Cher Curshen founded Bigheart Integrative Arts Therapy Studio in 2001, a centre for self exploration and holistic healing located in downtown Toronto. There she enjoys general private practice that includes; Holistic Trauma Healing, one:one therapy, and group workshops in addition to Integrative Wellness Arts Retreats in Costa Rica. 

Cher is a calm, loving yet playful Expressive Arts Therapist. She trained extensively at ISIS Canada and The Traumatology Institute (Canada), and is a member of the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counselors, Psychotherapists and Psychometrists (OACCPP).  Although talk therapy is common when visiting Cher she encourages creative expression within a variety of art modalities that include; visual arts, music, poetry, writing and story telling using narrative therapy techniques and movement.  In addition, she is available for Holistic Trauma Healing involving a variety of approaches that calm, empower and provide a tool kit for those experiencing living with the effects of trauma. 

Cher utilizes creative arts and solution focused trauma therapy technicques in a gentle, sensitive and active way.  She believes that art is a healing agent that works from within and enjoys living her life through creativity. 

She has provided her services at a number of community agencies since her career began as resident arts therapist with Toronto’s Ronald McDonald House. She has developed and facilitated various arts based group programs with  the following agencies; Sherbourne Health Centre, Gilda’s Club, Wellspring, ACT, Casey House Hospice, Toronto Hospice, Hazel Burns Hospice, Alzheimer Society,Native Child And Family Services, Bereaved Families Of Ontario, The Sexual Assualt Centre of Leeds and Grenville, Rexdale Community Health Centre and presently works at The Dorothy Ley Hospice as their Integrative Wellness Coordinator.

For a number of years it has been Cher’s goal to offer a wellness retreat that includes a fully holistic approach to wellness providing what our bodies and spirits need most: relaxation, revitalization and a chance to heal from the intensity of our daily routines. Cher is very happy and excited at this now becoming a reality with her first – and not last – retreat offering in February 2013 in paradise -  Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica!  

To continue your journey with us, after visiting our pages, begin your investment in yourself and your future well-being by connecting with Cher through the contact page or by calling her at: 416-888-8852 or emailing at: cher@bigheartstudio.com .
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We look forward to seeing you, when and where is up to you!   

Cher

This Writing Circle includes a variety of writing activities designed to encourage and stimulate you to tap into your creative power as you experience numerous guided imagery techniques that draws your writing out from a place deep inside - disturbing the comfortable – conscious and unconscious.