When you think about the most common hobbies, like needlepoint and knitting, so many of them involve hunching over a tiny ...

Star City Recovery, a drug and alcohol residential treatment center in Los Angeles, has begun art therapy classes. In these classes, clients will be guided by experienced art therapists towards ...

Source: © 2016 From the Daily Doodle Journal of Cathy Malchiodi, PhD There are still many areas in the field of art therapy that are in need of investigation ...

Creativity can be a wonderful way to support your mental health, and with everything going on in the world, it might be an especially healing and underrated mode of self-care right now. If the news ...

When I color during therapy, it creates a safe space for me to express painful feelings from my past. Coloring engages a different part of my brain that allows me to process my trauma in a different ...

Did you know that picking up a pencil to doodle or making a figure out of clay can help you to relieve stress, depression, and fear, and can even help diminish pain or other physical symptoms? Art ...

Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

Art therapy encourages creative expression through painting, drawing, or modelling. It may work by providing a person with a safe space to express their feelings and allow them to feel more in control ...

Program Manager, Colorado Resiliency Arts Lab, and Researcher in Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, worked as an Emergency Care Physician for 6 years, University of Colorado Anschutz ...

Creative therapy uses art-based activities, such as music and dance, to help treat emotional and mental health conditions. In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that ...