Ruth Hamilton, MA Ed., Expressive Arts Counselor, guides you in the exploration of the healing arts. Expressive Arts for Healing is the practice of integrating imagery, visual arts, dance, music, sound, humor, and poetry to foster human growth and to transform stress-producing emotions.

Ruth Hamilton is a certified Expressive Arts for Healing counselor. Her training was received at the Expressive Arts Institute, Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. She is also a certified Technology for Creating facilitator. Ruth studied curative water coloring at Rudolph Steiner University, Sacramento, CA. In 2005, Ruth conducted the Expressive Arts Camp: Earth, Fire, Wind, and Rain for patients in the Cancer Clinic at UNC. In 2005, she also was an Expressive Arts therapist for the NC Children’s Hospital.

The healing art of humor is another of Ruth’s specialties. In 1986, she founded Carolina Health & Humor Assoc. which has assisted medical centers across America to implement Healing Humor programs. Ruth’s Laugh Mobile humor library can be seen at www.CarolinaHAHA.org. Laughter and creative humor using improvisation is woven into the empowering Expressive Arts sessions.

Expressive Arts uses arts as an avenue for helping you:

*Resolve the conflict in thoughts and feelings
*Stop the inner critic and unsupportive thoughts
*Promote your talents in all of life
*Communicate feelings to others in non-threatening ways
*Reveal the needs communicated through feelings

An Expresive Arts Brochure can be downloaded. Select a .pdf or MSword format .

Contact Ruth Hamilton for setting up your Expressive Arts session. She is conveniently located at Health Touch in the Westgate Plaza, Durham, NC.

You may call Ruth at (919)-544-2370 or e-mail her at Ruth@ArtsCanHeal.com