WHAT IS ART THERAPY ?
Creative Art therapy facilitates active artmaking creative process along with applied psychological theory,
to connect with individuals personal lived experience, perspective, & narrative in order to assist in making sense of it with a client centred focus.
An art therapy session can include:
Creative Art therapy facilitates active artmaking creative process along with applied psychological theory,
to connect with individuals personal lived experience, perspective, & narrative in order to assist in making sense of it with a client centred focus.
An art therapy session can include:
- painting
- Drawing
- Sand play & figurines
- working with clay
- carving
- sculpting
- doodling and scribbling
- making collages
As a Creative Arts therapist
I use visual art-making and experiential modalities to foster improved physical, mental and emotional well-being.
Each session is tailored to the individuals' needs, hopes & their sense of safety & personal inquiry.
The art making process can offer the creator a way to...
Develop, Explore & Express a sense of Self
to create a renewed sense of
Confidence, Effectiveness & Self regulation
I use visual art-making and experiential modalities to foster improved physical, mental and emotional well-being.
Each session is tailored to the individuals' needs, hopes & their sense of safety & personal inquiry.
The art making process can offer the creator a way to...
Develop, Explore & Express a sense of Self
to create a renewed sense of
Confidence, Effectiveness & Self regulation
WHAT DOES ART THERAPY DO?
Creative Arts Therapy develops
Self-Confidence through;
Creative Arts Therapy fosters
Self Effectiveness through;
Creative Arts Therapy facilitates
Emotional Regulation through;
Creative Arts therapy using arts processes to create meaning, rather than focusing on the result
So .. No previous art experience is necessary
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Arts therapy can be helpful & engaging way for young people & adults who want to
explore self-understanding, self-direction & foster self-expression while feeling safe
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While using Creative art therapy origins,
I also use other therapeutic frameworks to give a broad range of skills & insight to an individuals needs.
Theses include Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Skills, Parts work (IFS) & Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
The old saying,
“A picture is worth a thousand words,” reflects the powerful effect that the arts and creative expression have on human understanding and communication. Art therapy works to harness that power for therapeutic means.
Quote from https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/art-therapy#origins
Self-Confidence through;
- exploring personal meaning through meaningful self expression
- improving focus & ability to feel by linking feelings with visible form
- improving self-esteem through motivating & satisfying engagement
- creating autonomy of expression & understandings of personal meanings made
- fostering more pleasurable experiences
- validating experiences
- taking the pressure off, needing to have answers
- expressing feelings through a different form (non verbal)
- communicating through description (of the art)
- creating a sense of connection to self and others
- exploring 'what is important' in a process based way
Creative Arts Therapy fosters
Self Effectiveness through;
- explore imagination and creativity
- developing reflective practice for healthy coping skills
- Challenge habitual thinking like perfectionism or "all or nothing" thinking
- through a non-judgmental method of consideration
- express feelings that may be difficult to verbalize
- by focusing a mindful practice
- identify emotional blocks & fosters personal growth through meaning making
- providing a personal process to approach to conflict resolution
- embodied understanding through a processed based way of inquiry
- empowering self-discovery to be client lead
- improving understanding of self in relation to 'other'
- increasing communication & social skills through multi dimensional process
- relational interactive therapy
Creative Arts Therapy facilitates
Emotional Regulation through;
- offering a safe environment & processes that facilitates personal reflection
- creating a safe reflection process by making the object of reflection external
- a personalised way of understanding emotions
- understanding of the relationship between emotions
- immerse in an activity
- arranging thoughts in image form to create a sense of order
- using a mode of self-regulation (art) for emotional expression
- expressing feelings
- offering perspective & distance from issues of concern
- developing mindfulness as a practice
- strengthening their ability to self-regulate while processing personal challenge
- externalising overwhelming internal feelings to lower anxiety & stress
- offering physical form to internal experience so that the creator can then relate to it
- managing stress & developing relaxation in action
Creative Arts therapy using arts processes to create meaning, rather than focusing on the result
So .. No previous art experience is necessary
***
Arts therapy can be helpful & engaging way for young people & adults who want to
explore self-understanding, self-direction & foster self-expression while feeling safe
***
While using Creative art therapy origins,
I also use other therapeutic frameworks to give a broad range of skills & insight to an individuals needs.
Theses include Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Skills, Parts work (IFS) & Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
The old saying,
“A picture is worth a thousand words,” reflects the powerful effect that the arts and creative expression have on human understanding and communication. Art therapy works to harness that power for therapeutic means.
Quote from https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/art-therapy#origins
- Art exercises are facilitated, to open up new personal 'ways' of seeing, feeling and being
The process & the inquiry promotes greater mental health and well-being.
The unpacking of the art is focused on personal understanding.
What can emerge in art making is unfiltered responses in a safe expressive form
& the art therapist facilitates understanding of these ‘parts of self.’
Art therapy provides individuals facing physical, emotional, and cognitive challenges with new pathways toward understanding and self-expression, in a way that can defy description as it comes from a 'felt' & 'embodied' understanding. This can be a life line when things don't make sense in the mind.
Art can cut through cognitive barriers & ‘stuck’ thoughts and feelings that inhibit personal freedom & directly access & free problematic issues in a new way.
I am trained in both therapy and art.
I can also use other models of therapy (ACT, DBT, parts work (IFS) and other Trauma informed practices using an art therapy lens, with the central goal of improving individual’s well-being.
For an article on the benefit of Art Therapy for children view
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/arts-and-health/201601/child-art-therapy-how-it-works
