Exploring Dialectical Behavioral Therapy through art therapy. What is a dialectic, and how can we better understand this philosophy through interaction with images and myths?

Trauma impacts both our brains and our bodies through fundamentally interconnected systems. Treating trauma successfully allows clients opportunities to reactivate and reintegrate these systems after being disrupted. EMDR therapy and art therapy both bring powerful tools to the work of treating psychological trauma through non-verbal and multi-sensory integrated frameworks.

Explore the benefits of art therapy for kids facing school anxiety. Learn how art therapy can help your child cope.

A randomized controlled study provides crucial evidence that therapy dog interventions can successfully reduce stress (as reflected in decreased cortisol levels) in school aged children. What are other clinical implications for animal-assisted-interventions on children’s learning and wellbeing?

How can the process of contour drawing help us to learn and apply essential mindfulness skills as practiced in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)?

Treating ourselves with compassion cultivates personal authenticity & improves mental health, but we often face many self-limiting beliefs that block our ability to adapt a more compassionate way of thinking about our personal challenges. Art making in therapy can help to form a visual bridge to support our development of a healthier way of relating to ourselves.

Wise mind is a balanced place of creativity, intuition, inspiration, and flow. How can art making help us to enter into the state of wise mind, and allow us to maintain that grounded perspective in diverse settings and challenging experiences?

We organize our self-concept from a variety of relational and individual experiences—but we often don’t take the time to intentionally reflect on our sense of self. Our How can personal college making help to clarify our sense of self and deepen our connection with who we really are?

Kintsugi is an ancient art form that repairs a broken ceramic object, leaving it more beautiful, unique, and valuable. How can we use this concept in art therapy to provide personal healing and reintegration in the pandemic era?

Being an introvert comes with many strengths—but it can sometimes make it harder to connect in therapy. Art therapy offers expanded ways to explore the introverted perspective in a healing way.

How can combining Art Therapy and DBT skills help us to better tolerate emotionally difficult experiences?

What does the research on mental health teach us about the power of art making to grow through traumatic experiences?

How can art making in creative therapy help us more deeply understand ourselves and reduce our defensive thought patterns?

How can use use expressive art therapy to assist us in understanding, expressing, and managing our internal responses connected to circumstances of uncertainty?

How does our brain process overwhelming experiences, and how can we use our whole brain to overcome ongoing disruption in our current experiences related to past trauma?

We know that dogs can make us feel better, but why? And how do we intentionally build this benefit into our therapy process?