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30 techniques · 4 approaches
Art Therapy
Art Journaling / Visual Journaling
Art Journaling / Visual Journaling
Art Journaling / Visual Journaling is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and ma…
Art Therapy
Bilateral Drawing / Bilateral Art
Bilateral Drawing / Bilateral Art
Bilateral Drawing / Bilateral Art is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and mak…
Art Therapy
Body Mapping
Body Mapping
Body Mapping is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and make it available for re…
Art Therapy
Bridge Drawing
Bridge Drawing
Bridge Drawing is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and make it available for …
Art Therapy
Clay Work / Therapeutic Sculpting
Clay Work / Therapeutic Sculpting
Clay Work / Therapeutic Sculpting is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and mak…
Art Therapy
Collage Making / Therapeutic Collage
Collage Making / Therapeutic Collage
Collage Making / Therapeutic Collage is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and …
Art Therapy
Feelings Wheel / Emotion Color Mapping
Feelings Wheel / Emotion Color Mapping
Feelings Wheel / Emotion Color Mapping is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience an…
Art Therapy
Free Drawing / Spontaneous Art Expression
Free Drawing / Spontaneous Art Expression
Free Drawing / Spontaneous Art Expression is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience…
Art Therapy
Gestalt Art Experiments / Creative Process in Art Therapy
Gestalt Art Experiments / Creative Process in Art Therapy
Gestalt Art Experiments / Creative Process in Art Therapy is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to extern…
Art Therapy
Group Mural / Collaborative Mural
Group Mural / Collaborative Mural
Group Mural / Collaborative Mural is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and mak…
Art Therapy
Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD)
Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD)
Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD) is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and make it …
Art Therapy
Mandala Creation / Mandala Drawing
Mandala Creation / Mandala Drawing
Mandala Creation / Mandala Drawing is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and ma…
Art Therapy
Mask Making
Mask Making
Mask Making is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and make it available for ref…
Art Therapy
Narrative Art / Sequential Story Drawing
Narrative Art / Sequential Story Drawing
Narrative Art / Sequential Story Drawing is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience …
Art Therapy
Problem Externalization Through Art
Problem Externalization Through Art
Problem Externalization Through Art is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and m…
Art Therapy
Resource Imagery / Inner Strength Drawing
Resource Imagery / Inner Strength Drawing
Resource Imagery / Inner Strength Drawing is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience…
Art Therapy
Road Drawing / Life Path Drawing
Road Drawing / Life Path Drawing
Road Drawing / Life Path Drawing is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and make…
Art Therapy
Safe Place Drawing / Safe Place Visualization
Safe Place Drawing / Safe Place Visualization
Safe Place Drawing / Safe Place Visualization is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experi…
Art Therapy
Scribble Drawing / Squiggle Game
Scribble Drawing / Squiggle Game
Scribble Drawing / Squiggle Game is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and make…
Art Therapy
Self-Portrait / Therapeutic Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait / Therapeutic Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait / Therapeutic Self-Portrait is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience…
Art Therapy
Third Hand Technique / Art as Therapy
Third Hand Technique / Art as Therapy
Third Hand Technique / Art as Therapy is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and…
Art Therapy
Timeline Drawing / Life Timeline
Timeline Drawing / Life Timeline
Timeline Drawing / Life Timeline is an art therapy method that uses image, material, and symbolic process to externalize experience and make…
Focusing
Dream Focusing
Dream Focusing
A method of dream interpretation through bodily sensing rather than symbolic analysis. The dream already brings with it a formed felt sense …
Focusing
Handle / Symbol
Handle / Symbol
Finding the precise word, phrase, or image that grasps the quality of the felt sense. The handle is not analysis or interpretation but a sym…
Focusing
Resonating
Resonating
Checking the found symbol/handle for accuracy: the client places the word or image back against the felt sense and senses whether it fits. R…
Gestalt
Guided Fantasy
Guided Fantasy
The therapist leads the client through an imagined scene to activate feelings, resources, or inner conflicts. It differs from medical visual…
Jung
Alchemical Symbolism / Alchemical Imagery in Analysis
Alchemical Symbolism / Alchemical Imagery in Analysis
Jung discovered that medieval alchemy is a projection of psychic processes. The stages of the alchemical process (nigredo, albedo, citrinita…
Jung
Amplification
Amplification
A specifically Jungian method of interpretation — the expansion ("amplification") of an image from a dream or fantasy through parallels draw…
Jung
Analysis of the Transference (Symbolic) / Jungian Transference Work
Analysis of the Transference (Symbolic) / Jungian Transference Work
Jung saw transference and countertransference as a single dynamic of the analytic relationship with therapeutic potential. Transference is t…
Jung
Transcendent Function / Holding the Tension of Opposites
Transcendent Function / Holding the Tension of Opposites
The transcendent function is the capacity of the psyche to create symbols that unite the opposing contents of the conscious and the unconsci…
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