Known for her bold, colourful florals, Toronto artist Catherine Cameron creates joyful paintings inspired by resilience, hope and the transformative power of colour.
Therapeutic Art Practice: a creative, trauma-informed practice using guided artistic expression to support emotional exploration and wellbeing.
About the practice:
Catherine is a certified Art Therapy Practitioner who integrates training in therapeutic arts, trauma-informed practice, and psychology with a professional background in communications, negotiation, mediation, and conflict resolution.
Her work is grounded in a trauma-informed, person-centred approach that prioritizes emotional safety, consent, and respect for individual pace and readiness.
She offers individual and group sessions that use creative expression as a way to support emotional awareness, reflection, and personal growth through art.
Therapeutic Arts Practice:
Art can provide a meaningful and accessible way to explore emotions, reduce stress, and develop a deeper connection to self.
Through guided creative processes, clients may experience:
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increased emotional awareness and expression
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reduced stress and anxiety
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improved mood and self-confidence
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greater presence and grounding
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strengthened resilience and coping skills
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enhanced overall well-being
Areas of Focus:
Catherine supports individuals and groups across a wide range of experiences, including:
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anxiety, depression, and burnout
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grief and bereavement
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trauma and emotional distress
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life transitions
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ADHD and autism (youth and adults)
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chronic illness and pain
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communication and relationship challenges
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developmental differences
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isolation, aging, and end-of-life experiences
Sessions & Location:
Individual sessions (60-90 minutes) are available in Toronto, either in a private setting or at an agreed location within the city. Group facilitation is also available.
For Victims and Survivors
Catherine supports victims and survivors in expressing and shaping their lived experiences through visual art, writing, and guided narrative work at a pace that feels safe and appropriate. This process can help give form to lived experience in a way that is clear, grounded, and anchored in your own voice and sense of agency.
This work may support personal reflection and meaning-making, communication with trusted family members, contributions to broader conversations of healing and awareness, or preparation for legal or advocacy contexts where it is important to be understood more fully. In some cases, this process becomes a legacy project: an intentional body of work that preserves lived experience, affirms truth, and creates space for others to feel seen, supported, and less alone.
The BR Pilot Project—Bearing Witness. Reclaiming Truth
The BR Pilot Project supports victims and survivors in shaping and expressing their lived experiences through art, narrative, and legacy-based creative work.
It is grounded in the principles of bearing witness to harm and reclaiming personal truth in ways that support clarity, healing, advocacy, and accountability.
The project helps participants articulate their stories for themselves, and where appropriate, for trusted others, legal counsel, community contexts, or future documentation
Podcast:
Art As Healing: Catherine Cameron on Creativity and Transformation.
Listen here.
