East Bay Art Therapy, 55 Santa Clara Avenue Suite 220, Oakland, CA (2026)

02/26/2026

Perfectionism keeping you stuck? 🫤

Make. It. Easy.

👉 Try this instead to combat your perfectionism tendencies!

𝟰 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗼 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺:

1. Explore clay with your eyes closed.
Let your hands move without a plan. Open your eyes and keep the form exactly as it is.

2. Draw with your non-dominant hand.
Abstract, nature, portrait. Let it feel awkward. Build tolerance for imperfection.

3. Make an unfinished art piece.
Create… and intentionally stop before it feels complete. Display it as a reminder that unfinished is still worthy.

4. Make an intentional mistake.
Add a “wrong” mark, wrinkle the paper, spill water. Then incorporate it into the art.

Perfectionism softens through practice, building tolerance & resilience, not pressure. 🌈

🔖 Save this for the next time you feel stuck.

➡️ Follow East Bay Art Therapy for Creative Resources, Art Therapy Awareness, & Services.

02/24/2026

High school can feel overwhelming. 🫤

The pressure, identity shifts, friend drama & late night overthinking can be too much!

Trying to figure out who you are while everything keeps changing can be a lot to handle!

We’re here so you don’t have to do it alone.

🎨 Join a creative art therapy group where you get to:

• Express what you’re really feeling
• Make art without needing to be “good” at it
• Talk about real life stuff in a safe space
• Build coping tools that actually work
• Explore identity, gender, sexuality, and self-worth
• Feel supported by people who get it

🖌️ This group is for girls, genderqueer, nonbinary, and trans teens ages 14 to 18 who are in High School.

We combine art making, journaling, and talk therapy to help manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the emotional ups and downs of navigating life.

Closed 10-week group
Sundays 5:30 to 7:00 pm
In person in Oakland at East Bay Art Therapy’s Office
Limited to 8 participants

We start on March 15th

👉 Sign up by going to our website:
www.eastbayarttherapy.com/groups

Link in Bio. Spots are limited.

02/19/2026

You hold space for others every day.
But where do you process what you hold?

Art Making for Clinician Self-Care and Processing Clinical Work with Clients is designed specifically for mental health professionals who want practical, experiential tools to manage burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma.

🎨 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂:
• Process countertransference
• Explore your professional identity
• Clarify where your own experiences may be influencing your clinical lens
• Develop sustainable self-care practices
• Strengthen your emotional resilience as a clinician

🖌️ 𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀-𝗼𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹:
• Understand the difference between Art Therapy and Therapeutic Art Making
• Learn the differences between burnout, compassion stress, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma
• Identify which art materials best support different emotional states
• Experience 1 guided art process for working through a challenging client relationship
• Learn 3 art-based practices you can use independently for self-c𝘢re & clinical processing

Facilitated by Tonia Herrero, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, ATCS

💢 This training is open to professionals doing direct clinical work, including LMFTs, AMFTs, LPCCs, APCCs, LCSWs, ACSWs, psychologists, school counselors, psychiatrists, PMHNPs, and current practicum students.

Friday, May 29, 2026
10am–2pm
Virtual via Zoom

👉 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗯𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆.𝗰𝗼𝗺/𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴
𝗢r 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮@𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗯𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆.𝗰𝗼𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.

🖼️ Art is from Tonia's Last Workshop Therapuetic Art Inventions with Non-Art Therapists

02/17/2026

Art has always been a tool for resistance, connection, and healing. 🎨

When the world feels overwhelming, confusing, or unjust, creative expression can help us process, organize, and take meaningful action.

✊
You can gather in community.
You can make public art.
You can design protest posters.
You can create digital work that amplifies truth.
You can also turn inward and create just for yourself.
Both matter.

Activism without reflection burns us out. Reflection without action keeps us stuck.

🫶 Art therapy offers space for both. A place to process what you are carrying and move toward aligned, sustainable change.

If you are ready to explore your voice, process what you are holding, and create from a grounded place, we are here.

👉 Explore our services and participate in art therapy with a professional art therapist. Link in Bio

www.eastbayarttherapy.com

02/12/2026

Did you know we have a new therapy office in San Jose, CA?

Our San Jose office offers a private waiting room stocked with coffee, tea, snacks, and fidgets so you can arrive and settle in with ease. 🖼️

Inside our therapy rooms, you’ll find quality art materials and a cozy space to sit and talk, with calming views of trees through large windows.

🎨 Our San Jose-based Art Therapist, Rebecca Valdiva, will be accepting new clients ages 4+ and offers Family Therapy.

Sessions will be available in-person or virtual.

Availability: Tuesday, Wednesday, & Saturday

Rebecca’s specialties include:
• BIPOC & multicultural individuals
• LGBTQIA+ community
• Adoptees & former foster youth
• Trauma-informed care
• Neurodivergent individuals
• Intellectual disabilities
• Life transitions

The Therapy office is conveniently located near major freeways, public transit, and close to downtown, San Jose, CA 95112

📥 Schedule a free therapist matching call to get started with Art Therapy Services

eastbayarttherapy.com

02/10/2026

🎨 Middle School Art Therapy Group (ages 11–14) at EBAT in our Oakland, Ca office.

🖌️ For girls, genderqueer, non-binary, and trans youth.

This art therapy support group integrates art making, journaling, and talk therapy.

During this group, support for anxiety, depression, neurodivergence & life transitions will be explored.

Students will gain support with emotional expression, increasing coping skills, self-esteem, identity awareness, and managing stress.

Sundays 3:00–4:30pm, 10-week closed group, max 8 in group

Now enrolling, next series starts March 15th!

