Jane V Farley, MFT
Expressive Art Therapy in Marin
Child, Adolescent and Adult Expressive Art Therapy - Twenty years of experience offering expressive arts therapy as an effective "language" for deepening awareness, insight and integration. Art is a gentle and yet powerful tool to promote healing, integration, acceptance and change in life experience.
Positive Parenting Strategies - I have years of experience coaching and supporting parents on how to become more satisfied, confident, compassionate and effective parents with DBT and positive parenting techniques and strategies.
DBT Skills Training - I offer DBT skills lite for indivdiuals working with a DBT Therapist (click: DBT Therapy and Mindfulness for information).
Couples Therapy and Relationship Counseling - In my couples work, I support you in learning how to work through a broad range of crisis and intimacy issues including: emotional dysregulation; agression and withdrawal patterns, attachment and control issues, and communication "language" differences. My style is strength-based, collaborative and direct.
Family DBT Therapy and Skills Training - I utilize DBT within a family systems approach to teach DBT skills as well as improve structural dynamics and balance of power, reduce chaos, hopelessness and hurt and increase mindfulness, trust, respect, fairness, and appreciation for each member's experience and role within the family community.
Depending on the needs of my clients, I draw from a variety of therapeutic and clinical approaches in which I am intensively trained, including: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Gestalt Therapy, Jungian Expressive Art & Play Therapy and Family Systems.
It is my goal to encourage people of all ages and walks of life to become more accepting and aware of their unique strengths as well as limitations, and to assist my clients in taking greater pride and ownership of the power and responsibility they possess to accept, direct and alter the course of their own thoughts, feelings and actions in life. Acceptance and Change.
DBT Center of Marin Clinical DBT Team, California and American Association for Marriage, Family Therapy (CAMFT/AAMFT), National and Washington Mental Health Counselors Association (N/WMHCA), Network Therapy, American Association for Play Therapy (AAPT), C.G. Jung Society, Children's Hospital Regional Medical Center Community DBT Team (CHRMC), Psychotherapy Consult Team, DrawBridge, and Art With Heart.
For more information, please email: expressivehearts@gmail.com