How Art Therapy can help with Anxiety by Andrew C Wright

Art Therapy for Anxiety
Art Therapy and Anxiety

During these challenging times, it seemed important to investigate how art therapy can help with anxiety.

In this article, I will give an insight into how the creative art making process can help with anxiety. I will outline some strategies to help anxiety and discuss whether colouring books are a useful tool for anxiety. I look at the process of art therapy and how it can enable us to express and explore emotions.

“For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art” Edvard Munch

Introduction to Art Therapy: A Brief Guide By Andrew C Wright

What is Art Therapy? An Introduction

Introduction

Art Therapy is the use of the creative arts to express and reflect on emotional states with the guidance of an art therapist. It is effective as an approach due to the fact that it can help people express things that are difficult to talk about. It is also called Art Psychotherapy and is a well-developed profession in the UK and the US, being an approach that is used to help people of all ages.

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