The Wild Art Therapy collective is in the final stages of closure, as it evolves from one company to individual practices. We are grateful for the community that has been created and excited for the transitions.
Wild Art Therapy was a collective of counsellors and clinicians who approach 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 honour these sacred connections and invite them into the therapeutic process.
NATHAN (NATYÉ) TORTI, MA, RCT
As Wild Art Therapy slides away into the waters of time, magical new life emerges,
called fourth to breathe in deeply and expand into the fresh newness to become Natyé's next clinic:
The Dragonfly Mountain Counselling Therapy Center
CO-FOUNDER, TRANSPERSONAL counseling THERAPIST
“Stewardship for oneself, others and the natural world”
Nathan is a clinical therapist for young adults, individuals and families who struggle with complex trauma, substance abuse, addictive behaviors, anxiety, big emotions and technology addictions.
Nathan weaves Wilderness Counselling Therapy with Transpersonal Psychology to create a foundation of eco-centric healing with three foundations: Everyone is basically sane, everyone is trying to get their needs met and everyone is doing the best they can with what they are aware of.
His approach is to support clients to connect with their innate capacity to heal by listening. Together, we create a safe enough space for people to come out of their heads (problem solving) and into their heart (emotional literacy) and body (intuition). By cultivating a new kind of relationship with ourselves, we can steward a fluid connection to our health, healing and empowerment.
Nathan has been successfully creating and facilitating creative Wilderness Therapy programs and interventions such as rock climbing, hiking, snowboarding and ceremony as well as therapeutic work with wolves and horses since 2001. 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).
katie hanczaryk, MA, RCT, RCAT
co-founder, Transpersonal Art Therapist
"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 Counselling Therapist. Katie has been trained in trauma-informed, relational approaches. Katie has a certification in the Emotional Freedom Technique, a way to use our body's natural state of health and wellbeing to facilitate creating new neural pathways in the brain. Katie is certified in WholeBody Relational Focusing techniques.
Combining sandtray therapy, Art Therapy, body based practices and mindfulness into sessions, Katie journeys with each of her clients to support a return to feeling at home in the body and mind. Katie is currently supervising RCT-C's, as well as those pursuing their RCAT designations.
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 Counselling Therapist. Katie has been trained in trauma-informed, relational approaches. Katie has a certification in the Emotional Freedom Technique, a way to use our body's natural state of health and wellbeing to facilitate creating new neural pathways in the brain. Katie is certified in WholeBody Relational Focusing techniques.
Combining sandtray therapy, Art Therapy, body based practices and mindfulness into sessions, Katie journeys with each of her clients to support a return to feeling at home in the body and mind. Katie is currently supervising RCT-C's, as well as those pursuing their RCAT designations.