Why use art therapy?
Hard emotions and experiences can be challenging to talk about, so art therapy can offer a way of communicating, that can feel less overwhelming. The physical experience of art making, offers therapeutic qualities that can be both expressive and soothing.
There is increasing research to show that art therapy is particularly beneficial to process early childhood and trauma. Through understanding neuroscience, we learn that both early childhood memories, and traumatic memories
are stored non-verbally in the brain; in images or sensory memories, as well as being held in our bodies.
Art therapy can provide a space for these non-verbal memories to be expressed sensorily; using art materials to communicate. Through expressing them creatively, with the support of an art therapist, you will be able to gradually begin to make sense of your experiences.
