Andrea Sutrick Art Therapy LLC

09/21/2025

The cure for your own reconnection & healing in troubled times....

As part of a visual journaling practice in nature, get outdoors, inhale some fresh air and pine, shimmy-wade on colored rocks in a creek and let the art process and poetry speak...

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“To Eternal Life, Pine Queen”

Splintered yellow, heavied crash
Bolted lightning came out of a flash
Floored all creatures, people around
Some froze
Some ran for covered ground
Jolted from her long-tapped roots
As her pine ancestors
Sap-sipped from her boots
Woodpecker heckled and fled up high
Gopher tortoises burrowed and lie
Beneath towering pine-barked trunks above
Her resin softened her resolve with love
As she pondered soils and sands below
Had become stripped and sifted
Til her scales of pinecones drifted
Plunging to the tea-stained Coldwater
Rejuvenating cold, clear creek wonder
Her rainbowed soul is evergreen
Now all her colors return
To eternal life, Pine Queen.

09/18/2025

If you've ever connected to the mystery and awe of art... learn more about the science behind art experiences. Viewing art, making art and experiencing art with others has healing benefits for brain health according to this research article by the American Psychological Association (APA)...

How to unleash the power of neuroaesthetics for health, well-being, and social change.

09/16/2025

Want to hear about the incredible art that rose from the ashes of the worst atrocity of the 20th century? There's a presentation that will be live-streamed on Instagram, Thursday September 18th 6:00pm Eastern/ 5:00pm Central about the art of the Holocaust for the Holocaust Education Resource Council (HERC) at the student union of Tallahassee State College.

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09/16/2025

Over 300 attendees at the EMDRIA Conference 2025 learned about enhancing EMDR with Body movement and Art. As an Art Therapist, I am SO grateful for learning these strategies to help my clients reorient to their bodies & reprocess trauma for holistic healing.

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09/14/2025

Sometimes I create art just for art’s sake. My favorite go-to in artmaking is found nature assemblage. On this day pictured below… the white bark of a sycamore had glittered the forest behind our camper in somewhere Indiana. I immediately foraged these materials in hope for a future creation for the Love ‘n Lights dinner.

However, I couldn’t resist putting the white bark to use, like uh, now. So, I scattered the bark before me and felt that a white peacock (also known as peafowl) needed to emerge. Sometime later, the peacock came to life. And just as life emerged, life was taken away as an impending storm stirred up winds that pushed and pulled the creation as it lay there on the ground.

I took a picture and it’s all I have left to recall this block of time, a moment of a flow experience. A slice of an afternoon where I made something simply for the sake of making.

My friends, with the heaviness of this week, these questions beckon me…

How can I make art when so much suffering is happening?
How can I trust in the hope of creativity?

That’s when my white peacock came forth to speak...

My Dear White Peacock, He speaks:

“While I am beloved by all
My grandeur so tall
Lauded for my outer beauty
And coveted for my rare purity
Valued $ 30 times more than my blue brother
Even as this plumage hurts one after another.

‘Cause on the surface all is dainty
Heads nodding before me vainly
As if delivered in a perfect bow
What if my tail can’t fan for their show?

‘Cause on my head a splay of crest
Feathers perfectly attuned to subtleties of zest
Behind these dark eyes I am seeing the truth
What if my caws aren’t heard at the polling booth?

‘Cause behind this graceful gait
Is picking up on the hate
Standing on my toes
What do I do when they come for my clothes?

‘Cause I need to scurry close-grounded
Even with my heart confounded
They trick-handed me something to eat
What if I choke on all this conceit?”

‘Cause I’m moved to train rattle my tail
Signaling to others this grand betrayal
For no one bird can be left behind
It’s time to find your tribe and in kindness align.”

09/08/2025

Here's a sneak preview of the EMDRIA Conference 2025 (Session 648) Enhancing EMDR: Integrating Body Movement and Art for Trauma Reprocessing.

I'm thrilled to contribute to this body of work with fellow Art Therapists! I enjoy guiding people with art. Since we often get stuck in our heads, Art + Body Movements helps us shift out of our heads to gain balance in body, mind and spirit.

The EMDRIA Conference 2025 will be held September 12-14, 2025, in person at the Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, California.

Register for the EMDRIA Conference 2025 at https://emdriaconference.com. Session 648: Enhancing EMDR: Integrating Body Movement and Art for Trauma Reprocessi...

09/07/2025

When was the last time, you spent a few minutes reflecting on something you’re looking forward to?

Something small or big?

Insert now: Expression through the creative arts… art, writing, dance and more.

Take time and help your inner helper. Enjoy my expression of this process as a poem and image.

“Are All Seen”

Dawn breaking with warming skies
A spectacular show lights and spreads with eyes
Finding crevices, ripples on water to land
Shimmering back in a dance of no end
Revealing a space that cannot be!

Beaches and mountains, so freely
Don’t happen upon Florida, no really
Creeks cannot with mountains chance
A reflection of beauty & confluence
Of snowy glaciers and salt breezes
Rocky peaks and tidal eases
Long-leaf pines barking with evergreens darkening
Tea-stained creeks so fresh
Briny, bubbling gulf waters don’t mesh.

Dawn reflects a future with surprise
Your home and life can be mesmerized
When life comes together
There’s no happenstance
All it asks is for you to take a chance
Reflect and view in spaces between
Where mountains, creeks, beaches are all seen.

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08/18/2025

Thrilled to support my team presenters for the EMDRIA 2025! 🌟
Contributing to the work of the arts-informed approach to EMDR has been inspiring to me and most important, healing for clients 🎨🧠
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🌟 We’re ready for EMDRIA 2025! 🌟

Our team is thrilled to be the final presenters at this year’s conference, where we’ll be sharing our arts-informed approach to EMDR. 🎨🧠

It’s been an inspiring journey preparing for this moment, and we can’t wait to connect with colleagues, exchange ideas, and spark new ways of thinking about healing and creativity.

See you there! ✨

08/02/2025

Excited to see the arts helping those incarcerated in our community.

07/16/2025

How do you get out of your 🤔 ? I create outdoors, touching nature and arranging… just because nature heals. I then reflect by letting the image speak thru poetry. How do get inspired in nature?

“She speaks in the Pauses…”

From zero gravity, bare feet fell
Flattened to ground with grass to foretell
A choice to follow the noun of thought
Away from the perils of thinking fraught
With fears of the unknown
As white tumbled rock has shown
A challenge from this blank canvas
Stark from the suffering weight hands us here
To marvel and stroll open-minded near
Present with rocky shores now demand us
Towards nothing at all and something so small
Courageous hearts welcome the call
Seaweed strands glittered with broken shells
Smooth wood drifted among wafting wells
She emerges mindfully as though
Her existence pointing from years ago
A whisper of thought planted that seed
Of possibility and hope for truly indeed
She speaks in pauses between the laps
Of tidal waves breaking, exhaling perhaps
Dreams come to thoughts held in space
With settled mind and rested pace.

06/28/2025

Happy to support PensaPride with my tribe today… and a little artmaking too!

06/26/2025

A great read about Art Therapy. As an Art Therapist, I am amazed by the mystery of this process that seems to defy simply talking our way through... but rather moving with action through pain to healing.

So many good points...
~You don't have to be good at art to benefit. It's not about the product but the process.
~The process is collaborative and responsive.
~Art therapy can help ALL ages, young and adult since you're tapping into your creativity. A skill we all possess in crafting our everyday lives.

An interview with art therapist Marina Doering.