Adventures in Art Therapy

Where I work, we have child and adolescent psychiatry fellows rotate through every three months.  So I have worked with many fellows over ...

It always amazes me how fast the school years go by when I supervise interns, and their last day of interning is always bittersweet.  The ...

Not everyone gets involved with formal art therapy, but using art as a means of therapeutic or community expression for art's sake is a...

I was very privileged to have some of my artwork be selected for videos set to composer Rebecca Tripp's relaxing music of several walt...

Occasionally, I hear wonderful quotes from my clients at work, which I call Classic Client Quotes.  On this day, a client was graduating ...

Some of you may be familiar with the Zentangle method, a meditative approach to drawing created by Rick and Maria.  The Potomac Art The...

I had the privilege of going to the weekend conference of both the Expressive Arts Therapies as Medicine and the first Mid-Atlantic P...

My intern Francesca and I were talking about these memes at lunch and noted we hadn't seen any to reflect the occupation of Art The...

The BBC created a report featuring my art therapy colleague Tracy Councill , who heads up Tracy's Kids , an art therapy service to pe...

A couple of years ago, we had the pleasure of hosting some Danish visitors who were touring the US, and one of them was a psychology major...

I have now finally joined the Twitter-verse.   You can follow me @Art_Tx ( Click on the icon below )

I know this is a blog about art therapy, but as some of you know, I post occasionally about music therapy also.  Being a musician, I par...

There aren't too many doctorate programs that incorporate art therapy, and the ones that have been in existence are PhD's in Educa...

Sometimes in my line of work it can be a thankless job. We often have success stories, but don't always get feedback or at least anythi...

What exciting news I got today!  This blog has been selected in the Top 100 Counseling Resources , specifically in the section of " A...

This segment features the use of tablet computers for those diagnosed on the autistic spectrum who cannot speak, but can use them to com...

I was made aware of the organization, Artists for Autism , via Candi Spitz, who in her own right is an advocate for those diagnosed with a...

Virginia center makes further inroads with art therapy                                                                                   ...

I came across this article recently and thought it was particularly poignant since I often come across very creative and intelligent indiv...

BIG congratulations to the George Washington University Art Therapy Class of 2012 -  especially my 3 graduating interns from last ye...

I came across this fundraiser campaign to help a math major - and artist - who wanted to raise money to pay for software to help her ...

I found out about this new documentary that highlights the life of a man with Fragile X Syndrome, and his siblings' assistance to help...

A recent post from Philbrook Museum of Art in my hometown of Tulsa, noted a discovery of Dr. Schauss with a particular color of pink.  ...

World Autism Awareness Day The fifth annual World Autism Awareness Day is April 2, 2012. Every year, autism organiz...

This is a great story that caught my attention, especially since Amanda is from my home state of Oklahoma, and if her art is selected, it ...

This is one reason I love working with the kids I do.  This is a very cute personalized door sign one of my "kids" made for me to...

Here is a lovely post about the effectiveness of art therapy with cancer patients, written by Candida Abrahamson, PhD, who generously allo...