Review of Paper Substrates for Art Therapy Activities
Using paper is the most accessible and affordable substrate for creating paint, drawing, and collage-based artwork. Collage based artwork can be created on almost any paper surface.
Case Study: Using Art Therapy for a Client with Alcohol Addiction
Addiction can take many forms including substance addiction (drugs & alcohol), or behavioural addictions (gambling, sex addiction). This case study is focused on alcohol addiction and a typical treatment pathway.
Review of Scrivener for Content Writing as a Therapist
Scrivener is a software program that is easily adaptable to your needs as a therapist to generate written content. It is similar to Microsoft Word in form, however, it provides a more evolved management system.
Understand the Marketing Cycle of Your Art Therapy Practice
These stages can be broken down into smaller steps to create a comprehensive marketing cycle, however, the 3 core stages should remain as the primary focus of your marketing strategy.
BOOK REVIEW Expressive Therapies Continuum: A Framework for Using Art in Therapy
Expressive Therapies Continuum provides a framework for organizing assessment information, the formulation of treatment goals, and planning art therapy interventions including many case examples.
What are Brand Image Assets and Why Do I Need Them?
Creating brand image assets represents an entire visual package of all of the items that you will use to portray your business to the public so that your business image is visually consistent.
Excel or Accounting Software To Record Financial Information
You need to record financial information about your private practice that will determine your tax obligations each year. Recording financial information provides you with insight into profitability of your practice.
Case Study: Using Art Therapy for a Client with a Stress-related Disorder
The word stress has become a common word to explain the level of anxiety we experience in a given situation. Typically, as the event subsides, so do our heightened emotions, and we return to normal functioning.
10 Guided Meditations to Help Relax and Provide Focus
Meditation is becoming one of the fastest growing activities in the western world. Mindfulness is a secular form of meditation that focuses on calming the mind and focusing your attention on the present.
How to Create an Art Therapy Supplies Kit
If your client is experiencing times of distress outside of therapy, it is helpful for them to have a strategy in place to help alleviate the distress including meditation, deep breathing, talking as well as creating art.
10 Art Therapy Exercises for Anxiety
Anxiety refers to thought and behavioural issues that result from excessive fear and anxiety. Fear is described as an emotional response to a threat, whereas anxiety focuses on the anticipation of a future threat.
How to Begin and End an Art Therapy Session Effectively
Most art therapy sessions do not follow a concrete structure. Putting some structure in place does help provide a framework in which both the therapist and client can feel confident that the sessions are productive.
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.
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