🤩 To sign up, send us a message at www.eastbayarttherapy.com/groups

02/05/2026

👋 Tonia here! I love connecting with local community site coordinators in the East Bay, CA!

Recently, at the Bay Area Community Resources Vendor Fair, I connect with after school program site coordinators at K-12 schools around the east bay.

Here at the fair site, coordinators got to discuss possibilities of bringing art therapy services to their students for their enrichment.

It was a pleasure spreading awareness about Art Therapy and the powerful benefits to our community and students well-being.

I am hopeful for expanded community partnerships throughout Alameda and Contra Costa county public schools!

Reach out if you are interested in learning more, I'd love to connect!

Tonia Herrero
MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, ATCS (she/her)
Practice Owner / Founder
Licensed & Board-Certified Art Therapist & Certified Supervisor

www.eastbayarttherapy.com

02/03/2026

🚨We are hiring a creative, passionate Art Therapist
to join our hospital-based team in San Mateo, CA!

We’re looking for someone who:

🎨 loves facilitating art therapy groups
🥰 feels confident working with adolescents & adults
🌈 is anti-racist, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and culturally responsive
values collaboration, structure, and heart-led clinical work

🖌️ Role highlights:
• Inpatient acute psychiatric setting
• Group art therapy (curriculum + facilitation)
• Strong team support, supervision, and materials provided

Join our creative arts hospital team of art, drama, and music therapists, where creativity, care, and clinical integrity come together. 👥👥

📥 Send resume + cover letter to Tonia@eastbayarttherapy.com

(Please highlight experience/interest working with adolescents and inpatient settings.)

➡️ Check out the full job posting listing on our website. eastbayarttherapy.com/careers

01/29/2026

We had so much fun at the Provider Fair at Spirited Play Labs in Berkeley recently!

Families with young neurodivergent children came to learn about services and resources for their children, while kids played with a variety of neuro-affirming toys in SPL's interactive playroom.

East Bay Art Therapy is a vendor of the Regional Center of the East Bay and we are in process for becoming vendors of the San Andreas Regional Center. (We can do courtesy vendorization with any CA Regional Center.)

Speak to your Regional Center case manager today!

Spirited Play Labs

01/27/2026

What are you releasing from last year? And what are you intentionally calling in for the year ahead?

Make a Vision Board with us! 🖼
️
In the art therapy world, we don’t rush past this question.

We slow it down & make it visible.

This collage process invites reflection, choice, & meaning making. Letting go of patterns, roles, or narratives that no longer serve. Naming what deserves space, energy, & care moving forward.

✂️ If you’d like to try this process yourself, here’s how:

Start by looking through magazines with curiosity. Notice what draws your attention. An image, a word, a color, a feeling. There’s no right or wrong here.

Tear or cut out what calls to you. Begin arranging the pieces in any way that feels natural. Let your intuition guide the layout before gluing anything down. You can keep it simple or build it out with mixed media. Markers, paint, scrapbooking elements, texture, or line work.

In this collage, the lines emerging from the lower bottom dark opening represent the past. What was lived, learned, and the insight being carried forward.

The woman in the image is on a path, moving toward a set of stairs. Along the way, her dreams, goals, and desired aesthetic/vibes surround her.

Art therapy is a powerful way to understand your inner world, process what’s been carried, and consciously shape what comes next.

If you’re ready to explore art therapy with clinical support, our art therapy services offer a grounded, intentional space to do just that.

🔖 Save this post & learn more about our individual therapy, groups, and professional offerings via the link in bio.

eastbayarttherapy.com

01/22/2026

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” -Henry Ward Beecher

Henry, a prominent 19th-century American minister, public speaker, & social reformer believed that creative expression inevitably reflects one’s inner world.

What we create carries our emotional experience, personal history, and internal landscape, whether consciously or unconsciously. 🖼️

🖌️ This understanding is foundational to art therapy.

Art therapy offers a structured, evidence-informed approach to exploring thoughts, emotions, & lived experiences through the creative process.

The artwork becomes a therapeutic tool for insight, regulation, expression, & integration, supporting emotional well-being across the lifespan. 🎨

At East Bay Art Therapy, we provide
🖌️ Individual & group art therapy for children, teens, adults, couples, & families.
🖌️ Workplace wellness and educational workshops for helping professionals and organizations
🖌️ Trauma-informed, culturally responsive care in both in-person and virtual settings

Our services are designed to support healing, resilience, & meaningful connection.

👉 Visit our website to explore our resources & find the support that aligns with your needs.

eastbayarttherapy.com

01/20/2026

📱Instead of scrolling your time away.... Come Create with us!

Now enrolling.....Young Adult Art Therapy Group (Ages 18–26)

👉 This group is designed for young adults navigating the powerful and often overwhelming transition into adulthood. It offers a supportive, creative space to explore emotions, identity, relationships, and the pressures of work, school, and daily life.

Through guided art making, journaling, and group discussion, participants build practical coping skills while strengthening self awareness, confidence, and emotional expression. 🎨

The group supports young adults who may be experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, or feelings of disconnection, including those who identify as neurodivergent.

🖌️ This is a closed group, meaning the same participants meet each week to build trust, consistency, and meaningful connections over time. No drop-ins. Just a steady, supportive container where growth can happen at a natural pace.

Facilitated by Aurora Daigle, MPS, ATR-P (she/her), this group balances structure with creativity, clinical skill with warmth, and guidance with respect for each individual’s voice.

Whether your young adult is seeking support, connection, or a creative way to process life’s changes, this group offers a grounded place to land and grow.

Learn more by checking out our website (https://eastbayarttherapy.com/groups).

📥 Sign up by sending us a message!

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