Flow: An Art-Based Supervision Series
Carmen Oprea, MA, MFA, ATR-BC, RCAT
Lindsay Clarke, MA, ATR, RCAT, CCC
This three-part art-based supervision series invites participants to explore their professional practice through the lens of flow, embodied awareness, and symbolic reflection. Using visual metaphors and experiential art-making, we will engage with themes related to movement from stuckness, flow, energy, and containment.
Session 1
Movement and Connection
We begin by exploring symbolic representations of flow in our work: where energy moves easily, where it becomes blocked, and how we connect with clients, systems, and ourselves through movement, rhythm, and relational presence.
Session 2
Zooming In and Zooming Out
This session invites a shift in perspective — from focusing on intricate clinical details and techniques to stepping back and observing the broader narrative and building trust as therapist. Through creative practices, we reflect on how we orient ourselves between case-specific dynamics and our larger therapeutic vision.
Session 3
Grounded Flow and Containment
We close by exploring how to cultivate steady, grounded flow in both our personal and professional rhythms. Through imagery and reflection, we consider how to hold therapeutic space with intention, sustain our energy, and remain connected to purpose over time.
Each session includes time for creative exploration, group reflection, and dyad integration, offering space for restoration, insight, and growth.
Session 1
Movement and Connection
We begin by exploring symbolic representations of flow in our work: where energy moves easily, where it becomes blocked, and how we connect with clients, systems, and ourselves through movement, rhythm, and relational presence.
Session 2
Zooming In and Zooming Out
This session invites a shift in perspective — from focusing on intricate clinical details and techniques to stepping back and observing the broader narrative and building trust as therapist. Through creative practices, we reflect on how we orient ourselves between case-specific dynamics and our larger therapeutic vision.
Session 3
Grounded Flow and Containment
We close by exploring how to cultivate steady, grounded flow in both our personal and professional rhythms. Through imagery and reflection, we consider how to hold therapeutic space with intention, sustain our energy, and remain connected to purpose over time.
Each session includes time for creative exploration, group reflection, and dyad integration, offering space for restoration, insight, and growth.
About the Workshop Facilitators
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Lindsay Clarke, MA, RCAT, ATR, CCC
Art Therapist
Lindsay believes in the importance of nurturing community and creativity. For the past 10 years she has provided art therapy at a women’s shelter, schools, and art hives. She has enjoyed developing and facilitating community art exhibitions to support the voices of those who have survived violence, the impacts of suicide, and living through homelessness and mental illness.
She now offers art therapy to people of all ages at her Montreal studio, atelier lanterne. Her practice is with a focus on art making and creative process as a catalyst towards change, health, and empowerment. Her work is guided by principles of trauma-informed, attachment-based, and strength-based art therapy practices.
Lindsay provides supervision to individual art therapists and also within a community context, in order to facilitate ongoing growth, curiosity, and support.
She now offers art therapy to people of all ages at her Montreal studio, atelier lanterne. Her practice is with a focus on art making and creative process as a catalyst towards change, health, and empowerment. Her work is guided by principles of trauma-informed, attachment-based, and strength-based art therapy practices.
Lindsay provides supervision to individual art therapists and also within a community context, in order to facilitate ongoing growth, curiosity, and support.
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Carmen Oprea, MA, MFA, RCAT, ATR-BC, ATPQ
Art Therapist
Carmen is a registered art therapist with post-graduate training in sandplay therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy. Holding master's degrees in art therapy and fine arts, she is currently a doctoral candidate in psychology.
Her professional career includes art therapy services for individuals and groups of all ages with various life challenges, at her clinic, Accès Art. She deeply resonates with Indigenous wisdom and strives to provide culturally sensitive art therapy to Inuit and First Nations adolescents.
Carmen is fortunate to be part of a dedicated team at Concordia University, engAGE Living Lab project and she is co-investigator in a research projects related to art therapy and depression at the same university.
She provides supervision to creative art therapists in person and online.
Her professional career includes art therapy services for individuals and groups of all ages with various life challenges, at her clinic, Accès Art. She deeply resonates with Indigenous wisdom and strives to provide culturally sensitive art therapy to Inuit and First Nations adolescents.
Carmen is fortunate to be part of a dedicated team at Concordia University, engAGE Living Lab project and she is co-investigator in a research projects related to art therapy and depression at the same university.
She provides supervision to creative art therapists in person and online.
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