What is Art Therapy?
Leaf of Transition, Oil Pastel and Watercolor on Paper, 2011.
Art Therapy is a health modality using art as a medium for expression and insight-oriented exploration. The experience of creation leads to inherent healing, has the capacity to bring new insight and understanding. In art therapy sessions, art documents changes and progress of life situation over the course of treatment. In the presence of an art therapist, clients can create and then explore the content of their image.
ART THERAPY WITH SPECIFIC POPULATIONS
DOES ART THERAPY HELP PEOPLE WITH TRAUMA HISTORY?
I offer art therapy services as a modality to help others to express story through visual arts. Art therapy helps people suffering from trauma to identify emotion, express feelings around trauma, reframe trauma, and connect to a story of a survivor of trauma.
HOW DOES ART THERAPY WORK WITH CHILDREN?
The art therapy model is a natural fit for children, who may need a way of expressing themselves through non-verbal ways of painting, drawing, and play with clay. Children gravitate to arts, which evoke creativity and expression. Children diagnosed with learning disabilities and Autism spectrum will naturally find a communication through the sensory stimulating arts.
Children have a natural spontaneity, which is under strain during life transitions. Children are affected by life transitions yet have child-like coping mechanisms and routines in transitions such as moving to a new school, adoptions/foster care, medical illness, injury, or grief/loss.
I offer art therapy services as a modality to help others to express story through visual arts. Art therapy helps people suffering from trauma to identify emotion, express feelings around trauma, reframe trauma, and connect to a story of a survivor of trauma.
HOW DOES ART THERAPY WORK WITH CHILDREN?
The art therapy model is a natural fit for children, who may need a way of expressing themselves through non-verbal ways of painting, drawing, and play with clay. Children gravitate to arts, which evoke creativity and expression. Children diagnosed with learning disabilities and Autism spectrum will naturally find a communication through the sensory stimulating arts.
Children have a natural spontaneity, which is under strain during life transitions. Children are affected by life transitions yet have child-like coping mechanisms and routines in transitions such as moving to a new school, adoptions/foster care, medical illness, injury, or grief/loss.
