Expressive Arts Techniques
Expressive arts therapies are those psychotherapeutic processes which require purposeful physical activity at some level by the client. Expressive arts allow clients to process their emotions at a core experiential level, instead of only sending the experience through the cognitive processing pathways which can keep them stuck in pain or in unawareness. Learn more...

Expressive Arts include:

• Writing therapy includes poetry, journaling, story writing, non-dominant hand writing, etc. combined with a therapeutic relationship.
  
• Art Therapy includes drawing, painting, sculpting, molding, etc. By harnessing creativity and imagery, it typically can deepen the client’s experience of the self and often accesses previously unacknowledged resources. Carl Jung highlighted the importance of the creative expressive process in his own introspective work as he recorded his fantasies, dreams, and visions and would then paint and sculpt them. This brought him incredible insight into his own emotional processes and pain.
  
• Energetic Therapy includes specific physical movements or exercise, multiple chair work and therapeutic breathing techniques and can all be used to unblock our natural energetic pathways. By giving expression to emotions we begin the path to healing by initiating the release of tension in the body. The senses are used creatively as emotional guides.
  
• Psychodrama Therapy is the use of dramatic processes to free the clients from real-life constraints or embedded cognitive and behavioral patterns.