WHAT IS ART THERAPY?
We follow the canvas where art and therapy collide.
Here, every stroke speaks, every color has a voice.
Guided but unbound, you draw, paint, sculpt — exploring thoughts and feelings words can’t hold.
This is not about “good” art. It’s about the meaning behind each mark, the story only you can tell.
A safe space. A container. A refuge.
Through your creative rebellion, you find self-awareness, face what weighs on you, and discover new ways to turn emotion into expression.
art can mend the mind
THE USE OF METAPHOR
METAPHOR: symbolic or representative of something else, often something abstract
Creative Exploration Questions
At this moment, if you were a sound in nature, what sound would you be?
If your skin could reflect your interior, what colour would it be right now?
If you could transform in this moment into a natural object, what would you metamorphose into?
Metaphor in art therapy lets you face the hard stuff without getting swallowed by it. You turn your fear into a creature, your sadness into a landscape, your anxiety into a storm—close enough to study, safe enough to handle. It gives you space to breathe while still diving deep, a way to confront the truth without burning on contact.
Metaphor in art therapy is like giving your inner world a shape you can finally touch. Instead of wrestling with raw emotion, you let it become something else—a forest you can walk through, a creature you can study, a storm you can sketch from a safe distance. Your grief might take the form of a cracked vessel; your anxiety, a swarm of restless wings; your depression, an unlit fire pit waiting for the right spark. By turning feeling into image, you create a landscape you can enter without getting lost. Metaphor becomes the compass, the lantern, the map—helping you explore what’s been hiding in the dark, one symbol at a time.
Metaphor also opens doors to insight. You can interact with these symbolic forms—move them, reshape them, soften them—which can mirror internal shifts. Metaphor becomes both mirror and tool: a safe landing place for emotion, and a creative pathway toward understanding, reorganization, and healing.
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