About

The Story

Welcome! Artful Growth was founded to provide psychotherapy and art therapy services for adults and seniors.

As we move through our lives, they can be difficult at times and it takes courage to reach out for support and help.

I have witnessed art therapy to be an amazing, insightful and healing mental health treatment for a variety of situations and conditions.

Art therapy gives you the ability to be able to see what you feel or think in a way you may not have been able to express through words.

It can provide a way to express your feelings and thoughts with colors, lines, shapes and images which often illustrate insights.

The act of creating something from within can provide a way to deepen your self-understanding.

A R T F U L G R O W T H

Psychotherapist | Art Therapist | Coach

Linda Larkin - MA, MBA, LPC, ATR

Collage Red Art Box by local artist Rita Derjue

About Linda

Linda is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Colorado and a Registered Art Therapist (ATR). Her eclectic theoretical approach combines person-centered therapy focused on client needs along with a strength focus, positive psychology, evidence-based practices and art therapy on request.

Linda has a graduate degree in Art Therapy from St Mary of the Woods College. She also has a masters degree in Transpersonal Psychology from Naropa University and a MBA degree from the University of Denver.

Linda has worked for 8 years as an art therapist, psychotherapist and coach in private practice and for the Colorado Heritage Adoption camps, the Parkinson Association, Community Center of Denver, and the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado. She has been an art therapist for the Colorado Heritage Adoption camps for 6 years providing psychoeducational art therapy groups to adoptive children and families. She has worked as an art therapist and group facilitator for the Parkinson Association of the Rockies for their Artful Expressions groups and for the LGBTQIA Community Center of Denver Sage program for older adults. She also facilitated art therapy groups at Assisted Living centers across the Denver Metro area. She also coordinated the Colorado Epilepsy Foundation Studio E Art Therapy Open Studio groups from 2014 to 2015. She also worked full time at Alumia Institute, an Adult Day Center in Englewood.

Linda served as Membership Chair, Vice President and President on the Colorado Art Therapy Association as a part of the Board of Directors for the 2013 - 2015 term. She served as President of the Colorado Art Therapy Association again from 2019-2020.

I honor all races, ethnicities, genders, religious and spiritual traditions and the LGBTQIA community in my practice.