artsandplaytherapy.com

Welcome to artsandplaytherapy and work with Xia!

Xia is an art therapist (Canadian Art Therapy Association #66965082) and registered clinical counsellor (BC Association of Clinical Counsellors #19831), who has over 10 years counselling experience working with children, youth, adults, immigrants, and adoptive families, on issues including depression, anxiety, emotional regualtion, behavioral challenges, trauma and attachment, grief and loss, neurodivergence (e.g, ADHD, ASD), sexual abuse, life transitions, cultural identity, spirituality, and so on. 

Her work approach is relational, experiential, strengths-based, and trauma-informed. She has interests in integrating sensory processing, somatics, and mindfulness into her practice to stimulate awareness, body-mind connection, and inner resources. 

Xia used to be a university counsellor and instructor in China for 7 years. Since moving  to Canada, Xia discovered art therapy as a treasure box, which not only freed her imagination and creativity personally, but learned about how artmaking can be used as a meaningful channel to facilitate express, create, release, and transform in therapy. Artmaking as a metophoric and symbolic langauge helps connect with inner self, generate purpose, become whole, and make change come true. 

In 2023, Xia started her another professional training to become a certified sandplay therapist at Canadian Association for Sandplay Therapy, soon after she realized sandplay therapy is a wonderful tool to help human tap into their emotions, make unconscious surface, and thus gain insights and growth, whatever she/he is a child or adult. 

Here, Xia is holding a space filled with honesty, authenticity, and creativity. She thinks that humanity is univeral to all human beings, suffering and healing is coexisting like both sides of a coin, no matter where you are from and what you believe. 

Book a free consult to learn more about Xia's work and if it's a good fit to start therapy.