Creative Pathways
Therapy & Workshops to help you find your way
Brooklyn-based in-person and remote psychotherapist offering therapy sessions to adults 17+. Home of RESTORATIVE PERFORMANCE, a monthly in-person arts and performance therapeutic workshop in Brooklyn and beyond. Join our incubator to make art from your experiences.
Barbara (Ara) is a an arts and EMDR therapist in New York
Anxiety. Worry. Depression. Mood swings. Dealing with trauma. Feeling unstable and unhappy in your life. If you suffer from any of these issues you are not alone. Many suffer for years in solitude because help can be difficult to ask for, too expensive to afford, or there isn’t enough time to take care of your primary responsibilities and yourself too.
I may be able to help. My name is Barbara McGlamery>>, and I am a licensed psychotherapist and creative arts therapist in Brooklyn NY who uses talk therapy as well as creative arts therapies and EMDR to help individuals navigate their lives to find meaning and joy amidst the instability of life.
In addition to individual therapy, EMDR, and creative coaching we offer creative arts therapy workshops such as RESTORATIVE PERFORMANCE, where we let art help us make meaning of our lives.
Our Services
Creative Pathways offers individual in-person and remote talk, art, and EMDR therapy for adults in New York State. In-person sessions at my office in Greenpoint Brooklyn
Therapeutic performance workshops such as RESTORATIVE PERFORMANCE where movement, music, drama and visual arts guide self exploration and give voice to our experiences
The Details:
Creative Pathways Therapy is strength-based, meaning we find your already existing strengths that everyone has access to and build on it with a personalized plan of practice that can allow for a stronger sense of self to emerge to help deal with life’s stressors.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) deepens the therapy work by processing past trauma that is still alive for the person today. EMDR can help you recognize the negative beliefs that keep you stuck in a distressing never-ending cycle of worry and rumination. Or feeling disassociated, cut-off, or distracted. There is relief in releasing yourself from the negative false beliefs that allows for fresh interpretations of past events. In other words, growth. More here>>
Our approach is to combine EMDR with Art and Drama Therapy theories such as Role Method and other parts-oriented approaches, such as IFS, Internal Family Systems, to help clients discover and navigate the many aspects of themselves. Many come to terms with and in many cases, grieve the past, finding a way to move on. You can’t change the past, no one can. But you can come to a different and more compassionate understanding of yourself and what happened.
Sessions are 45-minutes, once a week, in-person or remote, which can be combined with 90-minute EMDR intensives can help produce profound change.
Not sure what kind of therapy is right for you? Explore the different modalities I use.
Should you be in-person, local, or remote? Let’s explore the differences>>
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