Arts and creative therapies are treatments which involve art activities within therapy sessions supported by a trained professional.
You don’t need to have any skills or experience in art; people of any age can benefit from them. Different people will have different experiences of creative arts therapies, but in general they aim to:
- allow you to communicate thoughts and feelings that you find difficult to put into words
- help you make sense of things and understand yourself better
- give you a safe time and place with someone who won’t judge you
- help you find new ways to look at problems or difficult situations
- help you to talk about complicated feelings or difficult experiences
- give you a chance to connect with other people.
Art therapy allows children and young people to express those feelings that they can’t find words to explain or find difficult to express because of the trauma attached to the thing being represented. They talk through the image with the therapist and communicate through it, taking the pressure off.
Creative arts therapy can be particularly helpful when working with trauma as it can help children process traumatic experiences which are often stored non-verbally in the brain. But creative arts therapies can also help with many other issues such as anxiety, depression and bereavement.
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