Visionary Healing Artist of the Year 2025
Healing Art, once a fringe concept, is now being embraced as a powerful tool to support mental, emotional, and even physical well-being. Across the globe, artists are stepping into creating art for healing, using color, form, intention, and energy to offer a deeper kind of restoration, one that connects individuals with their inner peace and higher purpose.
At the forefront of this transformative movement stands Helen Kagan, a trailblazing figure whose work has redefined what it means to heal through art. We, at EliteX, are honored to introduce Helen Kagan, PhD as the Visionary Healing Artist of the Year 2025.
Dr. Helen Kagan has spent over three decades pioneering her unique practice, HealingArts™ — a harmonious fusion of expressive arts, fine art, and the art of healing. Her journey is not just about creating beauty, but about channelling hope, resilience, and transformation through every brushstroke.
A Journey from Science to Spirit
Helen Kagan, PhD, is more than an artist. She’s a healer, a scientist, a psychologist, and a survivor. Helen’s story is one of resilience, purpose, and creative transformation. With over 30 years of dedication to the arts and healing, she has created an entirely new approach to wellness, one that speaks not only to the Mind but also to the Soul.
“I believe in the inter-connectedness of mind-body-spirit-soul and in art as a catalyst for healing individuals, society, and the environment,” Helen says with conviction.
Her work is known as HealingArts™, a fusion of expressive arts, fine art, and the art of healing. It is not just a practice; it’s a way of life. Through her visionary concept, she seeks to enhance well-being and spiritual growth by creating art charged with positive intention and high vibrations.
From Oppression to Expression
Helen’s journey began in the former USSR, where she grew up under a regime that stifled personal freedom and creative expression. As a Jewish refugee, she immigrated to the United States with two suitcases, $100, no English, and three graduate degrees. That leap into the unknown laid the foundation for a life dedicated to truth, healing, and creativity.
Her past—one marked by trauma and survival—now informs her mission to heal others. It took decades of training in psychology, art, and healing therapies for Helen to realize that she couldn’t deny her artistic voice any longer. HealingArts™ was born out of necessity, an answer to her inner calling and the chaos of the outside world. “My art reflects an existential view on life, a desire to bridge Realities and heal the Past,” she explains. “It brings you in touch with your own quest and facilitates your own healing journey.”
Healing in Color
Helen’s art is described as a “symphony of colors.” Every brushstroke is embedded with spiritual messages, sacred geometry, and healing frequencies. The result is a multidimensional experience that brings harmony, joy, and peace.
Her work is featured in international art fairs like ArtExpo, ArtBasel, and RedDot. She’s been named a “Collectible Artist,” her artwork have been published and awarded globally, and her HealingArts™ now includes not only canvases but also wearable items and homeware designed to uplift, soothe, bring joy and wellbeing.
“Art is my spiritual path, my transformational process, my way of being. It helped heal me, and now I offer that healing to the world.”
Healing the Healer
While Helen has spent much of her life helping others, there came a time when her own health collapsed. Burnt out and overwhelmed, she was hospitalized. What followed was a painful but powerful rediscovery of Self.
“My complex-PTSD came to bloom without asking my permission,” she states. “I had to stop everything. It was devastating, because I am a “doer” and I didn’t know how to be “non-doer. But I knew I had to get myself back. Creating HealingArts™ became my own source of healing.”
This period marked a turning point, not just personally but professionally. Helen deepened her spiritual practice, expanded her knowledge of holistic modalities, and began creating again. This time, her art was not just a career — it was a lifeline.
The Spiritual Lens
For Helen, art is inseparable from spirituality. She believes that every painting, every color, every symbol can speak to a person’s Higher Self. Her pieces are portals, designed to bring the viewer into a state of balance, calm, and harmony.
Practicing spirituality through art wasn’t always popular, but Helen stayed true to her Path. She doesn’t believe in mistakes, but she takes them as “lessons”. Those spiritual lessons that teach us our strength, truth, and authenticity.
She has studied and practiced countless modalities—Reiki, Yoga, NLP, Trance-Dance, Polarity Therapy, Sacred Geometry, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, EFT, Neurographics, and more. Over time, she synthesized her experiences into HealingArts™, creating her own unique language of healing that blends color, form, energy, and spirit.
“I am here to bring this message to the world — that my art is healing. It is Love and Light. It is a tool to help you connect with your true Self.”
Art as a Lifelong Calling
For Helen, being an artist isn’t just about creating something beautiful. It’s about fulfilling a spiritual mission. She views every piece of art she creates as a sacred offering — to change someone’s energy, shift their perspective, and ignite their inner healing.
