Our Values
At Many Moons, we are deeply committed to creating a place where every person who walks through our doors will feel welcomed, safe, and supported through their growth. We welcome and celebrate diversity of all kinds and are deeply committed to advocacy on behalf of marginalized communities. Our emotional health care is gender-affirming and we are outspoken allies for the LGBTQIA+ community. We stand for everyone’s right to be the expert on their own journey and to have their voice heard and uplifted.
Many Moons strives to provide a decolonized therapeutic environment. To us, this means acknowledging the systemic effects of colonization that disproportionately affect certain groups including the queer community, immigrants, people of color, and differently abled or neurodiverse people. It also means empowering our clients to honor their histories and to be active partners in their healing journeys.
What is Arts-Based Psychotherapy?
The expressive arts are creative materials and tools which allow an individual to communicate without talking. By using drawing, sculpture, music, poetry, puppetry, and sand trays, adults and children alike are offered a safe, non-judgmental, and accessible opportunity to share their psychological and behavioral challenges. Through this authentic and often spontaneous process, individuals can gain access to their feelings, practice new ways of expressing themselves, and learn alternative behaviors. Our therapists and our physical spaces foster creativity, curiosity, self-expression, and relationship-building. Our therapy approach is strengths-based, person-centered, identity-affirming, and relational.
"There is a treasure chest. We discover new things, like feelings and new feelings and art. I have a gate thing. And a lock. With scary and ugly things inside. When we are drawing, it is like a new discovery. Every time I come here, it is a new discovery."
- Mikayla age 12