Art Therapy
Sometimes words are simply not enough to express all that you experience in life.
In those moments, non-verbal expressions such as art making can provide a safe, healing space for you to re-member your courage, strength, and resilience.
Art therapy is a body-mind based therapeutic modality. Art therapy utilizes the creative process of art making and imagery to enhance the healing journey of an individual. In an art therapy session, every moment carries the potential to become an opportunity for change towards healing experiences. One can develop a sense of control and mastery via art making to enhance one's coping skills. The physical engagement with art material can strengthen the connection between body and mind in the service of experiencing a sense of wholeness.
What do you do in an art therapy session?
An art therapy session looks the same as a verbal counseling session most of the time. A client in an art making activity expresses oneself from a different perspective than one's usual ways of communicating. Images produced during a session can range from a simple line drawing to an intricately detailed image. The goal of art making in a therapeutic setting is to learn to pay attention to the process of one's physical, emotional, and psychological experiences. All work produced during the session are the concrete affirmation of one's courage to share something of oneself.
Do you have to be good at art to benefit from art therapy?
No. All you need is your willingness to try it out to see whether you would like to continue with it or not. Each art making task will be tailored to meet your assessed therapeutic needs. If you are able to draw a line or pick out images from magazines to make collage, you can benefit from art therapy. You will be guided to pay mindful attention to how you interact with the art making experiences.
How does one become an art therapist?
Art Therapists are Master's level professionals, skilled in a variety of art methods, human, and creative development. They have extensive practicum experiences in a wide range of clinical settings.
What does ATR-BC mean?
ATR-BC stand for Board Certified Registered Art Therapist. Upon completing a graduate training, an art therapist can pursue accruing her or his post-graduate direct client contact hours ( a minimum of 1000 hours) and clinical supervision hours monitored by an experienced board certified art therapist. When these hours are verified and approved by a certifying agency called Art Therapy Credentials Board (www.atcb.org), the art therapist will become a Registered Art Therapist. A registered art therapist has a privilege to participate in a national art therapy examination administered by ATCB. When you successfully pass the examination, the art therapist is given the title of ATR-BC.
In those moments, non-verbal expressions such as art making can provide a safe, healing space for you to re-member your courage, strength, and resilience.
Art therapy is a body-mind based therapeutic modality. Art therapy utilizes the creative process of art making and imagery to enhance the healing journey of an individual. In an art therapy session, every moment carries the potential to become an opportunity for change towards healing experiences. One can develop a sense of control and mastery via art making to enhance one's coping skills. The physical engagement with art material can strengthen the connection between body and mind in the service of experiencing a sense of wholeness.
What do you do in an art therapy session?
An art therapy session looks the same as a verbal counseling session most of the time. A client in an art making activity expresses oneself from a different perspective than one's usual ways of communicating. Images produced during a session can range from a simple line drawing to an intricately detailed image. The goal of art making in a therapeutic setting is to learn to pay attention to the process of one's physical, emotional, and psychological experiences. All work produced during the session are the concrete affirmation of one's courage to share something of oneself.
Do you have to be good at art to benefit from art therapy?
No. All you need is your willingness to try it out to see whether you would like to continue with it or not. Each art making task will be tailored to meet your assessed therapeutic needs. If you are able to draw a line or pick out images from magazines to make collage, you can benefit from art therapy. You will be guided to pay mindful attention to how you interact with the art making experiences.
How does one become an art therapist?
Art Therapists are Master's level professionals, skilled in a variety of art methods, human, and creative development. They have extensive practicum experiences in a wide range of clinical settings.
What does ATR-BC mean?
ATR-BC stand for Board Certified Registered Art Therapist. Upon completing a graduate training, an art therapist can pursue accruing her or his post-graduate direct client contact hours ( a minimum of 1000 hours) and clinical supervision hours monitored by an experienced board certified art therapist. When these hours are verified and approved by a certifying agency called Art Therapy Credentials Board (www.atcb.org), the art therapist will become a Registered Art Therapist. A registered art therapist has a privilege to participate in a national art therapy examination administered by ATCB. When you successfully pass the examination, the art therapist is given the title of ATR-BC.
What is MARI (Mandala Assessment Research Instrument)?
1 MARI session ( 90 Minute)
The components of the 90-minute-session is made of an experiential and a guided analytical processes.
MARI (Mandala Assessment Research Instrument) is a psychological assessment tool based on the works of C.G. Jung and Joan Kellogg. It utilizes the symbols known as mandalas to offer an intimate snapshot into the Psyche of the participant. MARI can be beneficial to enhance one's self-knowledge and one's self-awareness. It is an exploratory process to bridge one's conscious ego with the unconscious to bring about a transformation and healing. For further information about MARI, check out the website: http://www.maricreativeresources.com/what-is-mari/