“It took me 30 years to realize that Artist – is who I AM. I can’t not create. It’s my truth,” she says. Her advice for aspiring healing artists? Keep going. Don’t give up. Even when the world doesn’t understand your message, believe in your mission.
A Legacy of Light
Helen’s story is a beacon for anyone struggling to find their voice, their path, or their peace. Her life is proof that healing is possible, not just through medicine or therapy, but through the profound power of color, intention, spirituality, and love.
Her art invites us to slow down, reflect, and reconnect. It offers not only aesthetic beauty but emotional resonance and spiritual depth. In a world so often dominated by fear, uncertainty, and division, Dr. Kagan offers an alternative — a vision of hope, harmony, and healing.
A Vision for the Future
Helen’s dreams extend beyond galleries and exhibitions. She is actively working on her latest venture, WearableHealingArts®. It includes designer clothing, accessories, and home décor made from her original artwork, designed to bring vibrational healing into everyday life. Her vision is delivering hospital-ware and hotel-ware that can improve the wellbeing of patients, guests, and staff alike.
“I intend to bring HealingArts™ to HealthCare, Residential, and Hospitality — anywhere people seek peace, balance, and recovery,” she says.
Beyond that, Helen is working on three new books, developing her brand-new talk show with BoldBrave TV, and expanding her HealingArts’ colorful presence in both physical and digital spaces. She’s also writing columns in international magazines and is cover featured in publications like PassionVista, IMPAAKT, CIO Global, SRS Publishing, and others.
Healing for a Global Tomorrow
In many ways, Dr. Kagan’s work reflects a growing shift in global consciousness. As more people seek holistic approaches to health and self-development, healing art is becoming a vital bridge between science and spirit.
Helen’s art speaks to a generation hungry for authentic experiences that nurture the soul as much as the senses. Her creations do more than decorate; they communicate, resonate, and often, transform and heal. Whether it’s a canvas in a hospital lobby or a wearable design on a person navigating their own emotional challenges, Helen’s HealingArts™ has the power to gently open hearts, calm minds, and awaken something sacred within.
Looking Ahead
Beyond 2025, Helen envisions a world where art takes on an even greater role in personal and collective transformation. She believes that in today’s landscape of global crises, conflict, fear, and widespread emotional burnout, the world is in dire need of tools that reconnect people with their inner calm and clarity. HealingArts™ is her answer.
After years of donning various professional hats, she has arrived at a powerful realization. Her highest calling was always waiting for her on the canvas. It was in that sacred space of creativity that she found the most authentic version of herself. From that place of alignment, she birthed not only HealingArts™, but also Holistic Intelligence™, ArtSynergism™, and her latest offering, WearableHealingArts®.
Her vision is expansive. But beyond product or platform, her purpose is rooted in three sacred values—Light, Love, and Gratitude. In Helen’s future, healing is not an abstract ideal. It’s tangible, wearable, viewable, livable, and available to anyone ready to embrace it.
In Her Words
I believe there’s no mistakes. There are “lessons” given to us to learn what we need on our Journey. Practicing Forgiveness. Discovering your Strength. Speaking your Truth. Learning Self-Love. Find and define our WHY-s. Embracing Gratitude.
Here’s my humble advice to everyone, and not only to someone who wants to become a healer, artist, or healing artist –
Don’t ever STOP! Keep going. If you believe in your unique “message”, your Mission will eventually pick up. Everything new & innovative takes time for people to recognize it, change their own (old) paradigm to accept new, and then, hopefully, accept yours. I am speaking from my own, tough, rough, full of challenges, setbacks, obstacles, trauma & drama, yet so powerful, humbling and valuable Life Experience I am grateful for – NEVER GIVE UP. Namaste.
Short Bio
Helen Kagan Ph.D, a scientist, psychologist, healer, author, artist, is a pioneer creating art with intention to heal, and a creator of her unique HealingArts™ of 30 years. A complex-PTSD survivor dedicated her life helping others, she synergistically integrates Expressive Arts, Fine Art & Art of Healing in her work. “HealingArts” shown in multiple Galleries, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Countries, won awards, named “Collectible Artist”, is on Artsy.net and other platforms. A Bestselling Author with 5 books including co-authoring with JackCanfield and JimBritt, works on 3 new books, has her column in 2 International Magazines. Dr. Kagan’s awarded and published in PassionVista International as a Woman-Leader (2023), featured with front & back covers in International Collectors’ ArtGuide (2024), cover featured as Inspiring Woman-Leader, IMPAAKT(2025), Top Leaders – Magnate View (2025), and others. Helen believes in mind-body-spirit, in art being catalyst for healing individuals & society, and engaging Hospitality and Healthcare Systems to encourage healing through art.
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