Freeform Studio
Embodied arts counseling for children and teens
A studio-based approach to therapy using art, movement, the body, and imagination. Helping young people be seen, be known, and begin to heal.
Serving Stillwater, MN and surrounding communities.
Many children struggle to talk about what they're feeling. They may shut down, act out, or carry things they don't yet have words for. And for a lot of kids, sitting in a chair and talking about their problems isn't how healing happens.
At Freeform Studio, children are offered a different way in: through spontaneous creative expression, movement, improvisation, and hands-on engagement with materials. The process itself is the work. Nothing is scripted. Nothing needs to be finished or polished. What matters is what emerges when a child feels free enough to play, make, and transform without limits.
Some kids need a place
where nothing is wrong with them.
Where they don't have to perform wellness
or produce the right answer
or hold still.
Children heal when they feel free enough
to be fully themselves —
not a version of themselves
that's easier to manage.
The whole thing:
the intensity, the confusion, the aliveness.
That child deserves to be met.
What Makes This Different
This is not a traditional talk therapy practice. It's a studio. An improvisational space where children create freely using their bodies, their imaginations, and real materials. They paint, sculpt, move, embody characters, build worlds, and tear them down again. They make messes. And the mess is where the real work happens.
Nothing here is fixed. Ideas emerge, transform, and dissolve. A painting becomes a story becomes a movement becomes something no one planned. I create alongside each child in a fluid, responsive space where the process itself, not the product, is both the creative act and the healing one.
At its heart, this is witness work.
Freeform Studio is built around that understanding.
Catching the Spark
If you're looking for something different for your child, something that meets them where they actually are, and looks for what's alive in them, I'd welcome the chance to connect.