Art therapy for children, teens, families who feel everything a little more
Collage, mixed media and neuroscience-informed coaching (English, French)
Jumeirah 2 - online
New: GOOD ENOUGH
A 5-week online art therapy journey for parents.
For the parents who carry everything.
One creative exercise a week, at home, at your own pace, to lighten the mental load and make peace with parental guilt. No artistic skills needed.
Art Therapist - Dubai | Bérénice Romanet | Colors of Emotion
How I work?
There are no erasers in my studio.
What looks like a mistake on the page is often where the real work begins. Torn paper, a colour that spills over, a shape that went “wrong”: everything becomes material, just like the emotions we would rather hide.
I work mostly with collage and mixed media. Cutting, tearing, layering and gluing keep the hands busy while the mind slows down. For the child who struggles to sit still, the teen who doesn’t want to talk, the adult who has forgotten how to play, it opens a door that conversation alone often cannot.
My approach is informed by neuroscience. Learning how the brain processes emotion gave a scientific frame to what I had been seeing in sessions for years: when the hands are busy creating, what is hard to say finds another way out.
No artistic skill needed. We never judge the result, only what the process reveals.
About Bérénice Romanet
Who I am?
I started on stage. As an actress and founder of a theatre company, I learned that the body and the imagination carry what words cannot. Between two shows, I worked in my family’s Catalan textile business, which may explain why I still think in textures and colours. Years later, teaching drama to children in Muscat, I watched shy kids find their voice and anxious ones find their breath. Parents kept asking me what had changed. That question led me to art therapy.
Today I am a certified art therapist (RNCP, France) and hold a wellness coaching certificate from Harvard Medical School, with further training in applied neuroscience and brain health. Neuroscience put words on what I had been observing in the studio for years.
I work mostly with neurodivergent children and teens (autism, ADHD, giftedness), expat families going through transitions, and women navigating pregnancy, postpartum or fertility journeys. My medium is collage and mixed media. There are no erasers in my studio: what looks like a mistake is often where the real work begins.
I also serve as wellbeing governor at Jumeira Baccalaureate School in Dubai. Mum of two, eleven years in the Middle East.