Arts Therapies

Arts Therapies

Explore the exciting and dynamic world of expressive arts therapies and gain practical skills that can be incorporated across many fields and into your practice.

Art Therapy Has Many Faces

Get an introductory glimpse into the exciting and dynamic world of art therapy. With footage from art therapy sessions conducted all over the world and spanning several decades, you’ll see the diversity of the field and the many benefits to incorporating an art therapy approach into your practice.

Learn from the field’s leading experts and pioneers

Watch pioneers of the field like Judith Rubin, Eleanor Irwin, Natalie Rogers, Violet Oaklander, Stephen Snow, David Scharff, and others demonstrate various art therapies.

See real therapy in action

Watch as clinicians successfully work with clients across all populations including: developmentally disabled, physically handicapped, non-verbal clients, children, teens, elderly, African American, Japanese-American, and incarcerated persons.

Adapt art therapy into your preferred approach

You don’t have to be an art therapist to utilize these skills and techniques. Watch experts as they incorporate art into other modalities including: person-centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, online remote therapy, and more.

See art therapy in action with various therapeutic issues

Watch as clinicians work with clients facing depression, trauma, anxiety, physical disabilities, ADHD, attachment issues, grief, substance abuse, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer.

Get tools for creating creative healing

Art therapy offers many different approaches including: psychodrama, play therapy, music therapy, dance therapy, and sandtray therapy. Get tools to incorporate arts therapies skills into your practice.

Need arts therapies teaching or training resources?

From small group practices to nationwide behavioral health systems to ivy league universities, we offer multi-user solutions tailored to suit your needs.

Spotlight

Arts Therapies Videos

Lessons from Mister Rogers Neighborhood
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Lessons from Mister Rogers Neighborhood

Art as Therapy for Cancer
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Art as Therapy for Cancer

A Brush With Life
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A Brush With Life

Art Therapy IS: A Film & Two Groups for Those with Chronic Mental Illness
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Art Therapy IS: A Film & Two Groups for Those with Chronic Mental Illness

Art and Therapy: The Story of an Artist Therapist and His Film of A Pioneers Group
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Art and Therapy: The Story of an Artist Therapist and His Film of A Pioneers Group

A Time to Dance: The Life & Work of Norma Canner
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A Time to Dance: The Life & Work of Norma Canner

Our experts include…

Learn from leading experts as they employ arts in healing.

Judith A. Rubin

PhD