Methods used in the creative arts therapies include making images or sculptures, dance and movement, voice work, dramatic play, mime, role-play, singing, improvisation on instruments, listening to music and song writing. The creative arts therapies offer a supportive environment, where people can communicate and work through emotions using the art form as a vehicle for emotional self-expression, interaction and change.
Methods used in the creative arts therapies include making images or sculptures, dance and movement, voice work, dramatic play, mime, role-play, singing, improvisation on instruments, listening to music and song writing. The creative arts therapies offer a supportive environment, where people can communicate and work through emotions using the art form as a vehicle for emotional self-expression, interaction and change.
These therapies provide a safe, supportive environment to enable encouraging self-expression and development supported by the therapeutic relationship. Central to creative arts therapies is the therapeutic bond that develops between the therapist and the client.
Creative art therapies are inspired by common psychotherapeutic trends such as person-centred therapies, cognitive-behavioural therapies, and psychoanalytical therapies, and have their own therapeutic specificities.
In a typical creative arts therapy session, the therapist facilitates experiences that are meant to target clinical goals and objectives, defined based on client’s needs, and demands. The creative arts therapists use their own experience as well as evidence-based methods in their intervention.
