INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS
Create meaning and purpose in your life! Whether your needs are for brief, solution-focused counseling or more intensive therapeutic treatment, the process is person-centered and strengths-based. Art, music and movement therapies work well for individuals who have difficulty communicating verbally, such as those with trauma, special needs, or a physical challenge that impairs speech. Those who have an affinity for the creative process will also thrive in therapeutic arts. To schedule a session or for more information, please visit our Registration page or call Renee Bures at 215-262-4443.
Children
For children, therapeutic arts are used as a springboard for teaching multiple skills including impulse control, social skills, decision-making and problem-solving. Art, music and dance/movement breaks down barriers to interpersonal connections. The creative process facilitates interactions, a key to positive therapeutic outcomes and a significant benefit for special-needs individuals. Engaging in art, music or movement can increase awareness of self and others, inspire communication of issues and emotions, and enhance cognitive abilities.
Adults
Adults benefit from moving beyond thoughts to symbolic and metaphorical processes in which deeply-rooted information is brought to the surface, unedited by verbal constructs. Likewise, for those individuals who have been treated within “the system” for numerous years and are well-versed in therapeutic process, these modalities employ pre-verbal practices to access honest, sometimes repressed, information.
Adolescents
Adolescents thrive in therapeutic arts modalities, where the process of creating art, music or movement promotes safe expression and resolution of emotions. The creative process first replaces language, then expands to enhance verbalizations. Creating art, music or movement allows teens to distance themselves from their own challenges and within the therapeutic relationship, explore alternative solutions. When the stressor is illustrated through the arts, it becomes external to the adolescent and the stressor becomes the problem, not the adolescent.
Seniors
Art, music and dance are meaningful activities for seniors. They can engage in therapeutic arts to celebrate, gain perspective on and attribute meaning to life events. Therapeutic arts can help older adults cope with the psychological effects of aging, illness and disability. Likewise, creative arts are invaluable modalities with which to communicate for those whose language is compromised by stroke, brain injury, or memory impairment.
To schedule a session or for more information, please visit our Registration page or call Renee Bures at 215-262-4443.