Work With Me

I work with anyone who wants to enhance the quality of life and experience the self in authentic ways.

This work is effective for people who are interested in using the arts for healing purposes, people who want to move beyond traditional approaches of healing. It also works well for artists who are using the arts already but do not yet know how to make their art more personal and meaningful. And last, but not least, it works well for people who are looking for a more embodied lifestyle and meaningful experiences for their personal growth.

I have helped people who were working through the following:

establishing personal boundaries
conquering addiction
healing depression
overcoming abuse
surviving grief
creating a dance theater piece

Experience is not required in either movement, drawing, or writing. You only need to be open to using the arts as a tool for personal expression and creating awareness.

" The art opens me, the art opens me to you, the art opens us to the world and opens the world to us.” (Daria Halprin)

Individual Session

An individual session gives you time and space to work with what is important to you at that very moment of your life. In the session I focus on a balance between checking in verbally, connecting to your physical sensations, and engaging with the tools of the expressive arts. Working in this way allows you to experience your encounter as a whole and to move beyond your thinking mind. You are further stimulated to use those creative strategies in your daily life and to enhance your quality of life in a sustainable way.

“I’ve found working with personal life material through movement, drawing and writing to be far more powerfully transformative than any other form of therapy. Often, we know what patterns of thought are hurting us, but no matter how much we talk about the issues and try to change our thoughts and behaviors, the patterns are so deep that the struggle feels endless. Through movement, drawing, and writing, I’ve been able to shift parts of myself, seemingly effortlessly within Helma’s practice.”

— Nastassja Noell

Workshops

In a workshop we explore body parts, postures, and life themes using the tools of the expressive arts. We work solo and with partners and in ensembles to receive multiple forms of stimulation. The dialogue between sensing and expressing enlivens our life force, while we learn to listen to the body’s wisdom and the creativity of the imagination.