As a trained art therapist, I am a firm believer in the healing properties and potential artmaking can foster. Including artmaking in the therapeutic space can help all parties involved exceed the limits of traditional talk therapy by incorporating elements of visual and sensory information processing. Some of the ways we might see art being made …
We’ve probably all heard of the fight or flight response – that is, the innate way that the body responds to actual or perceived threat. For years it’s been thought that we’ve evolved to respond to danger in one of two ways: conflict or escape. An individual engaged in these responses may experience physiological effects …
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What is Art Therapy? Art therapy may be most simply understood as the intentional integration of art materials in the therapeutic process. This process is facilitated by a trained art therapist who is versed in both psychological and counselling theories, as well as in the processes and properties of art-making. This process may involve suggested …
