Art therapy interventions using markers

Draw A Bridge

Explore transitions, highlight barriers, and clarify supports with a metaphorical bridge drawing.

What Comes After?

Explore spiritual beliefs and their impact on accepting and adjusting to loss.

Sitting with Sorrow

Explore sitting with sorrow and reactions to distressing grief emotions.

Reverse Coloring/Drawing

Open up creative possibilities by creating something new from a background of color to promote mindfulness.

Mask-Making

Creating Masks to Explore Grief, Trauma, and the Inner/Outer Self

Grief Container

Create a symbolic container to hold what feels too heavy to carry alone.

Fingerprint Legacy Cards

Preserve connection with legacy fingerprint cards.

Dual Process Grief Integration

Explore loss-oriented stressors and restoration-oriented glimmers to work through the oscillation of emotions in grief.

Drawing/Coloring to Music

Listening to music while drawing can create a relaxed environment to express feelings and reduce stress.

Drawing and Box Breathing

Promote regulation and relaxation through visualizing box breathing.

Draw the Curious Garden

Explore emotions and internal states by drawing a garden to present the inner world.

Creating a Mandala

Reduce stress and promote relaxation through this repetitive and meditative creative process.

Bilateral Drawing

Explore mindful awareness and emotional regulation through the process of creating marks with both hands at the same time to engage cross-hemisphere activity in the brain.