Art Therapy
Openness & Curiosity
Art therapy is counselling psychotherapy combined with creative exploration through visual and expressive arts.
We use our creativity and curiosity to intuitively express and explore our inner landscapes (emotions, thoughts, physical sensations) connected to experiences we encounter in life.
It is effective for work with individuals, couples, families, and groups.
Art therapy is effective for anxiety, depression, grief, loss, separation. and overwhelm from adverse psychological, emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual experiences.
What is Art Therapy: Canadian Art Therapy Association links
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Art (and art-making) helps us process experiences that can leave us feeling depleted, drained, conflicted, anxious, depressed, and overwhelmed.
The sensory & kinesthetic action of artmaking in conjunction with reflective questions and emotional safety help us to intuitively explore and reflect on what comes through the image to us .
You do not need to be an artist or have art skills to benefit from art therapy.
Our artworks, like our dreams often contain symbols of our conscious and unconscious thoughts & feelings around our experiences in life. We explore these meanings in art therapy collaboratively.
You are the expert on yout own life experience, and art is explored in this context.
Our artworks and the art-making process can reveal to us what we intuitively need. We can trust this intuitive process. It is healing.
The art-making process is as important as the final artwork being reflected on. Your therapist is trained to collaboratively support, guide, explore, and witness the therapeutic work (process & product) you are doing.
The work you create often has profound significance because of the depth of meaning embedded in it It is connected to & symbolic of your own personal life experiences, your story, and journey.
