Boston Expressive Arts Therapy Services (BEATS)

Boston Expressive Arts Therapy Services, known as BEATS, is an Arlington practice offering individual and group therapy that blends traditional psychotherapy with expressive arts and other embodied, trauma-informed and integrative approaches. Clinicians work with children, adolescents and adults, and no art experience is needed. Alongside one-to-one therapy, BEATS runs facilitated therapy groups, support groups and parent education focused on grief, stress, trauma recovery and parenting, plus community classes in movement, art and mindfulness.

Founder and program director Jordan Kaufman is a licensed mental health counselor, registered expressive arts therapist and certified yoga instructor whose work draws on a play-based drama therapy method called Developmental Transformations, attachment theory and mindfulness-based psychotherapy. The team includes drama therapist Savannah White, who trained at Lesley University. BEATS also provides clinical and expressive arts supervision for therapists, interns and creative arts practitioners, along with continuing education coordinated by its Director of Education.

What to Know

• BEATS is in-network with insurers including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Harvard Pilgrim, United Healthcare and Aetna.
• Insurance covers individual, couples, family and group therapy, but not support groups or classes.
• Self-pay clients may qualify for a sliding scale fee.
• Telehealth is available to clients located anywhere in Massachusetts.
• A parking lot behind the building is available for clients.