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About Expressive Wellness
About Expressive Wellness
Expressive Wellness was created by music therapist Kate Beever and art therapist Bodhi Simpson to bring creative, experiential approaches to wellness, education, and professional development.
Drawing from our backgrounds in music therapy, art therapy, mental health, healthcare, and education, we design workshops, trainings, and retreats that invite people to learn through experience. Our programs combine research and practical information with opportunities for creativity, reflection, mindfulness, and connection.
We believe meaningful creative experiences can be accessible to everyone—no artistic or musical experience required.
Kate Beever, MA, MT-BC
Kate Beever, MA, MT-BC
Kate Beever is a board-certified music therapist, educator, musician, and entrepreneur who has spent fifteen years working at the intersection of music and healthcare. Her clinical experience spans oncology, neurology, psychiatry, developmental disabilities, aging and memory care, and other medical and community settings. Through her company, Maine Music & Health, Kate has developed music therapy programs throughout Maine and has worked extensively within hospital and interdisciplinary healthcare settings.
Kate is also an educator and researcher with a particular interest in music, the brain, and whole-person healthcare. She currently teaches at Berklee College of Music, the University of Southern Maine, and Maine College of Art & Design, and has served as an instructor and practitioner-in-residence at Bates College. Her hospital-based research has explored music therapy in oncology and geriatric psychiatry as well as arts-based approaches for young people with sickle cell disease.
A lifelong percussionist and active performer, Kate brings her identities as clinician, educator, and musician together in her work with Expressive Wellness. She especially enjoys creating experiences that make research and creative practice approachable, experiential, and relevant to participants' own lives and work.
Bodhi Simpson, PhD, LCPC, ATR
Bodhi Simpson, PhD, LCPC, ATR
Bodhi Simpson is a licensed clinical professional counselor, registered art therapist, educator, and artist with more than twenty years of experience working with people of all ages. She is an Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she teaches in the Master’s in Counseling Psychology program with an emphasis in the creative arts. She also maintains a private practice and provides workshops and professional education for clinicians interested in ethically incorporating creative expression into their work.
Bodhi’s approach integrates art-making, imagination, mindfulness, story, myth, and connection with the natural world. She is particularly interested in making creative expression accessible to people regardless of artistic experience and in helping participants use the creative process to deepen self-awareness, reflection, and connection.
In addition to her clinical and teaching work, Bodhi is a practicing visual artist, author, and illustrator. Through Expressive Wellness, she brings together her experience as a therapist, educator, and artist to create experiential workshops, trainings, and retreats that encourage curiosity, creativity, connection, and meaningful reflection.
Kate and Bodhi also maintain independent professional practices.
Learn more about their individual work through the links in their bios above.
Why Art and Music?
Why Art and Music?
Art and music offer different—and complementary—ways to explore, express, connect, and learn. They can invite us to engage with ideas and experiences that may be difficult to access through words alone, while creating opportunities for curiosity, play, reflection, and connection.
At Expressive Wellness, we bring our backgrounds in art therapy and music therapy together to create experiences that engage participants in multiple ways. Depending on the group and the goals of the program, an experience might include music-making or listening, visual art, writing, mindfulness, movement, discussion, or reflection. No artistic or musical experience is necessary—there is no “right” way to participate or create.
Our workshops, trainings, and wellness experiences are informed by our clinical backgrounds, but not every Expressive Wellness program is therapy. We distinguish between clinical work and educational or wellness-based experiences and design each program with its particular setting, participants, and purpose in mind.
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