Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

Acrylic paint, colored pencils, scissors and jars of blue colored water. In a classroom at Laagna Gymnasium in Tallinn, Estonia’s capital city, Nastya, Dasha, Sasha, and David sit quietly around a ...

Art therapy is defined by the American Art Therapy Association as utilizing “active art-making, the creative process, and applied psychological theory—within a psychotherapeutic relationship—to enrich ...

Have you ever had pent-up stress that you couldn’t express in words? Or feelings you didn’t want to share because they felt too painful or shameful? Art therapy is one way to release stress. It’s all ...

Art is a powerful tool for mental health wellness, offering a creative outlet that can reduce stress, enhance emotional expression and promote healing — qualities that are especially important for ...

Art therapy sessions could cut the risk of burnout by half, a study of London medics suggests. Researchers from Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust worked with 129 doctors, ...

Editor's Note: The following is part of a class project originally initiated in the classroom of Ball State University professor Adam Kuban in fall 2021. Kuban continued the project this spring ...

Creating art for healing purposes dates back tens of thousands of years, to the practices of First Nations people around the world. Art therapy uses creative processes, primarily visual art such as ...

In a classroom at Laagna Gymnasium in Tallinn, Estonia’s capital city, Nastya, Dasha, Sasha, and David sit quietly around a table. One careful pencil stroke at a time, they fill their papers with ...