Online Art Therapy Workshop for Couples

Date & Time: 23rd August 2025 at 10 am EST

Use Creative Expression to Deepen Connection and Communication

Struggling to connect with your partner, or feeling stuck in patterns of miscommunication? You’re not alone.

Our free online art therapy workshop offers couples a gentle and creative way to explore emotions, rebuild intimacy, and express themselves in new ways, together.

This is a low-pressure space to co-create, reflect, and reconnect through guided activities. No artistic skill required. Just have fun and connect!

Why Try Art Therapy for Couples?

Art therapy has long been used to support relational healing and emotional growth. For couples, it offers a gentle, hands-on approach that:

  • Improves non-verbal communication

  • Increases emotional awareness and empathy

  • Reduces stress and defensiveness

  • Builds co-regulation and mutual presence

  • Encourages trust, curiosity, and shared meaning

A study on A Relational Approach to Art Therapy (Gerlitz, Regev, & Snir, 2020) found that joint art-making allowed couples to access difficult emotions and experience each other more fully in the moment. The relational framework helped deepen mutual understanding through shared creative expression, making space for vulnerability, empathy, and emotional repair in ways that traditional talk therapy may not always reach.

In Joint Painting and Relationship Patterns (Snir & Regev, 2013), researchers observed that couples who painted together experienced less tension and more synchrony.

By focusing less on “saying the right thing” and more on co-creating, couples can explore vulnerability, intimacy, and repair in ways that feel safe and embodied.

Who Is This Workshop For?

This space is for you if:

  • You and your partner want to deepen emotional connection and communication

  • You’ve struggled with feeling misunderstood, shut down, or stuck during conflict

  • You’re curious about exploring your relationship in a creative, non-judgmental way

  • You value mental health support that affirms identity, culture, and neurodiversity

  • You’re navigating the stress of everyday life, transitions, or past experiences together

  • You’re looking for a gentle first step into couples therapy or just want to reconnect intentionally

This workshop welcomes couples of all identities and backgrounds.

Meet Your Facilitators

Huey Tyan Chong (HT), LMHC

Associate Psychotherapist

HT is a licensed mental health counselor with over ten years of experience supporting adults, children, families, and couples through life’s transitions, challenges, and healing journeys. As a therapist of Asian descent, she brings a deeply relational and trauma-informed approach to care that honors each person’s story, culture, and resilience.

Her clinical focus includes anxiety, depression, substance use, cultural adjustment, family conflict, and complex relational dynamics. She has special interest in working with clients exploring identity, navigating intergenerational tension, or seeking more authentic connection in their lives.

HT draws from evidence-based approaches such as CBT, DBT, and family systems theory, while also integrating experiential and existential practices that help clients feel grounded and seen. She creates a safe and collaborative space for self-reflection, emotional expression, and meaningful change. Whether she’s working with an individual or a couple, HT helps clients build practical tools while reconnecting with their strengths, values, and inner wisdom.

Her presence is gentle and grounded, with a strong belief in therapy as a place to grow, repair, and reconnect with what matters most.

Yanyi Weng, MSW, LICSW

Founder, Clinical Director, and Psychotherapist

Yanyi is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and the founder of Dear Therapy. As a Taishanese Chinese immigrant raised in Boston’s Chinatown, Yanyi brings a deep commitment to community care, cultural responsiveness, and trauma-informed healing. Her specialties include anxiety, ADHD, racial identity, grief, sexuality, and mood-related concerns, with a focus on BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ clients.

With a background in psychodynamic and narrative therapy, Yanyi integrates humor, honesty, and creative practices into the therapeutic process. She believes in co-creating spaces where people can show up fully, unlearn internalized narratives, and build confidence in who they are. Her passion for improv stems from its power to soften social anxiety, nurture spontaneity, and help people access joy and presence in ways that traditional therapy sometimes can't.

Workshop Details

Workshop Length: 1.5 - 2 hours
Date: 23rd August 2025
Time: 10 am EST
Check-in Time for Tech: We’ll share this in your calendar invite before the session.

Participant Info

Who Can Join: 18 and older couples who can be in the same location, joining virtually.

Fee: Free Workshop

    • We’ll start with a short grounding and intro to set the tone and ease into the space together.

    • Learn how creative activities support emotional connection and communication, especially in relationships.

  • You’ll be guided through a simple art activity. Let’s have fun together!

    • Take time to connect with your partner, using optional prompts to reflect on your experience and what came up.

    • You’re welcome to stay muted or share. Hearing others’ reflections can be powerful, but participation is always optional.

    • We’ll end with final thoughts and ways to bring this connection into daily life. You’ll receive a small resource to keep.

  • Canvas, acrylic paints, brushes, water cups, paper towels.