Creative Direction, Production, Filming, Editing

How do you find healing when you struggle to put words to your emotions? Learn how experiences, from art therapy to fly fishing, can help people engage in all their senses to feel their emotions, and why experiential therapy is at the core of the Embark Treatment Approach.

When working with clinicians, I would frequently hear phrases like “feel your feelings in your body” and my first thought was, “Ok, but how?”

Contrary to popular thought, healing from trauma is very rarely as simple as thinking different thoughts or identifying cognitive distortions. I wanted to help the families that Embark serves understand what it means when their therapist says “experiential.”

To do this, I interviewed a seasoned clinician about experiential therapy, and used footage from the Embark asset library that I established to illustrate her talking points. Some of the footage, such as the art therapy and sensory bouquet building exercise was filmed by me, some was filmed by freelancers I partnered with, such as the equine therapy and bike riding sequences. The fly-fishing example was so great, but we didn’t have any footage in our catelog to showcase it properly, so I pulled some footage from Adobe Stock.