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InTouch & Motion

InTouch & Motion is a multilingual psychotherapy and creative arts therapies practice in Chicago IL.

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07/22/2025

If traditional yoga spaces have never felt quite right for you… this one’s different.

We’re offering FREE tickets to the upcoming Yoga Beyond Poses workshop, designed with intention for those who need space to move, reflect, and reconnect without pressure, without pretense.

Saturday, July 26 at 10 AM – 11:15AM

These are small, affirming workshops that blend gentle movement with journaling, reflection, and creativity.

📍InTouch & Motion, 4028 W Irving Park Rd, Loft B, Chicago
🎟 Register on Eventbrite -link in bio!

(DISCOUNT APPLIES AUTOMATICALLY AT CHECKOUT)

If this sounds like something you’ve needed, we’d love to see you.

07/20/2025

We talk a lot about grief, pain, and holding hard things.

But healing isn’t only about what we’ve been through.

It’s also about what we’re moving toward.

Creative expression can be a way to hold hope when words aren’t enough, when your future feels blurry, when it’s too soon to celebrate but too late to stay where you are.

It’s a color that calms you, a song that lifts you, a movement that reminds you that something new is possible.

You don’t have to have it all figured out to make space for what could be.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:

4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641

Main Office: 773-850-9046

www.intouchandmotion.com/contact

07/19/2025

Some of us learned early how to stay calm, composed, and quiet.

How to keep things light.

How to take care of others first.

How to never let it all show.

But healing asks for more than composure.

It invites us to feel—not just think.

In expressive arts and creative arts therapies, we hold space for the bigness of what’s inside.

And if that feels unfamiliar, you’re not broken. You’ve been surviving.

In expressive arts and creative arts therapies, we hold space for the bigness of what’s inside.

Not by forcing it out but by giving it room to move, one breath, brushstroke, or stretch at a time.

You don’t need to be good at this.

You just have to be willing to be real.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:

4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641

Main Office: 773-850-9046

[www.intouchandmotion.com/contact](http://www.intouchandmotion.com/contact)

07/16/2025

When your work is to care for others… who holds space for you?

The tension in your shoulders that never quite leaves.

The silence you keep after witnessing someone else’s pain.

The quiet ache of feeling useful but rarely feeling seen.

At some point, even the most grounded therapist, educator, or healer needs a space to come back to themselves.

That’s what Authentic Movement for Helping Professionals offers:

A free monthly gathering where you can move without performance, breathe without explaining, and let your body speak, just for you.

Whether Authentic Movement is part of your practice or something you’ve never tried before, you’re welcome here.

Link in bio to book/RSVP.

📅 Next gathering: August 9
📍 InTouch & Motion
✉️ RSVP by emailing kiaran@intouchandmotion.com

07/15/2025

We hear this often in therapy:

“I know I should be grateful.”

“I have no reason to feel sad.”

“Nothing bad is happening, so why do I feel so heavy?”

Sometimes the hardest feelings to name are the quietest ones.

Creative arts therapies gives you a place to bring the things that feel small but still sit heavy in the body.

That nagging sense of disconnection.

That ache you can’t justify.

Creative arts therapies provide a space to bring the things that feel small but still weigh heavily in the body.

Through art, sound, movement, or image, we begin to reconnect with the parts of you that still remember how to feel.

Even when joy feels distant.

You don’t have to “earn” your way into therapy.

You have to be curious about what’s underneath the quiet.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:

4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641

Main Office: 773-850-9046

www.intouchandmotion.com/contact

07/10/2025

A deep breath.

A stretch that softens your chest.

A color that reminds you of being safe.

Nervous system regulation isn’t always about controlling how you feel.

It’s about creating space to feel it with more ease.

At InTouch & Motion, we’ve seen how art, movement, and sensory grounding can gently guide you back to yourself when the world feels too loud.

Some days regulation looks like stillness.

Other days, it looks like paint on your fingers or sound in your throat.

It’s not about getting it right. It’s about remembering that you can come home to yourself, again and again.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:
4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641
Main Office: 773-850-9046

07/03/2025

Sometimes we hear clients say things like, “I haven’t picked up a paintbrush since childhood… but this? This felt like I could finally breathe.”

That’s the beauty of art therapy.

You don’t have to identify as an artist.

You don’t have to know what to say.

You don’t even have to feel “ready.”

Healing through creativity doesn’t ask for perfection.

It offers you tools to process what words can’t always hold through movement, color, image, rhythm, or breath.

We’re not here to turn you into an artist.

We’re here to help you return to yourself.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:

4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641

Main Office: 773-850-9046

[www.intouchandmotion.com/contact](http://www.intouchandmotion.com/contact)

06/26/2025

You’ve been told that rest looks like stillness. That it means doing nothing. That you have to earn it.

But what if rest looked like play?

Like painting with no purpose.

At InTouch & Motion, we invite you to redefine rest through creative expression. Whether it’s movement, art, journaling, or just catching your breath, you get to decide what feels restorative to you.

For some of us, stillness feels uncomfortable—especially when we’ve had to keep moving to survive. Rest doesn’t always feel safe at first. It might feel awkward. Unproductive. Even guilty.

