Curiosity Creativity Compassion
Crescent can bing you opportunities to learn more about your self, heal and grow through creativity.
Expressive art therapy can be beneficial for anyone, children or adults, who is seeking to bring more ease, solution and freedom, happiness to their lives.
Art Therapy
The most important feature of art therapy is its ability to help express a state of mind that cannot be put into words. It is a proven and successful process of self-discovery, stress-relief, and problem-solving for all people, including children, people with illnesses or disabilities, the elderly, and those who believe they have difficulty expressing themselves verbally.
Art Studio
The studio experience brings you an opportunity to express yourself freely without restrictions or evaluation. The purpose of the studio is not to learn skills and techniques, but to release feelings through expression, develop sensitivity, enhance imagination, nurture the ability to recognize oneself, to develop self-esteem, and develop communicative and social skills. Individuals as well as family members and groups of friends can participate. Each Session is tailored to meet the appropriate age and needs of the participants.
Workshop
We offer affordable group therapy, creative workshops and activities at schools, community centers, care center, retirement homes, and more. If you are interested in art therapy, it is a great way to get a taste of it. Please contact me or sign up to receive emails about upcoming workshops. Some group sessions and workshop will be scheduled and posted on this site and FB/Instagram near future.
Crescent
The crescent moon symbolizes intention, hope, and desire to embrace, as it shows a narrow light just after the new moon.
The waxing and waning moon is a symbol of constant change. Light and shadow, life and death, the ebb and flow of the tides. It symbolizes the blindness and drive of nature, the changing seasons and the return of the seasons.
Our goal is to support people to live healthier and better lives through our creative services.
“Art therapy allowed me to express my inner world in the form of “artwork”. By creating a work of art, I could show my feelings to others and share with them, and I had an opportunity to look at my state of mind objectively.”
– Group Art therapy participant
About the therapist
Misako Inaoka is an artist and a licensed art therapist working in the Kyoto /Shiga area, Japan. She has lived in the United States and Italy, holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the states, an Art Therapy License accredited by the Cabinet Office of Japan, and a child counseling certificate by JADPA (Japanese Ability Development Promotion Association). She combines counseling with creativity and mindfulness to create unique and supportive experience.
To learn more about her work
visit the artist site at
