Creative Encounters with the Inner Wild
Thank you for being here. My name is Holly Mae Haddock, BFA, MA. I am a counselor and expressive arts therapist, and LionSong is the name of my practice.
My service mission is to support people to develop a loving relationship with their Inner Wild - the wilderness within that is big, pristine & free.
LionSong is both a counseling practice and a website, dedicated in service to our collective paths of healing and awakening to unity consciousness.
In addition to providing counseling and expressive arts therapy, I share ideas, music, and experiential prompts you can use to heal your wounds, explore your creativity, and recover your natural Self.
Bookable Services
I provide three healing services:
I help with healing, creativity, and embodiment of our biggest, truest spirit-Self.
My sincerest creative-healer passion is to help people repair inner attachment wounds, so that they can reconnect fully with their GodSelf.
I do this using the practices and mindsets of expressive arts therapy, somatics, IFS/parts work, and counseling.
Although I have an MA in counseling psychology, I am not licensed as a mental health professional. For more about my scope of practice, please read here.
About Me
This site and its associated services are stewarded by myself, Holly Mae Haddock, BFA, MA.
My professional background is in counseling, expressive arts therapy, and organizational psychology. I use my skills to help people heal, play creatively, and embody their natural Self.
I grew up on an organic farm in Lompoc, California. I lived in London, Milan, the SF Bay Area, Detroit, Berlin, San Diego, and Portland before returning to the Santa Barbara area.
Education and Professional Training
I earned my Bachelors in Fine Art from UC Berkeley, majoring in painting, and my Masters in Counseling Psychology and Expressive Arts Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. I have received additional training in Conflict Resolution, Process Work, Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Somatic Therapy, and Neurobiologically-informed Trauma Treatment.
I worked for 6+ years in a licensure-track, supervised psychotherapist role in clinical settings, and 11+ years as a coach, teacher and facilitator in organizations.
I live in Santa Barbara, California, with my husband Didi and my cat Wendy.
My Creative Practices
I studied painting in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley.
My main creative practice is folk music, under the name Team Bright. In the past I had a band called Holly Mae and the Painted Room.
For experimental play or healing reasons I occasionally make meditation music, Parts Work pop songs, singalong chants, and improvised exploratory folk songlets called lionsongs.
I also do improv, dance movement for fun, write poems as medicine, and visual arts journaling.