Mindful Scribbles:
a professional art therapy practice
Using creative expression to build new coping mechanisms for those dealing with anxiety.
Welcome to Mindful Scribbles
Let me first acknowledge how much of a step you have already taken just by coming to this website and checking things out. Asking for help and admitting to ourselves that we need help can be incredibly difficult.
Who I am
My name is Alexandra Baker, but everyone calls me Ali. I am a Professional Art Therapist who works with people of all ages and backgrounds.
My focus is to help people who are struggling with anxiety, who are looking for new tools to add to their mental health toolbox.
Mindful Scribbles offers one-on-one online sessions across Canada and virtual expressive arts workshops around the world.
Art Therapy
Art Therapy uses the act of art making as a non-verbal form of communication for people to explore their inner-selves and express their emotions. Art Therapy can vary in its definitions but it is a therapeutic form that involves the creative process of self-expression through art materials like paint, clay, coloured pencils, pastels and much more. The creative process of making art may improve a person's physical, mental and emotional well-being.
Who You Are
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-You have gone to your family doctor or appropriate medical practitioner to seek medical advice and treatment.
-You have gone through a clinical therapeutic journey to seek guidance/ treatment of your anxiety and have done clinical therapeutic work (whether that be medication and/or work with psychologist/psychiatrist).
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-Ideally as a client you are are looking to add to skills you have been given through a current or previous clinical therapeutic journey and are looking to expand your self awareness and connect and embrace the messy side of being a perfectly imperfect human.
-You would like to learn more or build skills around self care and self growth/reflection
-My practice of Art Therapy is NOT used as a treatment or substitute for treatment of a Mental illness and I am NOT a Psychotherapist. My practice can be used as a support to other therapeutic work a client is receiving or has received.
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-This does not mean you have to be good at art or be an artist. However, you need to feel ready and comfortable with taking on the reflective and creative journey of Art Therapy and being guided into embracing what it is to be a perfectly imperfect human through artistic means.
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I am someone who struggles with Generalized Anxiety, so I am constantly adding, adjusting or taking away coping mechanisms
As humans we grow and change everyday, and as we do our coping mechanisms may need to change or be tweaked so we may need to acquire some new skills.
As a Professional Art Therapist I can guide you through Expressive Art and mindful activities that can added to an already existing tool box of skills learned through your previous therapeutic journey that can aid in moments of anxiety, life transitions, stress and burnout.
