Keshet Zur - Expressive Arts Therapist

Keshet is an Expressive Arts Therapist. She offers therapy in person from Artonomy, Dublin, Ireland and online therapy sessions are available through the Covid 19 crisis and beyond. In Expressive Arts Therapy (EXA) clients are supported through engagement with various creative art processes such as visual arts, creative writing and movement. Both life and art require improvisational skills, resilience and the necessary hands on experience of shaping from materials available. When working with creative processes, we gain insight previously unreachable which supports us with life challenges; psychological, emotional, behavioural, trauma, relationships or transitions. Keshet works with both adults and children. Her experience includes working with adults on the autism spectrum and children with life threatening illness. Keshet’s practice is trauma informed and person centred.

Expressive Arts Ireland work in four main areas:• Therapy• Education• Social Change• Performance and Community Arts We offer:• Therapy sessions for individuals and groups.• Unique M.A. training program aspart of the European graduate School in Switzerland. • Dynamic groups for personal development. (Weekly sessions)• Storytelling and Performance for events in schools, festivals, communities, libraries...

Expressive Arts Therapy is founded on the premise that everyone is capable of making meaningful art and that the process and/or product is always helpful to the client.

Therefore, we embody a low skill, high sensitivity approach. We are not technique oriented, but rather gear all our groups and sessions so that any person, regardless of their artistic talent or previous experience, can enter into the process.

We guide the client into their senses and their sensitivity to create work. We look together observantly at what has been created without critique or judgment. There can often be educational or instructional components to the art making that are naturally imbedded within the 

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We also hold that the client is the expert of their art and therefore will let meaning emerge through a reflective process that assists the client in discovering their own resources. We call this Aesthetic Analysis, which gives careful attention to what is actually there on the page, in the dance or song and allows for the whole experience to touch them. We do not codify images, colors, movements to any external meaning other than the client’s own experience.

We work in the arts modalities such as: music, theatre, writing, visual arts, storytelling, nature, dance/movement and will often incorporate more than one modality into a session. Intermodal refers to our ability to shift into different art making modalities to bring more of the senses into play, to receive more information about an image, and or to facilitate where the images are leading the client. The therapist is knowledgeable in the language of all these art forms and how they interrelate.

We are grounded in theories from philosophy, sociology, education, ecopsycology, and anthropology as well as psychology that acknowledge arts as medicine. In expressive arts we practice that the making and finding what arrives with reflection is a healing act.

Creating art with sensitive awareness is a similar process as creating our lives.

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