Art Therapy
What is art therapy?
via American Art Therapy Association:
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 sensorimotor 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.
“Art is a vehicle that allows us to transcend linear time, to travel backward and forward into personal and transpersonal history, into possibilities that weren’t realized and those that might be.”
Art directive examples created by Alicia Dabney.
Verdant Counseling and Psychotherapy provides culturally affirming, trauma-informed IFS Therapy and Art Therapy in the SF Bay Area and online throughout California. This website features my portfolio and past creative work. Please visit the Verdant website to learn more and schedule a free 15-minute consultation.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #136816
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor #14483
Board Certified Art Therapist #20-261
IFS Certified Therapist #CSL-0877
IFS Levels 1, 2, and 3 trained