WHO CAN THERAPY HELP?
Who can Art Therapy help?
‘Arts and creative therapies are treatments which involve using arts-based activities in a therapeutic environment, with the support of a trained professional. You don’t need to have done these activities before, or have any particular skills or knowledge.
Different people will have different experiences of arts and creative therapies, but they all aim to:
- give you a safe time and place with someone who won’t judge you.
- help you make sense of things and understand yourself better.
- help you resolve complicated feelings, or find ways to live with them.
- help you communicate and express yourself, which might include feelings or experiences you find hard to put into words.’
I can support
- children aged 12 and over
- teens and young people
- adults
- people with learning needs
- families, carers and guardians
- looked after children in foster care or residential care
Who are having difficulties, which may include:
- anger
- a struggle to identify emotions
- mood swings
- stress
- anxiety
- identity issues
- bereavement and loss
- low mood
- sadness or depression
- worries and negative thoughts
- low self esteem
- trauma
- self harm
- sensory issues
- challenging behaviour
- health anxiety
- separation and divorce
- coping with long standing mental health difficulties
- or simply not feeling ok and wanting some help.