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La Renaissance, meaning rebirth, reflects both the inspiration behind the name of this practice and its understanding of therapeutic change as a process of transformation and renewal. Drawing from the Renaissance era—a historical moment of regeneration following profound disruption—this approach views healing not as the erasure of the past, but as the shaping of meaning through experience. Through psychotherapy and art therapy, lived experiences, emotional challenges, and psychological patterns—including unconscious processes, internal conflicts, and relational dynamics—are given form and explored symbolically.
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Art Therapy
Artistic expression becomes a medium through which what is difficult to articulate verbally may emerge, allowing inner experience to be seen, reflected upon, and re-understood. In this way, art therapy serves as a bridge between inner experience and action, supporting insight, integration, and personal agency.
Group Therapy
Group therapy’s effectiveness lies in its ability to help you find connections with other people and their experiences. These therapist-guided sessions will help you learn more about yourself and how to improve the way you feel while feeling support from others who understand your experience.
About Nadine Abi Jaber, MA, ATR, CGP
Nadine Abi Jaber, MA, ATR, CGP, is a multilingual Art therapist and psychotherapist with extensive experience in trauma-informed and psychodynamic work. Her clinical background includes individual and group psychotherapy across medical, military, community, and private practice settings.
Nadine offers a collaborative therapeutic space that respects each client’s emotional world, cultural background, and pace. Drawing from art therapy, object relations theory, and group analytic thinking, she works with both verbal and nonverbal processes to explore unconscious patterns, relational dynamics, and lived experience.
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In-person sessions in Herndon, Virginia
In-person sessions in Fairfax, VA
Specializes in Art Therapy and Group Therapy
Works with Children, Teens, & Adults
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” — Carl Jung
This depth-oriented approach supports greater emotional understanding and psychological integration in the present. Engaging in this kind of therapy can be challenging, particularly when working with trauma or long-standing relational patterns. Over time, however, the process can foster a deeper sense of self, increased emotional flexibility, and a renewed connection to creativity and vitality. Therapy becomes a space not only for insight, but for meaningful inner change and personal renewal. Art therapy requires no prior art experience and centers on free expression as a way to explore inner life when words are not enough.
Art as a pathway to insight integration, renewal, and new meaning
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