expressive arts coaching

unlock your creative potential

Do you feel a pull to do something different but you are not sure what it is? Do you have a dream you let lay dormant for a long while? Have you felt fear, stuck, stagnant, or unsure how to move forward with something meaningful? Maybe you’ve started a creative project but did not yet finish it, or you’re searching for clarity about your next steps. Expressive Arts Coaching offers a way to connect with your inner resources to create new possibility, move towards and manifest your desired goal.

Through thought-provoking questions, unconditional positive regard, and simple art-making, returning to our original ways of drawing, journaling, coloring — no artistic skill required. I create a safe and supportive space for your unique answers to surface. I reflect back to you as a benevolent mirror. You are the expert on your life. My role is to be your collaborator, thinking partner, and supporter, cheerleader as you clarify your goals and take the steps to achieve them.

what is expressive arts coaching?

According to the International Coaching Federation (ICF), coaching is a thought-provoking, creative partnership that inspires clients to maximize their personal and professional potential. Unlike therapy, which often focuses on healing the past, or mentoring, which provides expert advice, coaching is present- and future-oriented. It helps you clarify what you want, break it into actionable steps, and stay accountable—while honoring that you already hold the answers within yourself.

I work with the Flow Method, developed by Talyaa Varder at The Flow Coaching Institute in Canada. This elegant five-step model draws on best coaching practices and the flow psychology of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who studied artists, athletes, and high achievers in states of peak performance. The Flow Method guides us through:

1. Awareness – clarifying what you want to achieve

2. Motivation – exploring why your goal matters deeply to you

3. Action – creating your unique steps forward

4. Arrival – defining how you’ll know you’ve succeeded

5. Focus – sustaining momentum with presence and joy

Sessions may include a combination of expressive arts techniques (drawing, writing, improvisation), a short meditation, simple drama therapy exercises, and Eckhart Tolle’s principles of conscious manifestation. At the heart of it all is deep, present listening — and creating silences with spaciousness when needed — so you can hear yourself and your own insights can emerge.

testimonials

  • “I’ve worked with Elizabeth for some time now, and she’s been incredibly helpful in giving me clarity around my life purpose, especially when it comes to my career and financial goals. I always felt heard. She made me feel comfortable, and most of all, she gave me the perspective I had been missing. Each session was unique, and I always left learning something new about myself. Even to this day, I still use the practices she taught me.”

    - Aquiles C. - boxer, personal fitness trainer

  • “Through expressive arts coaching with Elizabeth I was able to resurrect an old art project idea that had been sitting dormant with me for many years. She helped me breathe life back into my creative practice that has brought a joy back into my life. Her support, deep listening and reflecting has made me hear a part of myself that I had abandoned. I am profoundly grateful to her for aiding me in retrieving my creativity.”

    - Lisa F.

  • "I highly recommend Elizabeth as a Flow Expressive Arts Coach. Her unique approach, blending drama, arts, and creativity, truly sets her apart. She has a remarkable ability to help others tap into their full potential, guiding them through both self-discovery and personal growth in a way that feels both inspiring and deeply empowering. Elizabeth’s coaching style is warm and intuitive, creating a safe space for individuals to explore new perspectives, unlock their creativity, and build confidence. Whether you’re looking to overcome personal challenges, enhance your skills, or simply grow in your potential, Elizabeth is an exceptional guide on that journey."

    - Talyaa Vardar, Founder, Flow Coaching Institute

  • Elizabeth is someone I have come to trust 100%. She is an unusually real person who I feel safe with and who has always made herself available for me when I needed her. At first, I just wanted to talk about what was going on in my life and her way of reflecting helped me hear and understand myself in a new way. Slowly a very important life goal became clear to me through her listening, gentle questioning and simple drawing exercises. As a lifelong tailor drawing is something I have always done but always for others, never for my own designs or to draw my wishes. It was very enjoyable and opened something in my creativity which has always been in service of others. I have felt completely supported by her in a way no one has supported me before, and at times she pushes me, which I need to follow through on the action steps to my dreams. I appreciate her with all my heart.

    - Ricky S.

my philosophy and approach

I believe our soul essence — our inner awareness, our consciousness, presence, a beautiful, alive, stillness within — is always accessible beneath the busy mind. When we purposefully return to our breath, our inner body, we reconnect with that essence. From there, a fresh clarity, and inspired action arise naturally.

My work is shaped by my background as a an actress where I learned to ask myself questions about the character being worked on with no judgement. When I did not judge, I was able to understand the life and actions of that human being. As a registered drama therapist with an emphasis in narrative (how we story our lives), my lifelong meditation journey, and my study of The Work of Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle and Krishnamurti. Questioning has always been central for me: whether in acting, coaching an actor, in meditation, or self-inquiry, asking the right questions opens new doors of understanding. Coaching draws on that same practice of inquiry, helping you uncover your own fresh answers in the moment.

I know deeply both the pain of stagnation and the joy of breaking through. Again and again, I’ve surprised myself many times by accomplishing new goals and rescuing old ones that held unique and great personal meaning for me that aligned with my deepest values and opened new paths forward. I would be honored to support you in doing the same.

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