Help Children and Adolescents Heal with These Resources from Dawn D’Amico
In this blog, Dawn D’Amico speaks about her inspiration for writing Conversation-Starters for Working with Children and Adolescents After Trauma and about her work helping…
Tag: art therapy
An Introduction to Special Interests in Art Therapy with Autistic People
This blog contains a selection of excerpts chosen by author Jessica Woolhiser Stallings from chapter one of Special Interests in Art Therapy with Autistic People:…
Tired of Overthinking? Try This Exercise from Dr. Amy Backos
In this blog, Dr. Amy Backos, author of ACT Art Therapy and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Art Therapy, provides a simple diffusion exercise that can…
New ways of working: Art Psychotherapy and Innovation in a post-pandemic world
Promoting new ways of working in the art psychotherapies in a post-pandemic world and an increasing need for therapies.
Yehudit Silverman Discusses the Power of Creative Arts Therapies
The Story Within: Myth and Fairy Tale in Therapy: This book is for therapists, artists, seekers, of all mediums, offering a unique and creative process…
Improvisation in the performing arts: shaping or letting go?
In a museum in Istanbul, the dancer stands on a stone about one meter square, set several feet above the ground. She has very little…
Newly Qualified Art Therapist and Looking For Work. Is Private Practice for Me?
Under our current economic circumstances many art therapists are being forced to find alternative bases for practice and so they are necessarily orientating themselves towards…
Screen Time for Autistic Children
Jonas Torrance is a registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist and a behaviour consultant, who has worked with autistic children for over 30 years. He also facilitates…
Art Therapy Cards for Children: What they are and how to best use them
The author of Art Therapy Cards for Children, Elitsa Velikova introduces her Art Therapy cards and shares some ideas on how one can work with…
How art therapy can help with children’s sleep patterns
Elitsa Velikova, the author of Art Therapy Cards for Children, writes about how art therapy can help with children’s sleep patterns and shares some ‘creative’…