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While I am working with clients, I like to move between these two “brains’ to connect with and explore whatever enters the space, always trying to nurture what comes up, what pushes back, and what feels right to them. I love meeting new people and working with them to better themselves and feel confident to take on whatever life brings. I feel grateful to work with kids, adolescents and adults alike and help guide them along their journeys using art, play and narration. I utilize existential, attachment and person-centered approaches to therapy, but truly creating safe spaces for individuals to feel heard and seen is what is most important to me. Along with art making, I love being outside in nature, growing, cooking and eating good food, and practicing somatic movement, always trying to introduce and incorporate these practices with my clients as well.

Amber Burns

MS, ATR

Art Therapist

There have been two aspects of myself which I have always known: the need creative, and the desire to care for others. The two traits led me to art therapy, even before I knew what it was. While studying studio arts, I became interested in psychology and an advisor informed my that his mother was an art therapist. My path was forever changed from that moment on.

To me, art making is self-expression, it is comfort, connection, and a way to make meaning of the world around us. I have used art throughout my life to explore, address, and express various experiences, positive and negative. Life is not always kind or easy, and when my thinking brain becomes too loud, sometimes I need to focus more on my feeling brain, feeding that need to be creative.