What is Art Therapy?
Leaf of Transition, Oil Pastel and Watercolor on Paper, 2011.
Art Therapy is: an healing modality with art as a medium for insight-oriented expression. Creation can lead to inherent healing and has the capacity to bring new understanding. In art therapy sessions, the client creates art. In the presence of an art therapist, clients create from imagination, future aspirations, dreams, 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.
