This book shows you how creating art can help ease depression, anxiety, PTSD, and life's other challenges. Art therapy activities like...

“Even though they thought they were safe, in the next couple of days they started to hear the loud noise of the bulldozer getting closer...

“Each spiral is a thought externalised onto paper. I don’t journal so this my way of processing my life. I couldn’t tell you what each...

“This is the first time I used charcoal. I found the shapes it made really interesting so I went around them in posca pens. I also made...

This book describes the foundations and justifications for the use of art in therapy in a simple, readable format. The text is in two...

This is another collaboration artwork that started with an acrylic pour a client created in a birthday session. The orange background was...

“Art therapy works well with mindfulness because being engaged in creative endeavors helps the individual focus on the artwork, which...

“If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an...

This process started with a client doing acrylic pours on canvases in a birthday session. They then invited my other clients to add to...

“This artwork is my escape into the whimsical world. I have always been told I have my head in the clouds but that isn't necessarily a...

“This is how people see me on the outside and what I am really like on the inside. When it comes to gender, people just assume, then ask...

“I’m always drawn to creating rainbows maybe it’s because I’m queer. I noticed each pastel are different sizes and found this to be...

“This is my first ever punch needle kit. It was fun and relaxing. I like stabbing things repetitively. I like the colours, I think they...

“Once upon a time there was a red rabbit and orange cat that were friends. They both had challenges because neither of them looked very...

I often lend this book to my clients who are wanting to learn more about art therapy between session (it is actually out on loan right...

“This chart is half satire and half my thought process when consider coming out. I enjoyed making this because I like making funny things...

“The materials themselves can offer a tool to express emotions otherise extremely difficult to access or verbally decribe. There is the...

“Today I drew with my dominant and non dominant hands. It was really fun. The L is for my Left hand and the R is for my Right hand. Can...

“When I came to my session I was in my emotional mind instead of my wise mind. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do because I was...

"So the process this time was, Started with visions of Mal from Descendants. I painted the colours with sponges for my granddaughter. I...