Art Therapy

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. ~Georgia O’Keefe

  • sensory based, often non-verbal, experiential psychotherapy

  • integrates implicit procedural and emotional maps created in the first three years of life primarily stored in the right brain which communicates nonverbally

  • gives form to what words cannot describe

  • focuses on each individual’s process using art mediums as languages to communicate with rather than on the finished product or technique

  • creates a visual record of your work and growth over time

  • can externalize and help metabolize physically held emotions and experiences inaccessible to cognitive memory

  • promotes neuroplasticity through engaging many areas of the brain at once

  • encourages new pathways to insight and understanding

  • offers a humanistic way to explore and honor the depths and complexities of life, identity, and your creativity (no experience necessary)

  • respects the dignity and creative capacities for healing within each person

  • attunes to tending preverbal attachment based and developmental wounds