Recovery Work Adriana specializes in addiction/recovery issues. She has developed a specific body of work offering creative healing opportunities for people in recovery that complement psychotherapy and twelve-step programs. Expressive arts therapy can be a supportive and transformative practice for the recovering person and can complement other recovery practices (i.e. 12 step groups, psychotherapy, bodywork, etc). Creative Source provides both individual and group opportunities for people recovering from all forms of addiction, i.e. alcohol and drug addiction, eating disorders, sex and love addiction and co-dependency. Engaging in a creative approach allows recovering persons to: express themselves in a nonverbal way to increase self-awareness and communication skills develop a stronger awareness of their emotional, physical and imaginative selves have fun and become more participatory in their own lives through self-expression find new ways to deal with the inner critic and allow more freedom in recovery gain fresh perspectives while turning struggles and difficulties of recovery into artistic resources vision healthy life choices through the creative process The expressive arts can help to enhance the quality of life for the recovering person by enlivening and empowering them through creativity. Adriana also is available for presenting workshops and groups at recovery facilities. Please see below for a list of facilities Adriana has presented at in the Bay Area: Mandana Community Recovery Center, Oakland, CA Women's Alcoholism Center, San Francisco, CA Epiphany Center for Women and Children, San Francisco, CA Ohlhoff Eating Disorders Clinic, San Francisco, CA Ohlhoff Drug and Alcohol Recovery Program, San Francisco, CA SAGE (Sexual Abuse & Global Exploitation), San Francisco, CA World Retreats (for Women with Life Threatening Illnesses), Healdsburg, CA Quotes from Participants: "...The experiences I have had with expressive arts have encouraged me to take risks and come out of my shell, to reach out to others in a give-and-take manner. This has greatly improved my recovery and my social skills in general." "The expressive arts therapy tools are so graphic that they enabled me to really see in drawings/writing and experience my lack of self-respect and to embody, create and vision other possibilities." "Working with my personal material - with my body particularly - enabled me to engage more fully than I ever had in talking therapy. Using expressive/creative methods gave me a way to begin to live and act differently - move in the ways I wanted to be. It drew on more of my resources - more deeply. It gave me a new and fuller language with others."