Art Therapist
XRISTINA MOSCHAKI
Art Therapy with ♥
Amancaya Xristina
Painter and Art Therapist. My approach during the individual and group sessions is theoretically influenced by the teachings of Karl Gustav Jung, Melanie Klein, Irvin Yalom and is equally enriched by the different places around the world where I have lived: Mexico, England, Bolivia, Colombia, Canada, India and Greece. Art activates the non-verbal part of the self, retrieves images and symbols from the unconscious, renews the neurological synapses, enriching our existence.
Let’s get to know each other
I am Xristina Moschaki, Psychodynamic Art Therapist in Athens.
I am always moved by how art can in an instant bring relief to the human spirit; it is more than just expression, it is a human need that connects us to our inner truth and wisdom. Art is empowering, easily accessible, and helps us in our quest of our deepest desires. Art can reach the heart in a respectful and safe manner when words are not enough.
The therapy sessions (Individual Art Therapy, Group Art Therapy, Online Art Therapy, Art Therapy Walks ) I provide respect the rhythm, the needs, the request and the diversity of each individual.
In addition to my usual art therapy sessions, I do Art Therapy for people with very different personal life stories and cultural backgrounds, such as refugees who have deep traumas, but also plenty lessons of strength and resilience. In the summer I am travelling to Antwerp, in Belgium, on a program funded by the European Union, to do group art therapy (Art Therapy) in a community of people with social and economic challenges.
The art book “BIRTH AS YOU PLEASE”
by Amancaya Xristina
Twenty-one mothers, women who gave birth, from different corners of the world (Canada, USA, Bolivia, Russia, Brazil, Belgium, France, Greece), joined their voices in the book “Birth As You Please” and shared their birth stories to inspire, empower and support the right to choose how, where, when and with whom to give birth. A book where the diversity of the birthgiving experience is depicted through colors and words and where art becomes the medium that elevates human existence and captures the essence of motherhood.
News, Events, Therapy Sessions & Seminars
In Group Art Therapy, we relate to other members, we create, we interact, we learn to respect the limits and needs of each one in the group as well as our personal limits and needs. What is experienced in the here and now within the group is a microcosm of behaviors and mental processes originating from the important relationships of our life.
Morning Open Group Art Therapy
Every Tuesday 10:00-11:30 in Ano Glyfada
In Group Art Therapy, we relate to other members, we create, we interact, we learn to respect the limits and needs of each one in the group as well as our personal limits and needs. What is experienced in the here and now within the group is a microcosm of behaviors and mental processes originating from the important relationships of our life.
The Heart & Art therapy program allows a space for healing through creative interaction and exploration.
The emphasis is on emergence, expression and self-awareness.The main idea of this collaboration is to interact with the communities in the Kiosk network and share tools for creative expression through art therapy, group workshops and close with an art exhibition of all the creations made.
group art therapy
Art Healing Community
In collaboration with The Kiosk, Belgium. In mid-June 2024 and for three whole weeks, Amancaya Xristina travelled from Athens to Antwerp thanks to a cultural mobility grant from the Creative Europe program. #culturemoveseurope #CreativeEurope #culturalmobilitygrant #pushboundaries
The Group Art Therapy Programme Heart & Art for women is an invitation to create a new space of interaction and exploration where women from different paths of life meet, create and exchange, using different artistic expressions. The same workshops have already been held in Canada, Bolivia and Greece. This Art program is designed in such a way that it respects the cultural and social diversity.
WORKSHOPS Heart & ART Therapy
Group Art Therapy for Women
There are nine workshops in the Heart & Art program with a wide range of creative approaches (painting, clay, collage, dance, theatre). The focus is always on community, self-expression and self–awareness.
Painting or theater skills are not a necessary prerequisite in order to participate in the workshops.
If you live in or pass through Athens and want to experience the city’s past in the present, the art therapy walks are transformative.
Art Therapy Walks
In historical sites of Athens
Creating art in the open air and walking around historical sited like Filopappou, Acropolis, Ancient Agora, Plaka, is an unforgettable life experience and a unique form of art therapy.
Painting or drama skills are not a necessary prerequisite in order to participate in the art therapy walks
The Book Birth As You Please
As a visual artist I found in my motherhood journey the inspiration to contribute to the higher cause of motherhood. I wrote “Birth As You Please”, a visual art book of birth stories, because I felt an urgent need to add ideas, creativity and research on the dialogue around the world how birth can become more humane and how women, people who give birth in many different cultures, can inspire each other to rediscover their life-giving capabilities.
Art Therapy
Art is more than just expression, it is a human need that connects us to our inner truth and wisdom. Art can reach the heart in a respectful and safe manner when words are not enough.
EXPERIENCE ART THERAPY
I started painting when I was living in the country of my favorite painter Frida Kahlo, in Mexico. I realized over time that painting was my way to quiet the mind and to connect with my authentic self.
In the last ten years, my experience in group and individual art therapy in various parts of the world together with my studies in Art Therapy at the Hellenic Art Therapy Center, frame my therapeutic person-centered and non-directive approach.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles, News, Videos and Photo Collections about Art Therapy, Heart & Art action for refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants, as well as about the book “Birth As You Please by Amancaya Xristina”.
Trust Heart ♥ & ART Therapy
Creation
With my hands and my whole body as a creative guide I connect with the unconscious and retrieve my images and symbols; I interpret them physically, mentally, psychically and emotionally and enrich my sense of self.
Self knowledge
I shed light on my inner world, discover and accept my unexplored aspects. I go into the source of my relational, emotional and behavioral patterns and transform them.
Relationships
I understand my personal life story in relation to the others and my loved ones, I strengthen the way of coexistence through the acceptance of myself and the diverse ways of being.