Lindsay Edwards, MA, LPC, BC-DMT, signed a lease on Monday to move Arts in Counseling to Cheltenham Township.
Edwards will join Kelly McMonagle Matthews, DMD MSD, at her newly purchased building: 400 Greenwood Avenue, the former Wyncote Public School which is being preserved and converted to a practitioner space. Edwards’ practice will be on the first floor next to McMonagle Matthews’ practice, Wyncote Orthodontics.
An Abington resident since 2018, Edwards said her lease starts November 1. She expects to begin seeing clients in January. The last two months of 2026 will be used to build out the new location.
“I’m so thrilled for this transition. I wanted to end up in a space that provided for full expression through all forms of creative therapy,” she said. “We’re still operating in Hatboro. Thankfully, it’s not a far commute so everyone will come with me.”
Edwards and McMonagle Matthews first met through an elevateHER event last year. McMonagle Matthews had just bought the Wyncote building, and the two found a good deal of overlap in terms of their practices.
“I have experience with art therapy and dentistry, and I’m excited for the possibilities to operate collaboratively. She sees a lot of families and youth, and I find creative arts therapy to be very successful with adolescents,” Edwards said. “The schoolhouse setting is really exciting. I want that location to continue to educate, and this gives me an opportunity to expand our education and training for future professionals, students, and the community. Trainees will be able to see their own clientele or observe sessions without it feeling awkward for clients. That may not happen for another year, but it’s within my business plan.”
Arts in Counseling is currently a team of five part-time therapists plus Edwards. She said she’s looking to hire a full-time art therapist and a full-time music therapist and is open to proposals as she figures out what the community wants and needs.
“Going forward, I want to create an intergenerational health center, meaning that we create care across the lifespan, and we also create opportunities for different generations to work and create together,” she said. “Health providers, life coaches, massage therapists, anyone can prescribe the arts or nature. There are lots of organizations in our area that are offering things like that which could benefit people’s mental health. Those referrals can give people a sense of belonging, and then we’d measure the impact by partnering with the prescribers.”
Edwards emphasized that creative therapy is a form psychotherapy.
“I do deep psychotherapy through things like dance therapy. Music therapy is fantastic for adults,” she said. “Everyone is creative, and we tend to conflate creativity with artistic. In mental health, our access to creativity is sometimes dampened. I use my creativity as a provider to enliven my clients. I want people to know that engaging with us means you’re receiving a therapist that’s actively engaged in their own lives.
“We’re not interested in product, we’re interested in process,” she said.
For more on Arts in Counseling, you can visit their website and Instagram page.
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Photo: Lindsay Edwards