Kaleido Art Therapy Services offer's individual, group art therapy and workshops open to everyone. What is art therapy?
Melbourne, VIC
3068
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My name is Annie Fox and I am a qualified Art Psychotherapist, ANZACATA Registered. Often when a person is in a hard place or feels stuck, words can be too distressing or difficult. In art therapy, art materials are provided as a primary mode of expression. This helps the client in communicating things that are difficult or impossible to articulate. We provide a safe and contained environment for people to express themselves through creative avenues. The art therapy process aids in traumatic experiences and feelings to be looked at and held, enabling the person to enhance their self-understanding. This self-directed visual process gives definition to the re-organising and structuring of internal chaos. What is art therapy? Art therapy is a form of art psychotherapy which examines and understands people’s behaviours, interactions, emotions and relationships, which in turn can help support the individual to change and understand these areas. Art therapy is informed by psychoanalysis. Art therapists have been inspired by theories such as attachment-based psychotherapy and have developed a broad range of client-centred approaches. I mostly use a non-directive approach which means the client takes the lead in the therapy. I will reflect back, and support in helping to make sense of information the client is providing, offer possible interpretations, or seek clarification, but ultimately it is the client who initiates the content of the therapy session. This approach allows for unconscious thoughts and feelings to develop and become conscious, helping to understand our deeper and truer feelings. I place high importance on each client expressing their unique and true nature through their artwork. Encouraging the individuation process which allows ‘life in which the individual becomes what he always was’ (Jung, 1980: para 84). Art therapy is regulated, this impartial regulatory system ensures the public are safe by maintaining a register of health and care professionals who meet their standards of training, professional skills, behaviour and health.
