The Expressive Way
Healing Through Creativity, Community & Care
Explore What We Offer
Connect in a space designed for shared growth, creative exploration, and deep care. We offer expressive arts-based group therapy and workshops that honor your lived experience and spark resilience. Ideal for postpartum parents, helping professionals, and those seeking embodied community healing.
We provide affirming and trauma-informed therapy for individuals, couples, and families navigating identity, parenting, creative blocks, and life transitions. Sessions draw from expressive arts, somatic practices, and relational models to foster clarity, connection, and growth.
We support therapists, coaches, and creatives integrating expressive arts into their practice. Whether you're working toward REAT/RDT credentials or just beginning to explore the field, we offer collaborative guidance grounded in real-world experience and creative wisdom.
Upcoming Group
FREE INFO SESSIONS: 12/5/25 & 1/9/26
This experiential 45-hour training group will offer both a first-hand experience of the healing power of the arts as well as a foundational understanding of the theory and practice of expressive arts therapy. The expressive arts are innately healing. Modern research is now able to give scientific explanations to ancient healing practices that humans have used for thousands of years. Anyone who has worked with the creative arts knows that they can be used for profound transformation and growth.
In this 15-week training, you will:
Experience the healing power of intermodal arts firsthand
Build a versatile toolkit of creative interventions
Explore EXA history, theory, and contemporary practice
Learn to apply arts-based methods in assessment, treatment, and closure
Strengthen trauma-informed, culturally responsive facilitation skills
Rekindle your creativity and clarify your professional identity
This training is for psychologists, therapists, social workers, counselors, life coaches, healers, activists, teaching artists, group facilitators, and other mental health professionals.
36 Continuing Education Credits Available
Get course credit towards becoming a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT)
Who We Are
We’re a growing collective of therapists and facilitators who believe that healing is creative, relational, and deeply personal. Rooted in the expressive arts, our team brings together diverse backgrounds in mental health, embodiment, and community care. Founded by Expressive Arts & Drama Therapists Teresa Trout and Paul Chaus, The Expressive Way knows that transformation isn’t always graceful. Whether you’re growing, unraveling, or rebuilding, we’re here to walk, explore, and create with you.
Contact Us
Have questions or want to connect? Reach out through our contact form and we’ll be in touch shortly. Whether you’re seeking therapy, interested in a group, or exploring collaboration, we’re here to help.