When & Where?

August 19-23 from 9AM-12PM @ 2nd Street Office (558 2nd Street Brooklyn NY 11215)

Group Description

Through creative arts and play, this group will help kids to:

• Playfully practice interacting with their peers

• Develop their sense of self

• Integrate body awareness

• Learn how to express feelings in a healthy manner

• Build self-reflection and spontaneity

Clinical Team

Hesper Juhnke, LCAT is an expressive arts therapist, queer ally, and norm disruptor with 9 years of experience running groups for children, adolescents, and adults. Hesper’s style integrates a combination of the arts and psychodynamic talk therapy. Her approach is derived from person-centered, psychodynamic, existential, and attachment based practices. Creatively, she works with body-oriented modalities such as drama therapy and play therapy, as well as writing, visual art, movement, and music. She works to integrate these creative offerings into sessions for individuals at all levels of comfort, so no previous experience with the arts is required.

Kim Hedaya, LCAT, is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Registered Dance/Movement Therapist who works with children, parents, and families. She provides individual, dyadic, and group therapy, integrating nonverbal modalities such as play, movement, music, and art with verbal processing, building the mind-body connection of her clients. Kim is psychodynamically oriented with a trauma-informed lens. Her approach centers on humanistic and attachment theory while weaving mindfulness, authentic movement, and creative practices, tailoring and attuning to each client’s needs.