Tag: Healing
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Expressive Art Therapy : Bottom Up Healing
Talk therapy undoubtedly has its place. For me, both personally and professionally, it had its limitations. Empathy and being understood is a powerful component that allows for change to happen. But the combination of an empathetic and warm therapeutic relationship that includes multi-modal expressive arts brings a whole new level of healing that goes deeper.…
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Expressive Therapies: addressing some common misconceptions
Expressive therapy provides a range of interactive, creative arts-based, projective techniques and interventions. It draws both on the principles of psychotherapy as well as the creative experience of the client to gain insight and to achieve growth, healing and integration. There are a few common misconceptions about the work I do with clients that I’d…