Our site offers you useful information about what art therapy is, how it might be useful for you or someone you know and how to access our various services. At Hertfordshire Art Therapy we believe every individual should have the freedom to flourish.
Our site offers you useful information about what art therapy is, how it might be useful for you or someone you know and how to access our various services. At Hertfordshire Art Therapy we believe every individual should have the freedom to flourish.
As a form of psychotherapy, art therapy uses creative media to explore emotions, develop self-awareness, cope with stress, boost self-esteem, and work on social skills. People who use art therapy do not need to have any experience in art making.
Art therapists work with children, young people, adults and the elderly. It can be provided in groups or individually, depending on a persons needs. Individuals may have a wide range of difficulties or diagnoses
At Hertfordshire Art Therapy we aim to empower individuals to grow personally and increase their resilience through the engagement with creativity and the development of meaningful relationships.
By balancing compassion, professionalism and integrity, we offer highly-quality specialist services to benefit all people.
It is our passion to embrace and celebrate difference as opportunities for a richer workforce and society at large.
At Hertfordshire Art Therapy we aim to empower individuals to grow personally and increase their resilience through the engagement with creativity and the development of meaningful relationships.
By balancing compassion, professionalism and integrity, we offer highly-quality specialist services to benefit all people.
It is our passion to embrace and celebrate difference as opportunities for a richer workforce and society at large.
We find ways to help individuals to express themselves in their own way.
It is not primarily concerned with making aesthetic products or diagnostic assessments but to empower each person to affect change and allow personal growth.
The central aspect is the relationship between the Art Therapist, the individual and the image; this is what makes it different from other psychological therapies.
By using symbolic language and metaphors, complex emotional states can be communicated.
Art Therapy can be particularly effective when working with individuals who may lack the words to describe thoughts and feelings that worry them.
Do you or the client group
you’re caring for (pupils, patients etc.) …
- Struggle with verbally expressing themselves?
- Experience prolonged mental health issues, such as depression, panic attacks etc?
- Have difficulty processing changes in your/their home/work environments?
- Have a bereavement in your/their family, community or other social contexts?
- Feel over-worked and stressed at work or in your family?
… Art Therapy might be useful for you!
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