Who is Art Therapy for?

Art therapy is for everyone.

If you are open to using art materials in an exploratory way then art therapy is for you. You do not need to be ‘good’ at art, nor do you need any particular skill or ability. You don’t need to be an artist, artistic or creative to do art therapy.

In art therapy the focus is on the process of artmaking and what comes about through using the materials, rather than the look of the finished product.

As art therapy involves using imagery to process and communicate it can be helpful for those who struggle to express themselves verbally or who have not got on well with talking therapy. Art therapy also involves engaging the body and senses which can help people access deeply held psychological material beyond our cognitive awareness.