What is Art Therapy:  Canadian Art Therapy Association links

 Our artworks, like our dreams, often contain symbols of our conscious  and unconscious thoughts, feelings, and emotons.   This is revealed to us in the process. Meanngs can change as our understanding and awareness increases.  

 

You are the owner and expert of your own experience & story.  The art is always explored in that context, intuitively, reflectivley,  and collaboratively with the art therapist as guide. 

 

             it is a process we can trust.     

Art Therapy

about

 

Art Therapy (counselling psychotherapy) uses our

creativity, insight, & imagination

to process life experience that can leave us feeling

depleted, drained, aching & conflicted. 

 

Creative endeavers are generally

therapeutic in themseles.  

They can provide us with the space

to relax, shift our focus, dabble & play,

or simply

give ourselves a break.    

 

 

 

 

In Art therapy, we take this further. 

We use our inate creative energy to explore 

our throughts, feelings, emotions or to navigate our the inner landscape. 

 

Whatever we are internally working on (grief, loss, trauma, depression, anxiety, fear, pain, sadness)

will come through

in the art & the artmaking process. 

It becomes the avenue

to explore & work

through it.  


Art made can be more profoundly significant & beautiful

because of the deeper meanings in it... 

symbolic of and connected 

to our own personal life, our experiences,

our passages & journey.  

Our story.

 

Your therapist will work with you collaboratively

to guide & support you

in this reflective, intuitive

inner process. 

 

 

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