Studio Studio Art Therapy

06/07/2026

Saturday squish factory. 💜🌈

05/31/2026

✨ Did you know? ✨

I hold an ADHD-CCSP (Certified ADHD Clinical Services Provider) certification, which means I have specialized training to support ADHDers in exploring, understanding, and working with their unique brains using current, evidence-informed, neuroaffirming approaches.

Whether you're looking to better understand your strengths, challenges, executive functioning, sensory needs, relationships, or self-concept, I can help guide that process in an ethical and supportive way.

It's important to note that I am not a diagnosing professional and do not provide formal ADHD assessments or diagnoses. However, if you're seeking an assessment, those services are available through , the collaborative clinic where I practice alongside other professionals.

Understanding your brain can be a powerful step toward self-compassion, growth, and finding strategies that actually fit who you are. 💛

MentalHealth ExecutiveFunctioning ADHDCoach

05/31/2026

LalalalaLAHHH, I can't hear you. 🌈😋✨

05/28/2026

We need LESS regulation on library spaces that have always been and continue to be safe harbours for all people and MORE regulations on digital spaces that continue to operate like the Wild West, intentionally focused on harming our communities through the use of information. 📚

"Prior to Bill 28, local library boards set policies and guidelines that reflect community needs and values," said Ron Sheppard, Director of Parkland Regional Library System. "We are very concerned that Bill 28 allows local governance to be overridden by the Ministry of the day. This is a significant shift, and it's very troubling."

Help us stand up for local decision-making:
1. Visit CAPLibraries.ca and follow on social media
2. Sign-up for future updates on this important issue at CAPLibraries.ca
3. Visit your local library to show your support
4. Write to your local MLA and share your concerns about new regulations that could impact the operation and viability of public libraries

05/28/2026

POV: You're a millenial who endured ND burnout so long it redirected your career at 40… and now you create the neuroaffirming space for ND kids and families you needed growing up. 🌈⛅️

05/07/2026

How can I be more like water today? 🌊💧🌧️💦👁️

04/12/2026

✨🌱Art therapy is a lot like the therapy you already know, there's still talking, reflecting, making meaning, while building awareness.

But it's also proven to go places sometimes language can’t. Integrating your mind, body and spirit, Art Therapy lets you see your feelings, move them, shape them, and relate to them differently then you ever have before.

And, contrary to what you might think, you don't have to enjoy art regularly or be "good" at it, to use it as a tool for your mental wellness.

Art Therapy is evidence-based, and for everyone 🧠🌈✨🎨

04/12/2026

Art therapy is a lot like the therapy you already know, there's still talking, reflecting, making meaning, while building awareness.

But it's also proven to go places sometimes language can’t. Integrating your mind, body and spirit, Art Therapy lets you see your feelings, move them, shape them, and relate to them differently then you ever have before.

And, contrary to what you might think, you don't have to enjoy art regularly or be "good" at it, to use it as a tool for your mental wellness.

Art Therapy is evidence-based, and for everyone 🧠🌈✨🎨

02/19/2026

There’s a lot of talk right now about the “debunking” of Polyvagal Theory.

From what I’m seeing, much of the critique is not about whether the nervous system shifts into states of fight, flight, or shutdown. Those responses are well established in neuroscience 🧠 The debate is largely about the specific neurophysiological claims within the theory, particularly around vagal pathways and the evolutionary hierarchy, and whether those claims are as strongly supported by Stephen Porges' research as originally proposed.

That is an important scientific conversation 🔬

At the same time, in clinical spaces with children and families, Polyvagal Theory remains a profoundly useful framework.

While it's not a complete explanation of human behaviour.
It is a helpful framework for understanding the experience of oneself & others.

Here is why I'll continue to use it alongside attachment theory, developmental neuroscience, trauma research, and somatic approaches:

• It gives families shared language for nervous system states 🗣️
• It reduces shame by reframing behaviour as protection, not defiance
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• It supports co-regulation instead of control
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• It is accessible across ages, literacy levels, and neurotypes 🌎
• Clients consistently report that it helps them understand themselves and each other more clearly
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When a child can say, “I’m in shutdown,” instead of melting down in confusion, something shifts.

When a parent can think, “This is protection,” instead of “This is manipulation,” the relational field changes 🌱

Science evolves. Models get refined. That is healthy.

Using a framework responsibly, holding it lightly, not overstating its physiology, and integrating it with other evidence-based approaches is not anti-science. It is clinical humility.

We can engage in critical discourse and continue using tools that increase safety, compassion, and connection for the people and families we work with.

Both can be true 🤝

02/08/2026

Studio Studio is an Art Psychotherapy practice led by Professional Art Therapist Jeneatte Amarelo & located in Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo, AB.

Jeneatte is also a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Counselling Therapist, and Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, offering an arts-based space rooted in nervous system care, creativity, and connection.

Jeneatte’s work is polyvagal-informed and integrative. Arts-based personal exploration is gently reflected back through somatic awareness, DBT, and Narrative Therapy frameworks, alongside other supportive modalities when they best fit the unique needs of each person.

At its core, this is a place to slow down, create, and gently come back to yourself.

✨ Art as connection. Art as capacity. Art as care.