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Artful Relating invites you into an emergent space space where relationship becomes a living art form—a creative act where love is not performed, but discovered. Rooted in somatic wisdom and artistic expression, this work centers on co-creating connection that is alive, authentic, and healing—a shared becoming shaped not by fear, but by curiosity, compassion, and courageous presence.

Most of us did not learn love in its purest form—free from conditions, expectations, or wounding. Instead, we inherited models that limit and distort love, often suppressing the parts of us that long for deeper intimacy, freedom, and truth. We yearn to meet ourselves and others without the armour of fear and protection—to be seen, known, and genuinely encountered.

To live and love artfully, we may need to unravel the old story—the one shaped by survival, protection, or silence—to find a new, truer narrative aligned with your heart’s desires and soul’s longings. Step into the unscripted space of love—where love is co-created, not performed—never rehearsed, always real. A space where love follows truth, not a script.

...you are seeking:

• Liberation from traditional, limiting relationship models
• Creativity as a force for healing, relating, and reclaiming identity
• Moving beyond survival-mode in life and relationships
• Safely express BIG and uncomfortable emotions
• Embracing authenticity, sensuality, vulnerability, and power
• Reclaiming exiled or rejected parts of the Self
• Reconnection with the senses
• Artistic embodiment and deep remembering
• Boldness, beauty, playful expression, unapologetic truth
• Embodied alignment with your inner knowing and boundaries
• To relate differently and more effectively

Relating is an art. Love is a shared becoming. In artful relating, something arises that is not controlled or planned: a shared creation, a deeper knowing.
The relationship itself becomes a an emergent space of possibility that reveals what love can become. 

Something takes shape that can’t always be anticipated, nor could it be found alone. A truth formed not by force, but by process and the building of trust. This space—this living, creative force—is rich with insight, healing, deepening connection, unexpected potential and discovery.

Codependency is not love. Survival is not love. Working with the power of creativity allows the necessary bend and flex of pure love that supports authentic relating. We begin to co-create—not just with ourselves and our loved ones, but with life itself.

When we lose touch with the Self, it's like having a compass with no magnetic north—we are pulled by others’ expectations, driven by fear, and forget who we are. Reclaiming the Self reawakens curiosity, vitality, and the courage to forge new paths.

We are committed to helping you rediscover your inner compass and restore your sense of direction, purpose, and Self. We offer a collaborative path to empowerment, guiding clients to build authentic, sovereign lives full of meaning, joy, and connection.

The healing journey is one of empowerment. The hero’s journey asks us to build the courage to overcome our inner and outer challenges. Though it may take time, healing doesn’t need to be an endless struggle.

Healing ripples outward—from your inner world to your relationships and beyond. We will supports clients in rewiring the nervous system, retraining the senses, and awakening their unique magic.

Cloe Joelle (she/her) is the founder of Artful Relating—a Somatic Psychotherapist, Educator, Artist, and Researcher with over eight years in private practice.  

Her journey into this work began in childhood. As a natural caretaker, she learned early adaptive strategies in prioritizing others' needs over her own—a pattern that eventually led to burnout and disconnections in her career and relationships. That turning point sparked the questions that now anchor her life’s work: Why does caring sometimes cost us ourselves? What does it mean to love without abandoning our core 'Self'?

Through her personal healing, professional training and research—including seven years in Integrative Body Psychotherapy and a study focused on the ‘Self in exile’ or ‘loss of Self’—her exploration uncovered a subtle yet profound pattern: how acts of protection can masquerade as love—especially in early development, where the difference between love and survival is often blurred. This early confusion between protection and genuine connection can lead to deep patterns of self-abandonment.

Cloe’s studies and research have led her to specialize in these most subtle, nuanced, confusing, normalized, under-researched—and most difficult to recover from—forms of trauma, such as: existential, developmental, attachment, intergenerational traumas, and complex PTSD. Her interests include chronic pain, shame, neglect and ambiguous loss. 

In early development, many factors can interrupt a child's natural psychosocial maturation. In these cases, she supports clients in unwinding inherited patterns and reprogramming belief systems that once served as survival but now hinder connection. Her approach blends somatic therapy, parts work, the developmental sciences, expressive arts therapy and attachment fundamentals.  

Artful Relating is the living embodiment of this philosophy—a space where love is a creative act, where true connection and love emerges unscripted and healing is collaborative.