We begin by acknowledging that, here in Nova Scotia, we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. We are all treaty people.

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Wild Art Therapy approaches health and healing from a Transpersonal perspective. This means we depend upon, value and include more than just human beings in the healing process. One's relationship to Self often includes so much more than our body and mind. We are made up of the people, places, systems, cultures, animals, plants, and spirituality around us. We honor these sacred connections and invite them into the therapeutic process. 

katie hanczaryk, MA, RCT, RCAT

Art therapist & Transpersonal 
Psychology 

"Creativity allows for connections beyond words" 

Katie has the unique ability to gently support clients through radical transformational shifts. Katie co-founded the Naropa Community Art Studio- International, (ncasi.wordpress.com) which brought the power of art therapy to women and children affected by the sex trafficking industry in Cambodia. Katie continues her work, specializing in sexual abuse and survivors of childhood sexual assault and trauma. 

Utilizing a Client-Centered approach to healing, Katie combines Art Therapy and Transpersonal Psychology to create a safe haven for trauma survivors and individuals wanting to reconnect with themselves and enrich their relationships with others. 

Katie is a Registered Canadian Art Therapist and Registered Counseling Therapist. Katie has been trained in Trauma-informed, relational approaches. Katie has a certification in the Emotional Freedom Technique, a way to use our bodies natural state of health and wellbeing to facilitate creating new neural pathways in the brain. Katie is currently studying WholeBody Relational Focusing techniques. Combining sandtray therapy,  Art Therapy, body based practices and mindfulness into sessions Katie journey's with each of her clients to support a return to feeling at home in the body and mind. 

nathan M. torti, MA, RCT

Transpersonal Wilderness therapist
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“Stewardship for Oneself, Others and the Natural World”
 
Nathan has worked as clinical therapist with sex and violent offenders, young adults and families who struggled with complex trauma and grief as well as substance abuse and addictive behaviors, anxiety and specializes in Internet and Technology addiction.

He has been successfully creating and facilitating Wilderness Therapy programs and interventions such as rock climbing, hiking, snowboarding and ceremony as well as therapeutic work with wolves and horses since 2002. All of his work involves mindfulness-based activities including an innovative Tai Chi Chaun group that has been recognized in the clinical guide: Internet Addiction in Children and Adolescents. Risk Factors and Assessment and Treatment (2017). 
 
Nathan recently relocated with his wife and two kids to Nova Scotia, Canada to be closer to family. In addition to a private practice, he provides supervision for RCT graduated students and RCT candidates. 

Since moving to Nova Scotia, he has facilitated men’s groups for refugees with ISANS, and was the Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Raven Wisdom Retreat Society, an equine-assisted therapy facility focusing on supporting survivors of sexualized violence. He most recently began serving on the Board of Directors for the Nova Scotia College of Counseling Therapists.