Benefits of Art Therapy
The art process increases insight, awareness and self-discovery, providing the canvas to explore emotions, needs, trauma, growth, dreams, creativity and imagination.
Artmaking decreases stress, anxiety and depression and increases positivity and relaxation by entering a "state of flow,” similar to meditation. Flow integrates the mind and improve performance, self-reflection and reactivity.
Art therapy stimulates and improves mental function, memory, executive functioning skills, and concentration.
Art therapy is innately mindful—creating is centering, balancing, and presence.
Art is freedom of expression, it is a form of communication enabling the externalization of repressed emotions and experiences. The ability to express inner-thoughts, faith, trust, beliefs and hope non-verbally.
Art therapy alters perspective and brings about change. Art enables the creator to see their challenges from a new perspective and form productive strength based solutions to cope and create change in their life, building self-awareness, self-confidence and self-esteem.
Art improves self-regulation, when we are immersed in the art, with sensory based media, it calms the sympathetic nervous system, counteracting the fight or flight response.
Art aids in the body-mind-spirit connection. Through art, one can slowly begin to be and express their inner-feelings about past experiences and fear of the future and create steps to move forward in the present moment.
Art therapy aids neuroplasticity and the connectivity of new neural-pathways in the brain, enhancing brain activity, learning and memory.
Art helps traumatic growth and resilience as a creative pathway to emotional healing, altering perception and changing one's story of surviving to thriving.
Articulating experiences and feelings can be incomprehensible and emotionally overwhelming. Traumatic experiences are stored as sensory and somatic memories. The art process enables you to process life experiences and helps you find words to express what you once had no words for. —Art is your VOICE.
CREATE—IMAGINE—TRANSFORM