Vera Mak

I strive to be your partner in self-discovery, holding brave spaces for you to share your voice and helping you cultivate love and patience for yourself through creative means that encourage whimsy and joy back in your life. I hope to be a grounding presence for when you need solace, uplift the suffocating silence of your traumas, and empower you to resist the constraining systems of oppression in our exhaustively paced world. Bit by bit, I will peer past the veil and get to know you. Together with patience and a compassionate observer perspective, little by little, we’ll learn how to embrace our story. Together, we’ll shape how you see yourself, discover who you want to be, and learn how to love yourself. As humans, we are stories. A mosaic crafted from piecing together parts of everyone we love and have loved, combined with experiences we live for and lived through. But we are often stories that are untold, pressured to claw through each day just to survive. All the while maintaining silence to our festering pain, protecting the smallest sliver of self we can hold in our tired hearts. You are not alone in your story. If you’ll allow me, together we can find space to simply exist as our true selves once more, allowing our mosaic to shine in the sun. There may have been times when you felt inhuman, where you no longer recognized yourself, and felt empty where you stood. I’d like to reassure you that you are not alone in that feeling. I felt similarly in the past; in fact, I still do at times. But as I kept growing, I learned that the best thing about us is the fact that we don’t have to be human to be “human.” The humanity that lies within us is whatever we make our existence to be. What fuels our soul, who warms our hearts, and even what we’ve gone through, all of it shapes who we are, and we don’t have to be defined by it. With the use of expressive arts, we can create and transform the pieces that you want to add to your growing mosaic. You define the limits, and with your strengths, you will keep growing past them. I am confident in my years of experience in the arts, my endless pursuit of strength-based perspectives, and the connection we will build together to heal your soul as a collaborative team. I work with the hope that with time, you can freely shine with your individuality while united in the community. If you’d like, I would be honored to be a piece in your mosaic!