Expressive Arts Therapy

“In the early days of our innocence, the soul needs an image that it resonates with if it is to come forward…something it recognizes, in other words, a mirror.”

— Sharon Martin, Jungian psychoanalyst

What is SoulCollage®?

  • magazines for cutting out images for SoulCollage

    Images.

    A method of self-discovery and self-expression through images which tell a story. Each card in your SoulCollage® deck represents an aspect of your MindBodySoul that is seeking to guide you, challenge you, and bring you into greater balance.

  • hand touching the waters creating ripples

    Intuition.

    Discover intuitive answers that come from deep, mysterious places. Intuition is what allows you to select images you are drawn to and repelled by, even if they don’t make logical sense. Learn to trust your intuition and follow where it leads.

  • a child daydreaming and full of imagination

    Imagination.

    Imagination is activated when you can be curious, open, and nonjudgmental to whatever shows up. SoulCollage® offers an abundance of techniques for giving yourself permission to work and play creatively with your images and inner parts.

  • person blowing confetti out of their hands

    Surprise.

    Each card you create is a piece of the puzzle that is you. In SoulCollage®, these puzzle pieces talk! Your cards will say the darndest things and jolt you by their insight, capacity to love and comfort you, and daring to call you out and call you in.

  • three overlapping leaves and the interplay of light and shadow as they cross over each other

    Synchronicity.

    “Collaborate with chance” and discover surprising synchronicities when creating and consulting your cards. These meaningful coincidences have a way of meeting your needs in the moment and revealing how the the psyche and archetypal are linked.

  • a statue holding purple flowers in seated meditation

    Sacred.

    SoulCollage® is about creating sacred spaces and rituals for getting intimately acquainted with the wholeness of your MindBodySoul and the unfolding of your Life Story. Your cards hold sacred truths and are there to support you in your personal healing journey.

SoulCollage® in Therapy

SoulCollage® is a valuable therapeutic technique that may be incorporated into therapy. I am a trained SoulCollage® Facilitator and passionate about sharing this powerfully creative process to support your personal growth and wellness goals.

Images are the symbolic language of the soul and the unconscious. SoulCollage® helps you access these deeper terrains of MindBodySoul in what Seena Frost, psychotherapist and founder of SoulCollage®, calls “right-brain play.”

SoulCollage® has many applications to facilitate insight into your inner cast of characters and personality parts which are hindering and helping you. Discover which aspects of your MindBodySoul are balanced or in need of balancing, which is to say, working with Light and Shadow.

I will guide you through the process of creating your own deck of SoulCollage® cards to symbolize those inner parts of yourself, your community, and the archetypes that are choosing to work in you. You will learn creative ways of working and playing with your cards to answer your life’s questions and find guidance from within.

SoulCollage® offers an abundance of experiential activities to tap into the wisdom of your MindBodySoul, including:

  • creating cards in the four suits (Committee, Council, Community, Companions)

  • doing “readings” using your deck

  • in-depth journaling questions

  • inner child healing

  • shadow work

  • dream work

  • chakra work

  • poetry

  • meditations

  • rituals

Discover Your Wisdom. Change Your World.™

Seena’s Wisdom: What is creativity?

“A person is creative when he/she arouses that sleeping Creative Neter within (we all have one), and gives it permission, time, and encouragement to venture into the vast sea of floating ideas, images, and words. Then, from this vastness, our Creative Neter takes out certain pieces that are beckoning, assembles them, and fits them together in a totally new way. This may take an hour or a day or a year, but your Creative Neter hopes to come forth, in time, with a new creation in hand."

— Seena Frost, founder of SoulCollage®

 
picture of SoulCollage founder seena frost wearing a pink scarf and smiling

SoulCollage® Sample Cards

  • tierra with collage images of big bend

    Big Bend (Community)

    I Am the special place you’ve been visiting over the years. My vistas captivate you and juxtapose your smallness with my vastness. What I have to give you is perspective. Let go of focusing on the little things, see the big picture. The journey is not about perfection. It is about self-discovery.

  • a tree's roots placed over a city scape

    Rewilding Soul (Council)

    I Am One Who seeks a rewilding of the human psyche and a restoration of the connection between the human and more-than-human worlds. The gift I bring is hope. Life is persistent. Persistence is your inheritance, and let it be your legacy.

  • a person looking at the grains of sand

    Heart Sands (Committee)

    I Am One Who beholds the grandeur of the tiny things, the wonder of microscopic beings. I recognize the teeming of life underfoot, the universes that abound as above, so below. The gift I bring you is appreciation of your tiny but mighty place on this “pale blue dot.”

SoulCollage® Resources

 
 

ARTICLES AND WEBSITES

SOULCOLLAGE® SUPPLIES

Here are some ideas and suggestions for supplies:

  • Wide selection of images

  • Scissors

  • Glue stick

  • 5x8 mat boards. You can purchase “super thick index cards” and glue two cards together, which approximates the thickness/firmness of mat boards. Link here.

Optional:

  • 8 x 10 Card Frame (with 5 x 8 cutout in the center). Buy or make your own. Link here.

  • SoulCollage® Card Sleeves. Link here.

  • Brayer or any similar object to flatten images and smooth out wrinkles. Link here.

 

Ready to set up a free 30 minute discovery call to see if therapy is right for you?

We will talk about your goals, and I can help you decide if I’m the right fit for you.

The Guest House by Rumi

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

 

“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke