Purpose: Creative Self-Expression | Art Therapy Interventions

Draw A Bridge

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

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

Externalize complex feelings into a tangible clay form, which can then be explored and processed.

Express and process emotions that are difficult to verbalize by embracing abstract art.

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

Engage in the creative act of painting a candle while honoring and remembering loved ones.

Represent a memory using the metaphor of a silhouette to express grief or loss.

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

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

Preserve connection with legacy fingerprint cards.

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

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

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

Promote self-reflection, autonomy, and grounding through the process of choosing, cutting, and arranging images that offer comfort.

Express grief and connection to loved ones by painting with symbolic stones.

Examine how thoughts arise and change and how to respond to them with more kindness.