Art therapy can help people to resolve conflicts, improve interpersonal skills, manage problematic behaviors, reduce negative stress, and achieve personal insight. Art therapy also provides an opportunity to enjoy the life-affirming pleasures of art making.
- American Art Therapy Association

Psychotherapy ✦ Coaching Consulting ✦ Workshops

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ABOUT ME

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Zadé Helena Landegger (they/them/siya) is a non-binary artist, mental health advocate, and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist with over a decade of experience working at the intersection of mental health, social justice, and community arts. They specialize in trauma-informed care, social-emotional learning curriculum design, and culturally responsive practices for people impacted by systems of oppression. Their work often supports QTBIPOC individuals navigating transitions, families of immigrants, adoptees, multicultural or racially-mixed communities, people with disabilities or chronic illnesses, and those experiencing grief, depression, anxiety, or trauma.

Zadé Helena currently serves as a Teaching Artist with A Reason To Survive (ARTS), and as a Creative Arts Therapist providing individual and family psychotherapy through their private practice, ZAHABI Creative Arts Therapy, as well as through Footprints Mental Health Counseling, a NYC-based clinic.

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consulting, coaching, & curriculum design

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support rooted in compassion ✦ creative arts therapy for every stage of life ✦ consulting, coaching, & curriculum design ✦

WHY ART THERAPY?

Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy that blends talk therapy with the power of creative expression. Through art-making, metaphor, and storytelling, you are supported to discover new ways of understanding yourself and your experiences—building a greater sense of self-agency and compassion along the way.

In session, the act of creating becomes a way to synthesize experience, trauma, and emotion into something transformative. You don’t need to be an artist or have any prior art experience—everyone is welcome, and there is no “wrong” way to make art. Sometimes, the art itself can unlock expressive needs we didn’t know we had, offering a voice to parts of ourselves that have long been waiting to speak.

Services ✦ Offerings

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    Psychology Consulting + Curriculum Design

    Transform your programs with trauma-informed, culturally responsive mental health solutions. I help schools and organizations design curricula and systems that foster emotional wellness, creativity, and social justice.

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    Psychotherapy

    Discover therapy that meets you where you are. Through talk, art, and creative expression, we work together to navigate transitions, process emotions, and build resilience—helping you feel more empowered in your own life.

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    Creative Coaching

    Discover the power of your own creativity with personalized coaching. Through guided projects, reflective practices, and strategies (informed by creative arts therapy, offering catharsis and self-awareness through the act of creation), you’ll unlock new ways to express, reflect, and grow.

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    Workshops

    Engaging, hands-on workshops for youth, adults, and organizations. From arts integration to emotional literacy, I design experiences that inspire connection, learning, and self-expression.

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  • “Art is so absent from our time now. The hunger for art therapy is partly the absence of art as a natural element of daily living. We are surrounded by objects that are machine made that don’t tell us anything about the maker, or anything about the worldview of that person.”

    —Edith Kramer, Early Cultivator of Art Therapy

  • “The expressive arts have a unique role in restoring a sense of vitality and joy in traumatized individuals because aliveness is not something we can be ‘talked into.’ Instead, it is experienced in both mind and body and particularly on a somatosensory level.”

    —Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC, LPAT, REAT

  • “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way — things I had no words for.”

    —Margaret Naumburg, Early Cultivator of Art Therapy

  • “Clinical art therapy can be effective for adolescents who usually see it as a nonthreatening form of treatment.”

    —Shirley Riley, ATR, HLM

  • "Art is the meeting ground of the world inside and the world outside."

    —Elinor Ulman (D.A.T., A.T.R., HLM)

Art therapy uses art-making and play to offer psychosocial care, by helping people reconcile emotional or psychological conflicts and foster personal growth through increased self-awareness.


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✦ Zahabi Creative Arts Therapy ✦

is named for the Arabic word “zahabi” meaning golden and the Tagalog word “habi” which translates to weave. Together they evoke an image of a golden weave — a symbol of the luminous threads of connection that bind us in healing, art, and community.

CONNECT WITH ME ✦

Your story, your art, your growth. In this free 15-minute call, we’ll explore what you’re looking for and find the best way to work together.

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