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Hope is a daily practice that relies on creativity
About Miream
Miream (Mimi) Rabba is a Professional Art Therapist, CATA member, and founder of Art is Within. Before becoming an art therapist, she spent over 25 years in strategic design, collaborating with frontline staff and vulnerable communities in Canada and Australia to improve complex public services and systems.
She brings this systemic lens into her art therapy practice, helping people reconnect with themselves and navigate stress, burnout, grief, complexity, and life transitions. She focuses on expanding people’s capacity for joy, resilience, play, curiosity, aliveness, and possibility — not just coping with distress.
Her approach is accessible, inclusive, strengths-based, collaborative, culturally responsive, and grounded in the belief that hope is a daily practice that relies on creativity and imagination.
Miream works with
Children and youth (ages 5-18): Supporting self-regulation, focus, coping skills, navigating life transitions, anxiety, neurodivergence (ASD, ADD, etc.), and building self-confidence.
Adults: Managing burnout, grief, anxiety, and reconnecting with creativity.
Elders (seniors): Nurturing autonomy, self-expression, joy, and quality of life, including those on a dementia journey and with limited mobility.
What to expect
All you need to do is show up as you are — no art experience is needed. Whether in-person or online, we’ll co-create a space where you feel heard, seen, supported, and free to explore what’s emerging.
Where and how
Offering in-person sessions in Victoria BC, site visits to schools, care homes, and healthcare settings, and virtual sessions across Canada.
Curious about how art therapy can help?
Miream is a compassionate and caring art therapist. For those looking for warmth, Miream embodies the feeling of watching a thunderstorm from a covered porch with an heirloom quilt and a cup of tea.
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How we can work together
All you need to do is show up as you are — No art experience is needed.
Individual art therapy
In one-on-one sessions, whether in-person in Victoria, BC, or virtually from the comfort of your home, Miream sees her role as a facilitator - offering prompts, asking questions, creating space, and bearing witness to the answers that already lie within you.
Group therapeutic arts
Miream provides site visits to facilitate group therapeutic arts sessions across Victoria for schools, retirement homes, healthcare facilities, and organizations. With a focus on building creative confidence, fostering joy, promoting connection, and well-being through accessible creative self-expression.
Miream facilitates customized group workshops designed to meet a team's unique needs. Whether looking to foster psychological safety, enhance creative confidence, or promote self-care in the workplace, Miream will tailor workshops to suit your needs.
Workshop facilitation
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