Purpose: Reflection | 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.

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.

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

This tactile approach of marbling colors while molding clay provides a non-verbal way to process emotions and release physical tension.

Preserve bonds and create legacy art with a plaster mold handcast.

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

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.