Lucie Jenny Mazzola, psychologist and art therapist, answers 3 questions to help us better understand her method and the support she offers.

What is art therapy?
Art therapy is a form of support that enables people to express themselves, to shape and elaborate the expressible and the inexpressible, and to create links and meaning as part of a process of change. Instead of expressing themselves solely in words, as in conventional therapy, with art therapy, people express themselves through creation (collage, photo, drawing, painting, writing, movement, sound). Each session is divided into three parts: a time for talking, a time for creating, and a time for a final talk.

The art therapist helps you to express your emotions, feelings, needs, fears, memories and dreams through your personal creations.

No artistic talent or special skills are required to benefit fully from this support.

For whom? Why?
Histoires d'enVies offers art-therapy support to help you through the difficult stages of life, when words are no longer enough. More specifically, Histoires d'enVies offers support for your maternity project: welcoming your unborn child creatively, but also when life comes to a halt at a difficult stage: infertility, perinatal bereavement, perinatal depression, difficult childbirth, parental burn-out.

Art therapy can help you :

• (re)become the author of your life's journey: by putting words and shapes to your difficulties, you can (re)appropriate your story.
• express your feelings, your emotions, your needs: because it's important to be able to externalize your feelings so that they don't register and turn into a somatic illness. With art therapy, you can do something concrete with the suffering you experience.
• (re)discover your resources: you'll be surprised to discover resources within yourself that you never imagined.

"To create is to express oneself, revisit one's history, explore one's resources and transform oneself.
and transforming oneself. (ARAET website)

Who am I?
With my university studies in psychology (Master's degree at the University of Lausanne) and ten years of practice in special education, I came to appreciate the importance of early parent-child bonds. When I became a mother, I experienced the vulnerability that motherhood brings.

I trained in intermedia art therapy at L'Atelier (Geneva), and over the years have developed skills in the various art forms with which I propose to work (diploma in visual arts, African dance and BMC, acting and clowning, writing: poetry, haiku).

My coaching work is rooted in my values, which are

trust, change, cooperation, family and confidentiality.

Lucie Jenny Mazzola
ASCA-certified psychologist and art therapist, member of ARAET
www.histoiresdenvies.ch