Holly Keen Goldes Expressive Arts Therapy

Expressive Arts Therapist specializing in Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Trauma, Identity, LGBTQIA2+.

Holly Keen Goldes

Pronouns: She / They

BA, Certified Expressive Arts Therapist

Holly is a queer POC Expressive Arts Therapist. She's ethnically half Chinese Canadian. She grew up on Vancouver Island and has lived in Vancouver, China and now she's calling Cumberland, BC her home.

She works with women, queer and non-binary clients. She specializes in helping clients with Anxiety, Grief, Trauma, Depression, Self-confidence and Self-development as well as exploring, Sexual orientation and Gender identity. Holly welcomes members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Holly allows for a gentle space to explore and heal through the Expressive Arts.

Her main background trainings are in movement and music. She loves to encourage clients to explore through creativity and to honour that no experience is needed at all in this type of work to receive the benefits and healing that the Expressive Arts have to offer.

A session with Holly will allow for a calm, gentle held space for her clients to be and explore exactly who and what they need to be in the moment. She offers gentle suggestions that clients can take or leave, in order to deepen an experience, a movement, or a sound during a session.

Holly holds a connection to nature and to spirituality close at heart. She brings elements of the grounded healing earth and the gentle fluidity and energy of water to her sessions and workshops.

Holly has worked and had many different job opportunities and careers which she brings to her work to enrichen her clients experiences.

Some of these experiences include traveling and living and performing as a singer overseas in China, working as a busker on Granville Island and in Gas town, singing in various bands, performing in Festivals as a mixed media artist, working as a sea kayak guide, a construction worker, a tree planter and being involved in varying forms of movement like capoeira, tango, ballet and wrestling.

All of these experiences she brings with her, in her work in the Expressive Arts. These experiences help to offer a whole and holistic experience and bring a wealth of understanding of differing gender roles and dynamics that can be experienced in relation to them.