Gracelynn Lau, PhD, is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) specialized in expressive arts therapy, and has recently completed her doctoral in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University, Canada, Gracelynn’s research focus on integrating creative writing, critical autoethnography and expressive arts therapy as a “critical/therapeutic inquiry” method in community-based inquiry and in education.
Based in the unceded Coast Salish territories, Gracelynn’s therapeutic practice focuses on walking alongside people to revitalizing their innate imagination and growing capacity to respond to uncertainty, discomfort and conflicts. Over the last 6 years, she has collaborated with ecovillages, grassroots organizations, art galleries, and peacemaking initiatives to curate participatory spaces for decolonization, healing social trauma, and peacemaking.
critical/therapeutic inquiry
a 6-session journey through integrated expressive arts therapy and critical autoethnography to face the complicities and gifts in your lineages, building capacities to embody and imagine decolonial changes.
research +
publication
my recent research projects, publications, and presentations related to expressive arts therapy, decolonization, performative writing, arts-based research and collective healing.
imagination care in uncertain time
how do you care for your imagination? In the interim time of uncertainty, witnessing and experiencing pain and grief across the world, are you able to honour and hold both brokenness and beauty? 1-on-1 care session to grow capacity and rekindle imagination.
“Clarity arrives when we get out of our own way.”
gracelynn lau
Navigating despair, burnt out, systemic grief? Dealing with racialized trauma or settler identity? Let’s get together and find out how can I walk alongside you through the art-oriented inquiry.
Testimonial
Romy Logsch:
“In my first session I was stiff, insecure and very much in my head. Gracelynn help me to get more and more into my body through movements. My body became the instrument of my expression of what is emerging inside and I started listening to what’s inside moving away from thinking and words. I was invited to use everything but words – where language cause the barrier and this journey starts. That unique process gave me some aha-moments and answers which I did not expect and wouldn’t be able to get through thinking. Something was sparked within me since that very first journey – to discover and explore through creativity in different kind of arts. Thank you Gracelynn for inviting and guiding me on those trips. The souvenirs I got are life changing and last forever. I Vote expressive arts as a subject in school!”
Email: gracelynn.lau@queensu.ca
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