About this Service

The Art Therapy Nest is a compassionate community space for healing and creativity. The Art Therapy Nest offers individual and group psychotherapy, on a sliding scale basis, allowing compassionate support to be accessible to all. We also collaborate with organizations in developing clinical, creative and healing workshops, experiences and offerings. The Art Therapy Nest integrates expressive therapies; movement, music and art with traditional talk therapy and meditation.

We will be collaborating with Grand Street Healing Project in offering our next Healing Group for Survivors of Sexual Trauma. Join us for a space to heal, connect, and grow together as survivors

When: The group will meet for six consecutive weeks, every Monday, from 7:30PM-9:00 PM, beginning April 13, 2026. Session dates are 4/13, 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11 & 5/18.

Where: Grand Street Healing Project

105 Grand Street Brooklyn, NY 11249

Cost: $50-$150 per week or $300-$950 (Sliding scale)

In this group, we will integrate art-making, movement, music, poetry, and mindfulness techniques with talk therapy. The group provides a therapeutic and nurturing space to deepen your healing process, while also experiencing the connection and support of other survivors.

About this Lister

It is my belief that the creative process combined with compassionate guidance has the ability to reflect, transform and heal matters of the body, mind and spirit. In the therapeutic space we will integrate traditional talk therapy with art-making, movement, somatic awareness and meditation. My role is to help clients to explore and express themselves authentically. Therapy is a personal journey nurtured in a non-judgmental and supportive environment. The therapeutic space offers insight to the inner world revealing emotions, memories and experiences, with this increased insight personal growth and transformation occurs, offering relief from overwhelming emotions, crisis or trauma. Our process together will be organic as we begin to explore what your personal needs and challenges are with the goal of maintaining holistic health while living an empowered life.

Background and Expertise

Jennifer Lepke, LCAT, ATR-BC received a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Fine arts and went on to receive her Master's in Creative Arts Therapy from Pratt Institute. Lepke is fully licensed to practice art therapy and psychotherapy and is trained in the assessment, evaluation, and the therapeutic intervention and treatment of mental, emotional, developmental and behavioral disorders. She has over 20 years of clinical experience and began her work as a crisis counselor at a women’s center in 2003, she continued to develop her clinical skills while creating art-based therapeutic programs in schools and non-profit organizations while also working in psychiatric and medical settings. Her experience includes work with children, adolescents and adults struggling with anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, trauma and loss.

Lepke has presented her 6-week methodology for survivors of sexual trauma at the Nonviolence Organization of The United Nations and Arts, Creativity, and the Global Crisis: Reimagining Identity, Otherness and the Possible conference. She has also presented her work on creating virtual therapeutic spaces and somatic art therapy at the annual Water & Stone and Expressive Therapies Summit conferences. Lepke strongly believes in community based accessible mental health care; during the pandemic she created a Virtual Collective that offered virtual, live and interactive groups and workshops. She has had the honor of offering her therapeutic groups as a guest facilitator at MINKA Brooklyn and New Women Space, Brooklyn, NYC. As a continuum of her healing and eco-art workshops, Jennifer created and co-facilitated Roots and Stardust a 3-day immersive Eco-Art retreat at the Empty Center in Vermont. Lepke, is also an on-site clinical supervisor for Pratt Institute’s Creative Art Therapy program.