Sara Skipper

Sara Skipper is an art therapist. She holds professional membership with the Canadian Art Therapy Association. She received her post graduate masters level diploma in Art Therapy from the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute in British Columbia, Canada. Sara is a Registered Psychotherapist, Qualifying, with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario.

Prior to her education in art therapy, Sara trained and worked in seniors’ communities. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Recreation and Leisure Studies from Brock University and a diploma in Recreation Services from Sir Sandford Fleming College.

Sara offers art therapy for individuals, closed groups and community-based art making for children, youth, adults and older adults. She walks alongside individuals as they explore issues related to relationships, identity, trauma, life transitions, burn out, grief, loss, stress, pre and post-natal health, parenting, menstrual health, anxiety, depression and spiritual exploration.

Sara's therapeutic approach is relational and trauma informed, rooted in intersectional feminism and she uses a variety of modalities and theoretical frameworks within her work, such as mindfulness-based practices, attachment theory, neuroscience, psychoanalytical theory and nature-based psychotherapy.

She is firmly connected to nature, weaves through her life with curiosity and playfulness and believes in the healing powers found in storytelling, creativity and community.

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