By Clara Keane | May 11, 2017 | Children | Education BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG During the month of May, starting with the kickoff event on National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the AATA...
By Ellen Speert, ATR-BC, REAT | October 27, 2016 | About Art Therapy BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG The Nez Pierce have a saying: “Heal yourself and heal Mother Earth and all our relations.” It is widely agreed that art therapy is as old as the earliest human expression. We...
By Kathryn Snyder, MA, ATR-BC, LPC | January 20, 2016 | Health Care BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG The postpartum period in the family life cycle is one that is fraught with ambivalence and anxiety. While a new mother’s body is flooded with the oxytocin meant to link her...
By Gioia Chilton, Ph.D., ATR-BC and Rebecca Wilkinson, MA, ATR-BC | January 6, 2016 | About Art Therapy BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG Although masks are ubiquitous to art therapy, when we were recently asked to run several mask-making workshops we realized that we were both...
By Abbien Crowley Ciucci, MA, ATR-BC, LPC and Hope Heffner, MA, ATR-BC, LPC | November 18, 2015 | Health Care | Children BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG The diagnosis of a serious illness is often life-altering. When given to a child, the news of disease can be indescribable....
