Emily Natale(She/Her/Hers)

Emily (she/her) is a creative art therapist who uses a holistic and intersectional framework. She believes in the power of creativity as an innate source of wisdom for healing. By incorporating the arts, somatic techniques, breathing techniques and neuroscience, her clients are able to experience more enjoyment with their life and greater self-trust.

She supports adults with expanding their capacity to identify, experience, and process emotions. She holds the sacred time and space, while facilitating the natural process of coherence, integration and wholeness. Using empathetic attunement, Emily uses a depth-oriented modality that aims to help people identify and alter the unconscious beliefs that contribute to their symptoms and challenges. She supports her clients with transformational and meaningful change.

When working with kids, she employs as child-centered play therapy approach. She attunes to the child and facilitates therapy through play and art, their own naturally language. Kids often enjoy coming to therapy where they can have a supported, contained and a private, encouraging space to process their feelings and life experiences. Emily meets with parents separately to support them with the complexities of being a parent.

Emily was professionally trained at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA for undergraduate (2007) & graduate degrees in Mental Health Counseling & Expressive Art Therapies (2011). She has worked with culturally and diagnostically diverse children and adults, many of whom have experienced the impacts of psychological trauma, depression, and anxiety. She studied at the Art Institute of Boston and Lorenzo di Medici in Florence, Italy, and continues learning new artistic mediums. She enjoys learning and her ongoing education involves; yoga for mental health, neuroscience, meditation and visualization for peak performance and everyday living, immigrant experiences, and the brain-body connection. She is registered as an art therapist with the American Art Therapy Association.