Expressive Arts Therapies
When clients struggle to access their emotional experiences, creative expression can offer new outlets for healing. Art, music, drama, dance, and improvisation can bypass cognitive defenses, helping clients express feelings and memories that remain locked out of reach verbally. From using hip-hop to connect with youth to creating art as a means of processing trauma, these articles feature insights and reflections from therapists who have used expressive modalities to tap creative capacities that foster resilience and self-discovery. Learn more about the ways in which creative arts can deepen therapeutic work.
This week, the Networker's assistant editor, Chris Lyford, sat down for a live conversation and Q&A with hip hop artist and therapist, J.C. Hall. Read more
Vulnerability, doubt, fear, and uncertainty—feelings most people try to avoid—are essential to cultivating creativity. Read more
The process of creating beats and lyrics is rooted in therapeutic practices. At one South Bronx high school, a school social worker has traded the therapy room... Read more
Psychotherapy Networker’s Lauren Dockett speaks with influential art and expressive art therapist Cathy Malchiodi about the broadening of her her field, how... Read more
Aliveness is not an experience we think or talk ourselves into; it’s a state of being we feel in our bodies. An expressive arts therapist shows how... Read more
Enhancing emotional healing with visual images in your work. Read more
A leader in expressive arts therapy explains why it’s increasingly being used to help combat vets find relief from trauma. Read more
Ann Randolph talks about one acting technique in particular that can easily be incorporated into therapy sessions to help clients express their emotions. Read more
When clients feel blocked, therapists can help them tap their inner artist and view feelings of vulnerability, doubt, and fear as part of a creative... Read more
James Gordon shares a technique he uses with clients to help them get out of hopeless thought patterns. Read more
Improvisational theater offers a unique way of approaching relationships—and psychotherapy—that's generous rather than closed, support rather than... Read more
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