Dinao is a visual artist and a masters-certified expressive arts therapist with over a decade of experience in expressive arts therapy, community arts facilitation, and body-centered psychotherapy with people of all ages. She is a certified practitioner of sensorimotor psychotherapy—a therapeutic approach that integrates the body, trauma, and attachment theory.

Her work is grounded in harm reduction, anti-oppression, and trauma-informed principles, and is shaped by a commitment to creating spaces for connection. Dinao draws inspiration from contemplative, relational, and land-based approaches to community building, recovery, and art-making.

Outside of her practice, she finds joy in tending her garden, spending time with family and friends, and cross-country skiing whenever she can.

Dinao is based in Baddeck, on Unama’ki—the land of fog—which lies within the unceded, ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaw People.

For more information, please reach out:
email dinaom@gmail.com  or  phone 782.222.5815

Dinao is a member in good standing of the Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association
OEATA Code of Ethics