About Creative Therapy

What Is Creative Therapy?

Creative therapy enables an individual to use art materials and creative mediums to explore personal issues and challenges in a way that can be therapeutic.

A creative arts therapist will offer you a safe, non-judgmental space to explore your feelings and emotions in order to facilitate personal processes that help you to empower and understand yourself towards making positive changes in your life.

How does creative therapy work?

Creative therapy offers the individual the ability to enable a channel of communication from their internal archive of emotional experience towards outward expressions of both conscious, and unconscious metaphor. The therapist provides the individual with insights into these expressions in order to facilitate therapeutic realisations that can support the individual in developing a greater understanding of themselves and their challenges, to promote the healing and improvement of their well-being.

Creative therapy can help put an individual at ease. It can be a helpful way to communicate when the individual struggles to understand what or how they are feeling or has difficulty finding the words to describe or explain what they are going through. It can also be used to explore an issue in depth and provide a safe outlet for an emotion of feelings to be expressed.

Who is creative therapy suitable for?

Creative therapy can be used for people of all age groups, for individuals, couples, and groups.

It can be helpful for people with personal issues and challenges including those having received traumatic experiences.

To establish whether a creative therapy may be suitable for you it is best to seek advice from a creative therapist.

Do I have to be creative to benefit from creative therapy?

Creative therapy is not dependent on the creative ability of the individual. Instead, its benefit derives from their expressions using the creative mediums.

How much creative therapy might I need?

How much time an individual spends receiving creative therapy depends on the type of therapy and their needs. Some creative therapies are best utilised through regular sessions or when the individual feels the sessions are needed.