. It happens in the space between us, through dialogue, presence, and trust that builds over time. We move between words and other languages: movement, image, sound, story. Expressive arts psychotherapy weaves together talking and making. We find the balance in each session.

Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.

- bell hooks

You might be here because

You're working on self-esteem and self-worth. You're unlearning old stories about who you are and what you're worth.

You're navigating relationship patterns with family, friends, partners, or at work. This could include intergenerational stories and experiences that feel unresolved. You're ready to understand what's really happening beneath the surface.

You're exploring your relationship to culture, identity, or environment. You're asking who you are in a larger context, and what it means to belong (or not belong).

You may be a caregiver tending to the needs of others and struggling to tend to your own needs.

You're carrying something that needs more than words: grief, trauma, transition, or something you can't quite name yet.

You're drawn to working with someone who understands that healing involves the body and imagination as much as it involves insight.

Expressive arts psychotherapy is relational, embodied, and creative

Expressive arts psychotherapy is a form of relational psychotherapy. The relationship between us is at the heart of the work. The trust, presence, and space we create together is what allows healing to happen.

We talk. We also move, draw, write, sound, and witness. Not because talking isn't enough, but because sometimes the body knows something before the mind does. Sometimes an image says what words can't hold. Sometimes making something together shifts what conversation alone can't reach.

You don't need to be an artist. You just need to be willing to be curious and trust the process.

How it works

Step 1: Reach out

Send an email or book a free 20-minute consultation. No pressure, no commitment. Just a conversation to see if we might be a good fit.

Step 3: Begin

If it feels right, you'll book your first session. Sessions are available online across Ontario, or in person at the Village Healing Centre in Toronto's west end. Sessions are $150 for 50 minutes. Sliding scale available.

Step 2: Meet Bee

In your free consultation, you'll get a sense of how Bee works, what expressive arts psychotherapy feels like, and whether this approach resonates with you. You can ask anything.

Meet Bee

Bee Pallomina is an Expressive Arts Therapist and Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with over 30 years of experience as a dancer, collaborator, and somatic educator.

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