What is Art Therapy?
What is Art Therapy?
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Art therapy is the combination of creative expression and psychotherapy.
What does that look like? We work with visual media to express how we feel. This can be through a guided step by step art invitation or an open ended idea that we explore.
Some thoughts and feelings may be difficult to express with words. Art therapy can help connect the unconscious with the conscious mind. Art based activities like bi-lateral drawings connect the left and right hemispheres as well as explicit with implicit memories.
Some thoughts and feelings may be difficult to express with words. Art therapy can help connect the unconscious with the conscious mind. Art based activities like bi-lateral drawings connect the left and right hemispheres as well as explicit with implicit memories.
But, I'm not an artist....
You don't need to be an artist to try art therapy. I hope you have a general interest in art and you are curious to explore! You are not going to be judged or graded on what you create.
You don't need to be an artist to try art therapy. I hope you have a general interest in art and you are curious to explore! You are not going to be judged or graded on what you create.
But, I believe, there is an artist in all of us.
But, I believe, there is an artist in all of us.
Some of the benefits may include:
emotional expression and self-regulation, focus on strengths, therapeutic and healing effects, stress reduction, personal reflection and insight, mindfulness and more.
emotional expression and self-regulation, focus on strengths, therapeutic and healing effects, stress reduction, personal reflection and insight, mindfulness and more.
“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
– Vincent Van Gogh
Art Therapy Services are currently offered at:
Solasta Psychology https://www.solastapsychology.com/
Blueberry Therapy https://www.blueberrytherapy.ca/
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