Reciprocity of Care: An Art-Based Supervision Series
Sunday, March 16, 23, 30, April 6, 2025, 3:00-5:00PM EST
Supervisors: Lindsay Clarke, MA, RCAT, ATR, CCC &
Carmen Oprea, MA, MFA, RCAT, ATR-BC, ATPQ
This supervision series invites therapists to reflect on their evolving relationship with healing, care, health, and service. Through community discussions, experiential exercises, and creative reflection, we will explore how our personal and cultural histories shape our therapeutic roles and how we can cultivate a sustainable, responsive practice. This workshop offers a space for deep reflection, realignment, and a more playful, interconnected approach to the role of the therapist in the current world.
The series has four parts:
Part 1: Reimagining Our Relationship with the Healer Role and Concepts of Health
What is health beyond the clinical definitions? In this opening session, we will explore the meaning to be a healer and the idea of health as an evolving, interconnected system that includes us as therapists. We will use imagery, metaphor, and reflection to redefine health not as an external goal but as a living, dynamic force that we are part of.
Participants will consider what nourishes health, what threatens it, and how we can engage with it more consciously in our work.
Part 2: Reflecting on Our Roots of Care and Relationship to Service
Why did we choose to become therapists? What values, experiences, and cultural narratives have shaped our relationship with care and service? In this session, we will explore our personal and professional roots, tracing our early influences and the ways they continue to inform our roles. Through reflection and discussion, we will examine both the strengths and challenges of our inherited values—honoring the wisdom they offer while making space for growth and transformation.
Part 3: Readjusting and Reclaiming a Healthy Approach to Practice
As therapists, we often emphasize well-being for others, but does our approach to practice support our own health and sustainability? This session invites participants to step back and assess whether their professional roles align with their needs, values, and evolving perspectives. Through guided reflection, we will explore where our work feels nourishing, where it may feel depleting, and what shifts might help us reclaim balance and authenticity in our therapeutic practice.
Part 4: Nurturing the Self within the Community
Healing does not happen in isolation—it is shaped by relationships, reciprocity, and shared presence. In our final session, we will explore the role of community in sustaining both ourselves and our practice. How do we engage in co-regulation? How do we cultivate a sense of mutual support and connection in our professional and personal lives? Using metaphor and embodied exercises, we will explore how the "organism" of health functions within community—where one hand responds to the other in a continuous, playful dialogue of care.
The series has four parts:
Part 1: Reimagining Our Relationship with the Healer Role and Concepts of Health
What is health beyond the clinical definitions? In this opening session, we will explore the meaning to be a healer and the idea of health as an evolving, interconnected system that includes us as therapists. We will use imagery, metaphor, and reflection to redefine health not as an external goal but as a living, dynamic force that we are part of.
Participants will consider what nourishes health, what threatens it, and how we can engage with it more consciously in our work.
Part 2: Reflecting on Our Roots of Care and Relationship to Service
Why did we choose to become therapists? What values, experiences, and cultural narratives have shaped our relationship with care and service? In this session, we will explore our personal and professional roots, tracing our early influences and the ways they continue to inform our roles. Through reflection and discussion, we will examine both the strengths and challenges of our inherited values—honoring the wisdom they offer while making space for growth and transformation.
Part 3: Readjusting and Reclaiming a Healthy Approach to Practice
As therapists, we often emphasize well-being for others, but does our approach to practice support our own health and sustainability? This session invites participants to step back and assess whether their professional roles align with their needs, values, and evolving perspectives. Through guided reflection, we will explore where our work feels nourishing, where it may feel depleting, and what shifts might help us reclaim balance and authenticity in our therapeutic practice.
Part 4: Nurturing the Self within the Community
Healing does not happen in isolation—it is shaped by relationships, reciprocity, and shared presence. In our final session, we will explore the role of community in sustaining both ourselves and our practice. How do we engage in co-regulation? How do we cultivate a sense of mutual support and connection in our professional and personal lives? Using metaphor and embodied exercises, we will explore how the "organism" of health functions within community—where one hand responds to the other in a continuous, playful dialogue of care.
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 project 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 project 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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