Expressive Arts Therapy
Some things are easier to draw, move or make than to say, and that is the whole premise.
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What this is about
Expressive arts therapy uses image, movement, sound or writing as a way in. No skill is required and nothing is being judged as art. Working through a material often reaches experience that language has not caught up with yet, particularly early experience, and gives it a shape you can then look at together.
What work here looks like
It suits people who go quiet or abstract when asked to describe a feeling, and people for whom talking has started to feel like a performance. It can be used on its own or alongside talking therapy.
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Where this often overlaps.
