Art therapy

Art therapy is an integrative treatment that uses artistic self-expression to improve mental health and well-being.

The pandemic brought up many difficult-to-define feelings and emotions. Making art as a form of mental health treatment is a low-tech way to work through them.

After World War II, this form of therapy was used with soldiers who suffered from "shell shock". Trauma is complicated to articulate into words, and art therapy can support and connect patients with nonverbal expression.