Izuannette Garcia
LCAT #2343
Identity
Anxiety
Depression
Client Focus: Young Adults, Adults, Elderly
Specialties: Identity, anxiety, depression, anger, climate mental health, mindfulness, emotional expression and regulation, self-awareness and integration
Treatment Methods: Creative Arts Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Gestalt Therapy, Sublimation Techniques, Environmental Consciousness Integration
Izuannette Garcia is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist who specializes in working with young adults, adults, and elderly clients navigating questions of identity, anxiety, and depression. She believes the creative process can mirror many aspects in our lives that we need to feel and witness in order to facilitate change. By finding the right formula that integrates art and psychotherapy with curiosity of the self, the doors of the unconscious and consciousness can open. This can be an unfamiliar space, but it can be facilitated with guidance and support to understand more of the self and the "whys" in life, exploring and reflecting on areas of struggle, stuckness, or flow.
Her therapeutic approach integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Gestalt techniques with creative arts therapy. Izuannette brings unique expertise in environmental consciousness, sublimation techniques, and alternative art-making processes. She curates materials individually for the need at the moment, finding the right formula for each person. This is why she diversifies her skills in many areas to adapt to those needs—finding materials and art processes that help release and regulate emotions, as well as being creative with what is available for art making to help facilitate change. She helps clients learn to safely express emotions often suppressed, such as anger, sadness, and fear, through creative outlets, providing nonverbal, visual ways to externalize inner turmoil.
With a Master's degree from Pratt Institute, Izuannette used art as a child to explore and escape the difficulties in life, only to find later on that this was art as therapy in progress. She integrates this practice in her life as a professional and a believer in the creative process. This has ignited her constant curiosity to explore different forms of art and therapy techniques to continually grow and adapt.
Outside the therapy room, Izuannette has a passion for climate consciousness and loves to learn tech techniques around art. She enjoys finding innovative self-care, such as antigravity yoga, sensory deprivation tanks, sound baths, and more. You would also find her exploring the world and all its cultures.
Environmental Consciousness Integration
Izuannette integrates the environment into her practice for presence and climate consciousness, recognizing how our connection to the natural world affects mental health. She helps clients develop awareness of environmental factors that impact well-being while exploring creative ways to process climate-related anxiety and eco-grief.Sublimation and Alternative Art-Making
Izuannette specializes in sublimation techniques that help clients channel intense emotions into purposeful, constructive forms like drawing, painting, or writing. She finds innovative and alternative art-making processes, being creative with what is available to help facilitate change. This approach helps clients feel more in control of their emotional responses while transforming difficult emotions into creative expression.Gestalt and Self-Integration
Through Gestalt therapy techniques, Izuannette helps clients understand the parts of themselves that feel fragmented, disconnected, or stuck in patterns of self-criticism. She uses experiential techniques like the "empty chair" or role-playing to explore unresolved conflicts and integrate these parts with compassion and awareness, becoming more present to thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations in the moment.
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
— Aristotle