The Benefits of Art Therapy for Non-Verbal Clients
Art therapy is seen as one of the most effective therapeutic methods for non-verbal therapy. This is true for all clients who are either physically or psychologically unable to verbally communicate.
Six-Week Start-Up: A step-by-step program for starting your business
This unique book provides in-depth coverage on business concept clarification, goal definition, money matters, market research, sales, marketing, government requirements, hiring employees, and more.
How to Read a Book + 10 Art Therapy Books
If you’re a therapist, no doubt you’ve read a lot of books! So it may seem ironic to be reading about how to read a book. We’ve included some tips on how to increase your reading productivity.
10 Tools to Help Boost Your Productivity
We all want to maximise our efforts during the day and reduce our time wasting activities. Increasing productivity improves our work output and helps reduce frustrations by finding our productivity deficits.
Client Barriers To Art Therapy Participation
As an art therapist, your role is to help your client decrease intrusive feelings of anxiety when participating in the art process. You should encourage your client to explore the art supplies and activities.
How to Plan Your Marketing Strategies
A marketing strategy defines your goals to promote your business to create a blueprint to achieve those goals. Developing a marketing strategy will help you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your business.
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.
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