by Miles Goldstein | Mar 24, 2019 | Mental Health
Renee Phillips โfounded The Healing Power of Art & Artists in 2015. She is founder and director of Manhattan Arts International, where she runs an online art gallery, and is a career coach and mentor for artists at www.Renee-Phillips.comโ. Ms. Phillips reminds us...
by Miles Goldstein | Mar 24, 2019 | Mental Health
Art therapy and the use of creative arts in therapy have many applications.ย ย Art can be healing or self-revelatory for many people. In formal therapy, only licensed art therapists are technically allowed to practice what is known as art therapy, but art can be...
by Miles Goldstein | Feb 5, 2019 | Legal, Mental Health
According to the American Art Therapy Association, โArt therapists are master-level clinicians who facilitate active art-makingโ (2017). We utilize the tenets of the practice of art therapy as contributors when we use art to self-soothe and express ourselves. It can...
by Miles Goldstein | Feb 1, 2019 | Blog, Stories
According to one author, โart can be used to help clients communicate, overcome stress, and explore different aspects of their own personalitiesโ (Cherry, 2018). As Cherry describes, art can be a powerful tool in therapy of various forms; the therapist need not be...
by Miles Goldstein | Dec 13, 2018 | Mental Health
Art therapy can have a profound impact on the functioning of the brain. In fact, Eating Disorder Hope generated an article that states, โart therapy reaches a part of the brain traditional โtalkโ therapy doesnโt access, and this type of therapy can be particularly...