The Artful Life

Meet The Therapist: Danielle Jacobs, MA Danielle Jacobs, MA, is an Expressive Arts Therapist, Mental Health Counselor and 200-RYT Certified Yoga Instructor. She has been a yoga instructor for thirteen years and received a Master’s degree in Counseling with an Emphasis in Expressive Arts from William James College. Danielle has found yoga, mindfulness, journaling and art to be extremely healing forms of expression. Sharing her skills and guiding others into a safe space to explore, heal and grow is her intention. Danielle works with people of all ages and is especially passionate about working with young children, teens and college aged clients. Her approach is person-centered implementing verbal therapy, CBT, mindfulness, expressive arts and yoga therapy. She has experience with addiction, eating disorders, bi polar disorder, attachment and adjustment disorders. Additional trainings include Reiki master, Trauma Informed Yoga Instructor, Yoga for Addiction and yoga for those reco...

Meet The Therapist: Allison Rabin, LMHC, ATR-BC Allison is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Registered Art Therapist who earned an MA in Art Therapy from George Washington University in 2007. For more than a decade, Allison has worked with clients of all ages, individually and in Arts-Based Therapy Groups, to address challenging emotional, cognitive, and social issues through Art Therapy. Her specializations include: Trauma and PTSD, Anxiety and Depression, and Social or Communication difficulties. Allison is also trained in DBT.  In her clinical work, Allison helps clients identify their objectives for therapy and collaboratively designs art projects to address these objectives through metaphor. Through an intuitive process, clients come to surface unexpressed thoughts and feelings effecting their mental health. Clients develop an inner voice and set of tools that help them to make healthy decisions and overcome obstacles, feeling less stuck and more adept at achiev...

Meet The Therapist: Laura Beaudoin, LMHC, ATR-BC Laura is a licensed mental health counselor in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, a national certified counselor, a board certified art therapist, as well as a certified school counselor and art teacher. Laura has nine years experience applying the arts as a therapeutic modality and offer meaningful creative experiences that foster strengths, empowerment, expression beyond words, and healing. Laura has extensive experience working in schools with special education students with diverse needs in K-12th grade. She has also worked in community based in-home therapy, residential treatment settings for adolescents, hospitalized setting for adults in recovery, and community grief centers. Laura has written grants to bring art therapy for families in need of early intervention services and adults with traumatic brain injuries. In addition, Laura spent time volunteering as an art therapist at a home and school for people with intellectual a...