Art Therapy, EMDR & Verbal Therapy for Anxiety and Trauma in Brooklyn
Feminist, trauma-informed creative arts therapy for women, LGBTQIA+ folks, and artists — virtually across New York & in our Brooklyn office.
Our Ethos
We approach art therapy from an anti-oppressive, culturally aware, feminist perspective. We consider these principles to be the foundation of our work — whether we're sitting with anxiety, trauma, an eating disorder, or the specific weight of making a creative life in New York.
Our licensed art therapists pair evidence-based psychotherapy with creative expression to help you process what's hard to say. In-person at our Brooklyn studio, or virtually across New York State. Always committed to helping our clients find fortitude in an increasingly uncertain world.
What We Treat
All of us have experienced some degree of anxiety, and too many of us have experienced trauma. We’re here to provide uniquely beneficial treatments for both, or anything else you may be coping with. We’re also proud to provide eating disorder treatment for adolescents and adults.
Anxiety
The fear that it will happen again, running underneath everything and tightening the body before the mind catches up. Art therapy gives that feeling somewhere to go that isn't more thinking.
Trauma
For what the body still holds long after the mind has understood it — the memory that arrives on its own schedule. Trauma-focused work, paced to the nervous system rather than the calendar.
Eating Disorders
For adolescents and adults. A weight-inclusive, HAES-aligned approach to the whole picture — internal, familial, cultural, and everything tangled around food — not just what's on the plate.
Depression
When the color drains out and even words feel like far too much to reach for. On the days talking can't move, materials can — something to hold onto before anything has to be said out loud.
How We Treat
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Art Therapy
Art therapy is a psychotherapy modality in which the client creates art in the context of a therapy session, so that both verbal and visual expression can be used for healing. Art making taps into the unconscious, allowing things that are difficult to verbally articulate rise to the surface.
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EMDR
EMDR utilizes bilateral body stimulation to access whole neural networks that have been created due to a traumatic experience. This means that we use body tapping or eye movements to access, and then shift, those networks into a more peaceful and healed place.
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Verbal Therapy
Sometimes we just need to talk things out. Our therapists are trained in various verbal psychotherapy modalities, including DBT, CBT, narrative therapy, and others; we also incorporate verbal therapy in our art therapy and EMDR sessions.
Why Choose Art Therapy in Brooklyn?
Most talk therapy asks you to name what you're feeling before you've found the words. Art therapy doesn't. By working with pain alongside a licensed creative arts therapist (LCAT, ATR-BC), you access what lives below language — the somatic, symbolic, and unconscious material that often drives anxiety and trauma responses.
Brooklyn North is a small, women-led practice based in Brooklyn. We work with:
Creative professionals and artists navigating burnout, identity, or blocks
Women and LGBTQIA+ clients wanting a feminist, affirming space
Adults healing from trauma and complex PTSD via EMDR + art therapy
Our Team
The founder of Brooklyn North, with 15+ years of experience and a seat on NYU's art therapy faculty. She works where clinical depth meets creative life — EMDR for attachment trauma, and a home for artists, the LGBTQ+ community, women, and parents.
Adrienne Figueiredo, MA, LCAT, ATR
Our eating-disorder and teen specialist, integrative and trauma-informed. She leans into talk, brings art in when words run out, and holds every body as it is.
Jennifer Warpool, MA, LCAT, ATR-BC
The team's most structured, by-the-book clinician and most experienced in EMDR. She works with complex PTSD, and is a steady presence for creative, queer, and BIPOC clients.
Emily Hardy, MA, MPS, LCAT, ATR-BC
Brittany Johnston, MA, LCAT
EMDR and body-based work for trauma and life transitions, at the pace you set. After years in her own practice, Brittany works in a looser, flow-led way — following what surfaces.
What Others Have Said About Us
Frequently Asked Questions
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Our art and verbal psychotherapy sessions are typically 45 minutes; EMDR sessions are typically 55 minutes.
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45 minute sessions are $250, and 55 minute sessions are $275.
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No! You can choose to make art every week, on occasion, or never at all. You and your therapist will determine what the best course of treatment will be.
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Yes! Most of our sessions are conducted via a secure telehealth platform. We do have some in person availability as well.
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Anyone can do art therapy – absolutely no artistic skill is required. Art therapy is much more focused on the process, not the product; this means that the process of making the artwork is much more important than the end result.
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We are proud to be paneled with Aetna, Cigna, and Healthfirst, and enjoy serving folks on Medicaid. However, we are only able to reserve a certain number of slots for insurance clients, so please reach out to inquire if we have that availability. Please also note that many insurances offer benefits for out of network providers!
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In an art therapy session, you will be creating art while talking to your therapist. They may give you guidance on what to create, or it may be free form; either way, your therapist will be talking with you & guiding you throughout.
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Your therapist will first explore your trauma history with you so they can focus treatment accordingly. Then the sessions will consist of either you tapping your upper arms or watching a screen as dots pass by in order to access the trauma-based neural network. We know this can sound odd! Please don’t hesitate to reach out and we can provide much more information.
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In you have to cancel less than 24 hours before your appointment, you will be charged the full session fee. This is due our inability to offer the slot to another client.