Play leads to healing, joy, growth, and creativity.
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Play leads to healing, joy, growth, and creativity. 〰️〰️〰️
Healing & Play
Trauma-informed creative art and sand play sessions support healing and self-expression in a safe environment that can be serene or lively, celebrates diversity, and honors everyone’s journey.
Sessions for individuals, small groups and families.
“Ali Roland is a highly regarded arts educator and consummate creative arts facilitator, whose deeply empathic presence is both affirming and inspiring. Attuning, adapting, and assessing the needs of both individual clients and groups, Ali skillfully bridges the educational and healing dimensions of the expressive arts, and in so doing, is the quintessence of the adage: all art is therapeutic!”
–Lucy Barbera, PhD, LCAT Director, Trauma-Informed Creative Art Therapy Certificate Programs
At Ali Roland Studio, a creative arts studio for healing and play located in the beautiful Hudson Valley and town of Red Hook, NY, I offer individual, small group, and family sessions. Hour-long sessions are designed to help clients manage anxiety, grief, loss, social challenges, school worry and stress, divorce, and relationships. Through a playful creative practice we express and explore feelings through visual art, learning to regulate emotions, manage stress, find hope, tell stories, use our voices, and experience healing. A sand play tray facilitates story-telling that helps participants replace fears with hopes and gain insight on lived experience. In the studio you can draw, paint, make masks, sew, collage, make prints, sculpt with clay—all with the goal to move toward self-discovery, free expression, and joy.
Individual client: $120
Group rates dependent on the number of participants
No insurance accepted
Payment: Cash, Venmo or Paypal
Contact Ali Roland for a free 15 minute consultation.
“Expressive art therapy integrates all of the arts in a safe, non-judgmental setting to facilitate personal growth and healing. To use the arts expressively means going into our inner realms to discover feelings and to express them through visual art, movement, sound, writing, or drama. This process fosters release, self-understanding, insight and awakens creativity and transpersonal states of consciousness.”
–Natalie Rogers
Ali Roland is a NYS visual art PreK-12 certified educator and uses the National Core Arts Standards and the NYS Arts Learning Standards in her curriculum content and practice. She also holds a certificate in Trauma-Informed Creative Art and Sand Play Therapy from the Creative Arts Therapy Studio and Antioch University. Ali also has training in Restorative Justice Practice through the Dutchess Mediation Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. Her studio is LGBTQIA+ safe.