What is Art Therapy?

Art Therapy combines the Creative Process and Psychotherapy, facilitating self-exploration and understanding. Using imagery, colour and shape as part of this creative therapeutic process, thoughts and feelings can be expressed that would otherwise be difficult to articulate.

The goal of art therapy is to utilize the creative process to help individuals explore self-expression and, in doing so, find new ways to gain personal insight and develop new coping skills.

The creation of art is used to help individuals explore emotions, develop self-awareness, cope with stress, boost self-esteem, and work on social skills.

Land Acknowledgement

Although Creative Flow Art Therapy is a Virtual Practice it is rooted within Barrie, Ontario.

We humbly acknowledge we in Barrie are on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Anishinaabeg people, which include the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Pottawatomi Nations collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy, and prior to the middle of 17th century the Wendat Nation and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We add our voices to the call for Truth and Reconciliation and healing for injustice. We commit to learning more so that we are able to act as good neighbours on these lands.

What is Art Therapy?

Materials used in Art Therapy may include

"The whole point of Art Therapy is that we get to use art materials to have an experience that might give us some information. We're not working towards a final product that looks like any one thing."

Land Acknowledgement