Professional Networking for An Art Therapist
This post focuses on professional networking as an art therapist with a focus on developing your professional skills and promoting your services and products. A professional network delivers a number of benefits.
BOOK REVIEW Focusing Oriented Art Therapy
Focusing-based approach to art therapy helps clients to befriend their inner experience, access healing imagery from the body’s felt sense to express in art and carry forward implicit steps that lead toward change.
The Benefits of Art Therapy for Cancer Patients
Throughout all of the stages, cancer patients benefit from art therapy interventions that help process the nature of the illness. The patient is encouraged to explore painful emotions and physical suffering.
10 Useful Planning Tools for Your Business
Planning is the foundation for pursuing your therapy business goals. Once your goals are set, you need a system in place to help facilitate action. The right planning tools can improve your art therapy business.
Effective Counselling Approaches Used in Art Therapy
Art Therapy was established from a variety of domains including the most common areas of art and psychology. From a psychology perspective, art therapy has evolved using a number of theoretical perspectives.
Case Study: Using Art Therapy for a Client Who Is Grieving
The process of grief holds many layers of emotions for the people left behind. Art therapy can help clients unlock repressed emotion as well as providing an avenue to externally express inwardly held emotions.
How to Create an Annual Social Media Plan in 60 mins
In this post, we’re going to assume you already have your social media accounts created and that you now want to create a social media content plan. In this post, we look at creating an annual social media plan.
Black and White Pens for Your Art Therapy Supplies List
Pens are a staple item in an art therapy supplies list. Most clients will be familiar with pens which may help address any hesitation in using unfamiliar art supplies. In this post we test 5 black and 5 white pens.
Design a Simple Layout for Your Art Therapy Website
The colour choices, style of written content and overall layout will deliver the first impression of your therapy business to a prospective client and persuade them whether to click away or book an appointment.
Link List: Art Therapy Pinterest Boards
As Art Therapists, you understand the impact of visual information. If you haven’t indulged in Pinterest yet, think of Pinterest as a virtual corkboard to pin all of your favourite photos, images, recipes, notes.
BOOK REVIEW Introduction to Art Therapy: Sources & Resources
Introduction to Art Therapy: Sources & Resources provides an excellent introduction to Art Therapy by providing an extensive overview of what art therapy is, along with the historical perspectives of art therapy.
How to Establish Your Business Network
All businesses function within a network of other people, businesses, and organisations, with a view to providing a mutual benefit. These benefits can be based on operational functions or strategic functions.
Productivity Tools: StayFocusd vs RescueTime
If you’re like most therapists, running your own business requires a careful balance of client work and business tasks. No doubt you want to spend more time with clients and less time on administrative tasks.
Case Study: Using Art Therapy for a Client Going Through a Divorce
As a client goes through the experience of a divorce, they will be confronted with various stages of emotions including denial, anger, grief, regret, and guilt. Art Therapy can help a client process these emotions.
Link List: Podcasts about Productivity and Getting Things Done (GTD)
Podcasts have boomed in recent years. As a result of that boom, it means the depth and breadth of topics contain specific niches that appeal to the variety of aspects in our business, professional, and personal life.
10 Art Therapy Associations and Organisations
Most industries have associations and organisations that provide benefits to its members through networking, education, training, ethical understanding, public advocacy and general professional development.
Review of 5 Free Social Media Schedulers
To manage multiple social media platforms, you need to be somewhat of an entrepreneurial octopus. In most cases, each social media platform has it’s own scheduling function to learn about and manage.
How To Keep Up To Date On Art Therapy Research
Staying updated on art therapy and psychology research provides many benefits to your art therapy practice and overall professional development for your general knowledge or understanding specific niches.
BOOK REVIEW: The Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy
The practice of contemporary art therapy involves reflection on multiple philosophical, theoretical and practice models, and is often dependent on a range of specific settings or populations.
What Happens in an Art Therapy Session
Art Therapy is one of the most flexible therapies in terms of establishing a plan for treatment. It is difficult to call an art therapy session “typical” given the various art activities that can be utilised in a session.
8 Types of Art Therapy To Help Your Clients
The are many different types of art therapy, however, this post will focus on some of the most popular methods that Art Therapists regularly use in therapy sessions. We look at various types of visual art therapy.
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