The overall aim of Art Therapists is to provide a safe, supportive and encouraging environment for clients to use art materials and promote life-enhancing change and personal growth.
Through creating art and reflection on the process and product within the therapeutic relationship people can:
- Resolve conflict and problems
- Manage behaviour
- Reduce stress / cope better with stress
- Increase self-esteem
- Foster self-awareness
- Promote personal growth and wellness
- Gain insight
- Develop interpersonal skills
- Work through traumatic experiences
- Increase cognitive abilities
- Develop better relationships
- Enjoy the creative experience
- Connect inner and outer worlds
- Explore personal potential
- Unblock and move forward
- Stimulate mental and physical activity
- Channel anger
- Relieve depression, anxiety and fear
- Grieve
- Adapt
- Experience positive feedback and recognition of unique worth
- Express concerns, feelings, thoughts that are hard to express verbally