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
A 6-week expressive arts group supporting the emotional, relational, and identity shifts of early parenthood. Designed to hold the full spectrum of postpartum experience—from grief and rage to joy and awe—in a space that welcomes your whole self. This group integrates somatic grounding, creative exploration (no art experience needed!), and facilitated community connection.
Sundays September 28th - November 2nd
10am - 11:30am
6 weekly sessions (90 minutes each)
Hybrid format: 1st + last session in-person, 4 virtual
$180 total
Sliding scale spots available
Queer & trans-affirming
Clients referred by Heart Tones Birth Services receive a discounted rate
Who We Are
We’re a collaborative therapeutic team rooted in the belief that healing is creative, relational, and deeply personal. Founded by Expressive Arts & Drama Therapists, Teresa Trout and Paul Chaus, our practice brings together decades of experience in mental health, arts-based healing, and group facilitation. We create space for meaningful transformation — whether you're becoming a parent, rediscovering yourself, or learning to hold others with more care.
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.