Art Therapy
What is art therapy?
Art Therapy is an integrative mental health and human services profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship. Art Therapy, facilitated by a professional art therapist, effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals as well as community concerns. Art Therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensory-motor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress, and advance societal and ecological change.
https://www.arttherapy.org/upload/2017_DefinitionofProfession.pdf
For private art therapy, I work with children in an Arts and Wellness session after school through the use of therapeutic art and goal setting.
I also work with adults privately in mindfulness based expressive arts. Contact Laura for more information about the therapeutic arts.
I also facilitate
holistic arts and wellness/expressive arts
workshops with a mindfulness based expressive arts approach for the Atlantic Center for the Arts
https://atlanticcenterforthearts.org/community/arts-and-wellness/
What’s New
Taking an Art Retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains
August 2021,
Greetings Creatives,
I am wondering if any of you go on family trips and bring a sketchbook or art supplies and don't use them. Well I have done that for over 20 years with only an occasional sketch or two.
So, during July I went to a Watercolor Journaling workshop with painting teacher
Kari Waltz up in the Blue Ridge Mountains at Wildacres Retreat! It was a fully vaccinated class so that made it nice as well as open doors and windows with cool breezes and some outside painting! I highly recommend this retreat!
No matter if you are a beginner or advanced artist, immersing yourself in a setting where you can just focus on your work is a great experience.
Here is a link to Kari’s YouTube channel to learn about watercolor journaling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S917TdWpUWc