But here’s what I know: when you begin to reclaim rest on your terms, everything shifts.

At InTouch & Motion, we invite you to redefine rest through creative expression.

W hether it’s movement, art, journaling, or just catching your breath, you get to decide what feels restorative to you.

Not what looks good. Not what others expect. What feels like coming home to yourself.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:
4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641
Main Office: 773-850-9046 | Direct Line: 773-850-0712
http://www.intouchandmotion.com/contact

06/23/2025

If you’ve never done creative arts therapy before, you might be wondering:

Do I have to dance?
Will someone interpret my drawings?
What if I’m not creative?

You don’t have to show up with a plan or know exactly what to say.
Your first session is about arriving as you are.
No pressure to be polished, articulate, or even ready.

Just be willing.

Sometimes you may come in ready and eager to share, and other times not.

If it feels right, we’ll gently explore.

Sometimes that looks like painting with your hands, not brushes.

Sometimes it’s stretching your arms and letting movement meet your breath.

Sometimes it’s music.
Sometimes silence.

We might talk a lot, a little, or not much at all.

Creative arts therapy isn’t a performance.

It’s a process—a way to find your own language for what’s been held inside.

It helps you hear yourself differently. Feel yourself differently. Heal differently.

So if you’re worried about getting it “right,” I promise you this:

You already belong here.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:
4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641
Main Office: 773-850-9046 | Direct Line: 773-850-0712
http://www.intouchandmotion.com/contact

06/18/2025

There’s a kind of exhaustion that doesn’t show up on your calendar.

It hides in the way you brace yourself for the day, shoulders quietly inching toward your ears.

It lingers in your breath, short, shallow, without you realizing you’ve barely exhaled all morning.

It waits in your jaw, your chest, your gut. And then one day, you pause long enough to feel it.

That’s when it hits you: your body has been speaking. You just haven’t had time to listen.

At InTouch & Motion, we help people reconnect with the part of them that’s been talking all along.

We don’t start with the perfect words. We start with presence.

What does your body know that your mind has been trying to keep quiet?

What happens when you draw it, move with it, breathe into it?

Creative arts therapy gives you a space to hear your own signals, gently and without judgment.

If your body could speak freely right now, what would it say?

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:
4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641
Main Office: 773-850-9046 |
http://www.intouchandmotion.com/contact

06/17/2025

Grief isn’t always obvious.

It doesn't always show up as crying or deep sadness. Sometimes, it arrives as forgetfulness. Or irritability. Or that feeling of heaviness that lingers, even when things seem “fine.”

Grief can come from a death. But it can also come from a change you didn’t choose. A relationship that ended before you were ready. A version of yourself you’re letting go of.

At InTouch & Motion, we honor grief in all its forms. With space. With movement. With silence. With art.

Sometimes, painting through the ache feels more honest than speaking it. Sometimes your body knows what you’re grieving before your mind catches up.

There’s no right timeline for healing. There’s just where you are. And that’s enough.

Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:
4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641
Main Office: 773-850-9046 | Direct Line: 773-850-0712
http://www.intouchandmotion.com/contact

06/10/2025

It’s one thing to say, “You’re welcome here.”

It’s another to sit with someone who doesn’t flinch at your grief, who doesn’t question your choices through a lens that was never built for you.

If you’ve ever walked into a room and felt the need to explain who you are before you could be helped, you know how exhausting that is.

Culturally responsive care is slowing down enough to listen for what’s not being said. It’s knowing that your body, your silence, your art, your laughter.

All of it holds cultural meaning.

We don’t ask you to leave any of that at the door.

At InTouch & Motion, we use creative practices like movement, visual art, and storytelling to make space for your lived experience.

Not in spite of your identity, but with it at the center.

We’ve sat with clients navigating faith, language loss, gender identity, immigration, family roles, racism, and the ache of being misunderstood.

And what we’ve learned is this: people don’t just want to be accepted. They want to be understood.

You deserve to be witnessed in your full complexity. Without translation. Without shrinking.

📌 Reach us for in-office (appointment only) or virtual support:
4028 W Irving Park Rd. Loft B, Chicago, IL 60641
Main Office: 773-850-9046
http://www.intouchandmotion.com/contact

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Chicago, IL

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 10pm
Tuesday	8am - 10pm
Wednesday	8am - 10pm
Thursday	8am - 10pm
Friday	8am - 10pm
Saturday	8am - 10pm
Sunday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+17738509046

Website

http://intouchandmotion.com/

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Creative Therapies and Healing Arts

At InTouch & Motion, we strive to create an open, creative, healing environment for you to explore, grow, and tap into your greatest Self! We work in collaboration with our clients to establish a plan that holistically integrates mind-body-spirit approaches. Growth and healing does not come in one form, and many times different parts of ourselves need nurturing and support.

Although we are all trained in traditional counseling and talk therapy, we are a team of healers that offer you so much more! Our range of services - dance/movement therapy, music therapy, art therapy, psychotherapy, heart centered hypnotherapy, past life regressions, energetic healing, and intuitive wellness - aim to help you find the right balance of support and opportunities to meet your needs. Contact us for more details about one or more of our services.