Art-Oriented Mental Health Care
Molly McGregor: Registered Social Worker
About
Molly McGregor is a puppeteer, writer and social worker living in Toronto, ON.
Molly holds a degree in Anti-Oppressive Social Work from Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto ON.
Molly’s artistic-healing training is based in theatre cultivated through the Theatre for Development Program at Concordia University, Montreal QC
with additional training with Bread and Puppet Theatre VT, USA.
Molly has been the artistic director of the Whalebone Collective for the past 8 years
The collective consists of survivors of psychiatric institutionalization and creates large and small puppet plays performing narratives based on perspectives on healing.
Molly holds a degree in Anti-Oppressive Social Work from Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto ON.
Molly’s artistic-healing training is based in theatre cultivated through the Theatre for Development Program at Concordia University, Montreal QC
with additional training with Bread and Puppet Theatre VT, USA.
Molly has been the artistic director of the Whalebone Collective for the past 8 years
The collective consists of survivors of psychiatric institutionalization and creates large and small puppet plays performing narratives based on perspectives on healing.
A Different Perspective
Molly’s work as a mental health worker stems from lived experience as an individual who has lived thorugh two episodes of bipolar-psychosis. Molly belives in a consumer-survivor mentalility centering mad-pride pedogy at the core of her work. Molly uses aspects of peer-support and self-disclosure to offer insight into a holistic approach in mental health recovery. This personal background in combination with years of frontline work and 1:1 counselling ensures that in sessions challenges are articulated and moved through with a deeper compassion and understanding, and knowing that we can all heal.
“I believe that our illness are more than a weakness, I mean it has to be. I believe that our mental health has the ability to become our super power. For example, a person living with mental illness has a truly rare and beautiful sense of compassion which I have seen time and time again activated to support other individuals who are suffering. Our ability to feel deeply is our gift in a world that has gone numb”.
-Molly McGregor in conversation on healing, 2023.
“I believe that our illness are more than a weakness, I mean it has to be. I believe that our mental health has the ability to become our super power. For example, a person living with mental illness has a truly rare and beautiful sense of compassion which I have seen time and time again activated to support other individuals who are suffering. Our ability to feel deeply is our gift in a world that has gone numb”.
-Molly McGregor in conversation on healing, 2023.
Holsistic Referrals
The collaborative referral system is designed for individuals recovering from various types of mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression and psychosis-recovery.
Molly offers integrative-healing referrals such as services in energy work and herbalism.
This referral work can be helpful when designing a holistic approach to mental health care, taking care of all the aspects of an individual in terms of body, heart and soul.
Molly offers integrative-healing referrals such as services in energy work and herbalism.
This referral work can be helpful when designing a holistic approach to mental health care, taking care of all the aspects of an individual in terms of body, heart and soul.
Session Information
Working in healing from mental health work the sessions are designed through Narrative Therapy through a Strengths-Based approach.
Using these methodologies the sessions provide creative-based healing practices through 1:1 support.
The sessions use creative techniques found in Drama and Expressive Art Therapy in combination with a structural perspective. The sessions are client centered and lead by their healing prerogative.
Sessions are 1 hour in length and seek to offer support in healing in self-actualization with a specialization in psychosis recovery, ADHD, depression, anxiety, feeling stuck. Molly specializes in how mental health can create creative blocks in our artistic process and how to move through them.
Through a Trauma-Informed practice the sessions are Client-Centered and supported through an Empowerment lens.
Sessions are available in person in a studio
in Toronto's West end, and when the weather's beautiful, in the garden.
Fee: $150
Sliding scale available upon request
Molly is a registered social worker, you can further find her work on the accredited website Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/therapists/molly-mcgregor-toronto-on/1315595
Using these methodologies the sessions provide creative-based healing practices through 1:1 support.
The sessions use creative techniques found in Drama and Expressive Art Therapy in combination with a structural perspective. The sessions are client centered and lead by their healing prerogative.
Sessions are 1 hour in length and seek to offer support in healing in self-actualization with a specialization in psychosis recovery, ADHD, depression, anxiety, feeling stuck. Molly specializes in how mental health can create creative blocks in our artistic process and how to move through them.
Through a Trauma-Informed practice the sessions are Client-Centered and supported through an Empowerment lens.
Sessions are available in person in a studio
in Toronto's West end, and when the weather's beautiful, in the garden.
Fee: $150
Sliding scale available upon request
Molly is a registered social worker, you can further find her work on the accredited website Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/therapists/molly-mcgregor-toronto-on/1315595
Thank you
Contact
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- +1-6479972545
- molly.b.mcgregor@gmail.com
- Mon-Fri - 08:00-19:00
Feel free to in touch for commissioned writing, puppet creation, 1:1 support for show development and dramaturgy