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ARTS THERAPY IN THE THERAPEUTIC SPACE
Sandra offers a gentle space of safety and trust, witnessing and companioning her client. Exploring together what the client seeks to understand or change. Sandra draws on her own lived experiences and evidence-based psycho-therapeutic processes that are trauma informed, grounding and holistic, promoting sound mental health and wellbeing.
Sandra, most importantly, is directed by her client. A person-centred approach recognising the client is the expert of their world.
If talking is the preferred option, Sandra draws on a variety of Psychological Principles and Theories, including Mindfulness, MI (Motivational interviewing), Rogerian skills, and Narrative Therapy.
Sandra offers a gentle space of safety and trust, witnessing and companioning her client. Exploring together what the client seeks to understand or change. Sandra draws on her own lived experiences and evidence-based psycho-therapeutic processes that are trauma informed, grounding and holistic, promoting sound mental health and wellbeing.
Sandra, most importantly, is directed by her client. A person-centred approach recognising the client is the expert of their world.
If talking is the preferred option, Sandra draws on a variety of Psychological Principles and Theories, including Mindfulness, MI (Motivational interviewing), Rogerian skills, and Narrative Therapy.
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Our inner most thoughts can often be hidden, too difficult, and sometimes too painful to access. When Arts Therapy processes are incorporated a deeper therapeutic space is opened.
Art Therapy is so much more than painting a picture on paper. The very first records of humans show the use and appreciation of the arts, in all cultures, as a part of community life, spirituality, healing and expression. We make images and objects to express ourselves and make sense of our experiences. Exploring and expressing through embodying, distancing and externally representing experiences enables expression when words can't be found, |
These processes can make room for new perspectives, greater creative problem solving, identification of new approaches to problems, Such experiences can improve Self-awareness and Self-acceptance. This can be life changing.
When reflecting during this process some questions explored may include:
Be assured no art making skills or experience with art is needed.
In fact people often find they get more out of a session when experiencing the unfamiliar and giving themselves over to simply 'trusting Sandy and the process'
click here to make an appointment today
© Sandra Buchanan — 2015
When reflecting during this process some questions explored may include:
- What draws your attention the most?
- What comes to mind when you focus on this?
- When reflecting what do you become aware of ?
Be assured no art making skills or experience with art is needed.
In fact people often find they get more out of a session when experiencing the unfamiliar and giving themselves over to simply 'trusting Sandy and the process'
click here to make an appointment today
© Sandra Buchanan — 2015