Art Therapy + DBT for Teens, Families & Adults in Raleigh–Durham, NCCreative, evidence-informed therapy using Art Therapy and DBT for adolescents, families, and adults in the Raleigh–Durham area. Individual, family, couples & group options.
I'm a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and Registered Art Therapist (ATR) with 20 years of experience across inpatient, oncology, eating disorder, college counseling, and outpatient settings. I blend expressive art-making with psychotherapy to create a supportive, creative, and pragmatic therapy experience.
My work focuses on integrating creative + talk therapy integration—especially for adolescents & families—helping clients access emotion, develop insight, and build practical coping skills. I offer individual, family, couples, group therapy with a focus on DBT-informed skills and trauma-informed expressive approaches. (20000+ sessions noted in intake form).
I aim to create a safe, trusting relationship where creative activity and conversation produce new awareness and change. I have continued membership and clinical affiliation with professional associations in Art Therapy and Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
LCMHC (NC) & ATR, 20 years clinical practice across inpatient, oncology, eating disorder, college counseling, and outpatient settings.
LCMHC (Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor), ATR (Registered Art Therapist)
Expressive (art) therapy integrated with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for adolescents, families, individuals, and ...
Children, Adolescents (teens), College students, Adults, Families, Groups, emphasis on adolescents and college students....
Art Therapy, DBT, Trauma-informed expressive approaches, Group Therapy
Recognized and trusted across leading platforms and honored for excellence in care.
Everyone’s path is different, and my role is to walk alongside you with care, offering support that fits your unique needs.
Life's pressures can leave you drained. Therapy offers space to pause, be heard, and refocus on your goals. Over time, you'll gain tools and confidence to handle challenges with clarity and calm.
Art therapy uses collaborative creative processes to help clients express emotions, gain insight, and foster developmental growth—especially effective with children, adolescents, and clients who find verbal expression difficult.
A program integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training (mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness) with art-based practice to make DBT concepts concrete and experiential.
Therapy tailored for adolescents using art-based and process-oriented interventions—focused on identity, peer stress, emotional regulation, and family communication.
Family system work using structured interventions and collaborative art-making to surface strengths, clarify roles, and repair communication patterns.
Set healthier boundaries, process old wounds, and learn practical strategies for everyday challenges. Therapy offers insight, support, and skills to address depression, anxiety, conflict, grief, stress-management, and life transitions.
Dedicated to helping clients overcome challenges and achieve emotional well-being
Every session is rooted in care, empathy, and expertise, ensuring a safe space for growth and transformation
👉 Tap & Hold to Stop
Mr. Elman is thoughtful, considerate, and extremely kind and compassionate. I certainly recommend him and his services.
👉 Tap & Hold to Stop
Andrew is a warm and accepting therapist with a unique set of skills to help his clients in many ways. He will work hard to help you navigate any challenges bringing you to therapy.
Insights on therapy, relationships, and the lifelong work of healing and growth, drawn from my experience with individuals, couples, and groups in Raleigh • Durham • Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
“…it is possible for thought-processes to become conscious through a reversion to visual residues [and] in many people, this seems to be a favorite method…Thinking in pictures…approximates more closely to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and Phylogenetically.”
