{"id":222,"date":"2014-06-16T11:56:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T15:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perceptatherapeutic.com\/?page_id=222"},"modified":"2024-01-10T16:12:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T21:12:46","slug":"art-therapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/perceptatherapeutic.com\/?page_id=222","title":{"rendered":"Creative Art Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8220;I found I could say things with color and shape that I couldn&#8217;t say in any other way- things that I had no words for.&#8221; &#8211; Georgia O&#8217;Keefe<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Art as a helper in times of trouble, as a means of understanding the conditions of human existence and facing the frightening aspects of those conditions, as the creation of a meaningful order offering a refuge from the unmanageable confusion of outer reality&#8211; these most welcome aids are grasped by people in distress and used by the healers who come to their assistance.&#8221; -Rudolf Arnheim<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>PerceptA Therapeutic &amp; Training Center, LLC\u00a0<em>provides a supportive environment to help address a variety of mental health needs through the use of visual arts:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Improve self-awareness<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Encourage self-exploration<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Help reduce anxiety and stress<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Learn coping skills to better handle traumatic experiences\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Help explore and understand feelings about life experiences and transitions<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Help understand and improve relationships with others<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Art Therapy is helpful to adults, adolescents and children through individual and group sessions.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Using Art as Therapy and Open Studios can also help the healing process, inspire creativity, and help develop art skills.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arttherapy.org\/upload\/whatisarttherapy.pdf\">What is Art Therapy?- by the American Art Therapy Association<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Available Groups: *All art materials will be provided in the groups and no previous art experience is needed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Art Open Studio: Stress Management<\/strong><\/em>. Art is an excellent and effect way of learning ways to manage our stressful lives. This group will focus on learning ways to de-stress, as well as using the creative art process to gain self-awareness and effective coping skills. Group duration: 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Art Open Studio: For African American Men<\/strong><\/em>. Addressing many life issues including, depression, work issues, self-esteem, and racial identity issues. Art will be used as a way to explore resiliency and coping skills. Minimum of 6 people will be enrolled in this group. Group duration: 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Art Open Studio: For Women<\/strong><\/em>. Addressing women issues from motherhood to equality. Creativity will be used to address these topics as well as coping skills. Group duration: 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in any of these groups, please contact:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>perceptatherapeutic@gmail.com (for Stress Management Group)<\/li>\n<li>perceptatherapeutic.anah@gmail.com (for African American Men&#8217;s Group)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I found I could say things with color and shape that I couldn&#8217;t say in any other way- things that I had no words for.&#8221; &#8211; Georgia O&#8217;Keefe &#8220;Art as a helper in times of trouble, as a means of understanding the conditions of human existence and facing the frightening aspects of those conditions, as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/perceptatherapeutic.com\/?page_id=222\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creative Art Therapy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/perceptatherapeutic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/perceptatherapeutic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/perceptatherapeutic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perceptatherapeutic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perceptatherapeutic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"http:\/\/perceptatherapeutic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"http:\/\/perceptatherapeutic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/perceptatherapeutic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}