Art therapy interventions using Pencils

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.

Grief Container

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

Dual Process Grief Integration

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

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.

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.