Antonia Valdez Vocalist & Musician

Creative Therapy Modalities

Expressive Arts - Healing Individuals and Groups of Clients as a Collaborative Effort

Music Therapy

Creative expression, accessing and improving memory, improving cognitive function, establishing and reconnecting neural connections. Treatments include active listening, playing musical instruments, percussive rhythms for releasing emotions, establishing a connection with the higher self. Music has the power to awaken dementia and Alzheimer’s patients, bringing life into the body and mind, singing from the soul. Music can heal psyche and soma.

Creative Writing

Through imagery, writing, or poetry, one can explore their thoughts. Expressing one’s thoughts through the process of creativity, letting go of intellect and judgment, can connect oneself with their identity, their stories, their true self awakening within the silence of words. Find your voice.

Authentic Movement

Engage in authentic movement and dance therapy. No dance training or experience is necessary. Just move. Follow your body where it leads, honoring oneself. The body explores space, exploring emotions stored within the psyche and soma. Moving the body freely, with guidance, can free stored traumatic memories, or physical pain. Dance movement is spontaneous healing of psyche and soma. A somatic approach for healing,, connecting body and mind, frees the soul.

Play Therapy

Play therapy is not just for kids. Find your inner child, the authentic self, the emerging child within. Let go of judgment, viewing oneself through the eyes of their child at play. Process the past by welcoming it into the present, exploring one's sights, sounds, and tactical senses, and rebuilding the psyche towards wholeness.

Creative Approaches from a Holistic Lens
Expressive Art Modalities:
Creative writing
Authentic movement
Dance movement
Dream analysis
Music therapy
Drawing & painting your life story
​Drama therapy
Play therapy
Role play
Sand Tray
Nature walking
Somatic breathing
​Mindfulness
Guided Meditation
​Rebirthing

​Antonia Valdez MFT uses a holistic lens, viewing individuals as people in the process of growth, becoming whole in oneness. "We are evolving, growing, learning, as a perpetual process. Moving through challenge is a processes of growth, discovering one's hidden strengths and embracing vulnerability."

Antonia studied dream analysis with the Sacramento Psychoanalytic Society, grief counseling with California Play Therapy Association, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) at Alliant International University, physiology at Duke University, experimental psychology at University of California San Diego, counseling psychology at John F. Kennedy University, and pharmacology at Harvard University online.