What Is Creative Arts Therapy?

I didn't know it then, but I was already doing something like therapy. As a kid who grew up without a lot, that box of Crayola crayons was everything — pure possibility in perfect rows. Art has always been my escape, my mood shifter, my comforter. It's why I became a creative arts therapist. I understood the power of it intuitively. The science came later.

What I know now is that for some people, creative arts therapy isn't just helpful — it's necessary. When trauma lives in the body and outside of language, talking about it has a ceiling. Creative arts therapy works differently. It works with the whole person.