Purpose: Emotional Processing | 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.

Explore sitting with sorrow and reactions to distressing grief emotions.

Explore different phases of life–rebirth, growth, endings, transitions–using a seasonal metaphor.

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

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

Foster emotional integration and relieve stress using a method of creating abstract art.

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

Create a physical container to hold emotions, items, and memories of a loved one.

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.

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

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

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.