Draw Within Counseling

Draw Within Counseling is a Waltham therapy practice offering expressive arts therapy and mental health counseling for children, teens and young adults. Brayden Kendziora, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, combines art, music, movement, writing and drama with traditional talk therapy to help clients with anxiety, identity exploration, body image concerns, life transitions and emotional regulation. The practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming, neurodiversity affirming and aligned with the Health at Every Size approach.

For young adults who have spent years as the people pleaser, the perfectionist or the caretaker, the work focuses on building self-trust, managing anxiety and setting healthier boundaries. For younger clients facing big emotions, school stress or family conflict, therapy focuses on coping skills and communication, and she partners with caregivers. Services include individual therapy, weekly DBT skills coaching with emotional and behavioral tracking, and family sessions. Outside work she performs in community theater, sews her own clothes and spends time with her therapy dog, Graham Cracker.

What to Know

• Therapy is available to clients age 8 and older.
• Brayden also holds a Wisconsin Professional Counselor license and offers virtual therapy to clients in that state.
• She provides off-site supervision for Lesley University graduate students in expressive arts therapy.
• Therapy is available to clients throughout Massachusetts.