What is Arts-Based Psychotherapy?
The expressive arts are creative materials and tools which allow an individual to communicate without talking. By using drawing, sculpture, music, poetry, storytelling, and sand trays, adults and children alike are offered a safe, non-judgmental, and accessible opportunity to share their psychological and behavioral challenges. Through this authentic and often spontaneous process, individuals can gain access to their feelings, practice new ways of expressing themselves, and learn alternative behaviors. Our therapists and our physical spaces foster creativity, play, curiosity, self-expression, and relationship-building. Our therapy approach is strengths-based, person-centered, identity-affirming, and relational.
"There is a treasure chest. We discover new things, like feelings and new feelings and art. I have a gate thing. And a lock. With scary and ugly things inside. When we are drawing, it is like a new discovery. Every time I come here, it is a new discovery."
- Mikayla age 12