Arshin Agashteh is an art therapist and psychotherapist who works with children, adolescents, and adults through a creative, relational, and reflective lens. With academic training in Clinical Psychology, Fine Art, and Art Therapy, she approaches the therapeutic space as a living field where images, sensations, and inner narratives find their way into expression long before words fully arrive. She completed her bachelors degree in clinical psychology in Iran, followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a masters degree in visual Art. Arshin later pursued professional training in Art Therapy at the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute (KATI), where her clinical approach grew alongside her long engagement with artistic practice.
Arshin trusts in creativity as a natural human capacity that helps us see differently, feel more deeply, and shift our relationship with ourselves and with others. She believes that when individuals enter creative processes beyond habit and expectation, subtle yet transformative shifts become possible. In her therapeutic work, imagination becomes an active doorway to insight, integration, and new understanding. She works with various creative media, somatic awareness, and gentle reflection, supporting clients in exploring difficult emotions, reconnecting with inner resources, and moving at a pace that feels grounded and safe. In her work with adults, she also integrates dream work, inviting symbolic imagery to unfold through art, dialogue, and embodied awareness. This allows unconscious layers of experience to appear with clarity, depth, and compassion. Her approach is client centred, culturally responsive, and rooted in respect, curiosity, and relational presence. Arshin views every person as carrying a unique symbolic landscape, a world of images shaped by culture, memory, imagination, and lived experience. Within the therapeutic space, these symbols become a way for clients to express their truth and feel genuinely seen and understood.
Rapinder Kaur is particularly drawn to the concept of individual empowerment and how this process can lead to collective change. A Registered Psychotherapist and Art Therapist, activist and facilitator, she is fascinated with the idea of using art to disrupt traditional thinking and imagining new possibilities for engaging in the world. Her journey in the mental health field began at a very young age, when she would relish listening to her caregivers talk about the intricacies of the mind, its incredible power and during this time learnt ways in which she could understand her own mind. Her curiosity for the inner workings of the mind and her love for art and creativity led her on an interesting journey, during which she studied psychology, history of ideas and then Art Therapy. She graduated from Kingston University in England and the Toronto Art Therapy Institute in Toronto Canada. Rapinder strongly believes that art has the potential to change lives and often in profound ways. When words are not enough, people can turn to images and symbols to tell their story and in telling their stories through art, they can find a path to health and wellness, emotional reparation, recovery, and ultimately, transformation.
