I’ve closed my studio space to offer online and outreach sessions only. Thanks to all the wonderful people who came to the studio for in-person group and individual sessions. I was honoured to be part of your healing journeys at 504 Ave L South.
Follow this site to get updates about virtual/online and outreach sessions. Virtual/online sessions are expected to start the beginning of August. Outreach sessions for groups and individuals are expected to resume in January 2026.
Parents of children and youth with autism are invited to find out about art therapy and how to access provincial Individualized Funding to cover the cost of sessions. Information will be shared by myself and David Baudemont DKATI about the art therapy profession and the benefits of art therapy for autistic children and youth. The session will end with a Q and A.
7 pm on May 29, 2025 at 209 Fairmont Drive, Saskatoon or get a Zoom link when you register to join us online.
Email Alex Scott at Autism Services Saskatoon to register: alex.scott@autismservices.ca
211 is a free, confidential helpline available across Canada in 175 languages. When someone dials 2-1-1, they are connected with a 211 Navigator who can guide them to government programs, community services, and essential social supports.
Over the next three weekends I’m looking forward to learning more about art therapy and: neuroscience; grief, death, and loss; materials and techniques. Check out the impressive speakers who are presenting. And it’s free! https://www.artstherapies.org/course/world-art-therapy-conference-2025
Edgewood Health Network (EHN) Canada offers an eight-week treatment program for adults with mild to moderate drug and/or alcohol addictions, and it’s free if you have a Saskatchewan health card.
You can refer yourself or through a referral from private mental health and addiction health care providers, SHA mental health and addictions providers, physicians, and nurse practitioners.
The program is followed by 10 months of supportive aftercare and includes education and support for families, support persons, and loved ones of program participants.
Many young clients are told they have ADHD but not about how ADHD can impact their life beyond not paying attention and being hyper. Here’s a handout with information I gathered to explain how ADHD can effect the daily lives of children and youth, and how art therapy can help.
The College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario has accepted me as a qualifying registered psychotherapist. What does that mean since my office is in Saskatoon? I’m now able to deliver online art therapy to clients in Ontario including people with benefit plans that cover the cost of sessions delivered by qualifying RPs (and many plans do!).
Registration with a provincially legislated college protects clients by ensuring mental health supports are delivered by qualified and insured practitioners who must demonstrate ongoing professional development. Of the 10 Canadian provinces, five have a regulatory body for counsellors and therapists. The territories and Nunavut do not.
A Saskatchewan college has been in the works for many years thanks to the efforts of 10 member organizations. For more information visit Fact-SK https://www.fact-sk.org/
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Two days of presentations through the Children’s Grief Awareness Symposium provided concrete tools and relevant information, so glad I took part! Feeling fortunate to have more tools in my tool box to support grieving children and youth. Topics I attended were about the death of a sibling or parent, the complexities of children’s grief, grief experiences of Indigenous youth, how grief presents in very young children, grief in the 2SLGBTQ+ community, and understanding anticipatory grief.
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