This hands-on art workshop will help participants learn about art therapy as a dynamic approach to mental health, counseling, and healing. This art therapy introduction is hands-on and participants will create while learning about the use of art in psychotherapy as a tool for physical and emotional release, personal development and growth, insight, trauma processing, skill-building, and enhancing communication.

Led by art therapist, Barbara Atwood, LPC, ATR, this group will offer various objects, natural and human-made, along with oil-pastels, pencils, and papers to combine into a 3-d sculpture. Participants will be guided through the process and will be able to take the final creation with them.

Participants do not need to have any prior art experience or proficiency to appreciate this workshop. Art therapy is founded on the principles that art is inherently healing and life-enhancing and that all people have the capacity for growth, change, and creative expression. Open to people, age 18 and up.