Hi, my name is Masha,
I’m art therapist and suicideologist. I’m working on a field of supporting people by art making in life challenges situations such as loneliness, unemployment, lack of communication, burn out in creativity, searching for resources.
I studied art therapy and expressive arts in university of psychology in social sphere, graduated in 2022 year with diploma work about self-support through art making in a situation of a daily life stress. My research was based on loneliness and dealing with stress in Japanese society, as result of it I created a program of supporting Japanese people by learning and practicing self-regulation and art making.
I have friends in Japan who have problems and no energy to live, so I started to offer them help by art therapy sessions. Thanks to my friendship with Japanese people, I started love Japanese culture and feel a lot of empathy and sadness for the high suicide rate in Japan. In 2024 i got diploma in psychology and suicidology consultation in order to do my best for helping Japanese people and have hope that this situation can be changed.
Also I'm found of Korean pop music and drama movies and study korean language that inspired me to get an idea of using k-pop artists and korean actors images in art therapy. I call that k-pop therapy and trying to develop it nowadays.
I continue learning stories of loneliness and being unemployed from people all over the world, and it makes me search for the new ideas of integration of different arts into a process of supportive art making, because I feel that everyone could find a suitable modality that will work best for each personality. That’s why my approach is individual, I believe that together we could find a special way of art making for everyone.
Another subject of my interest is supporting sensitive people during burn out and loosing inspiration for creativity. I know how easy to lose energy and stop to keep doing art. Nowadays, that’s a huge problem, but we can overcome it and back to creative life, full of inner forces.
Every month I’m making research of different arts potential for art therapy and expressive arts, I hope that will work for development and prosperity of these areas in social sphere. Please visit page “Researches & analyzes” or my YouTube channel for getting more information.
Please contact me if you need support of well-being by a process of art making or interested in my work.
