Art Therapy Program
Art Therapy Program
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Creating, singing, listening and even moving to music gives you great benefit in addiction rehab. Music therapy improves communication and outlooks for people dealing with substance abuse, addiction and mental illness. It helps them gain addiction recovery and gives them new ways of dealing with addiction.
What is an Art Therapy Program?
In an art therapy program, you express yourself in healthy and creative ways. This expression taps into your imagination and helps you learn how to better communicate your innermost feelings. Through this communication, you eventually begin to open up about past experiences.
Arts used in this addiction therapy include:
Sculpting
Acting
Music
Poetry
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an art therapy program enables people in rehab to express their thoughts and feelings, especially when they cannot use words to do so. This type of therapy also helps people with an underlying mental illness. Through art, you can show your thoughts and emotions, as well as explore and resolve problems you do not feel comfortable discussing.
For people in addiction treatment, creative therapy like this helps bring on recovery. It helps with healing and expressing your innermost thoughts and feelings as well as bringing out unspoken problems. This therapy helps victims of crime and abuse, too.
Types of Art Therapy
Types of therapy using art for healing include Gestalt methods, active imagination, and the third-hand approach. Gestalt methods use art as an introduction to deeper talks with your therapist. Active imagination methods use the artwork to let your mind roam for free association. This opens doors to the deeper understanding of your feelings.
The third-hand approach involves the therapist helping you create your art. You still control the overall creative process. However, the therapist acts as your tool in completing the work.
In rehab, you benefit from art in therapy because it helps you find new ways to deal with your addiction. You look more deeply into yourself and practice healthy coping skills through your art. In some ways, art lets you dig deeper when compared to talk therapy.
Art group therapy helps, too. Peers in group therapy use their art to help each other understand their struggles. You also gain an understanding of other people in the group at the same time.
Where You Find Therapies Using Art
Creative and experiential therapies using art take place in a licensed rehab center offering this type of counseling. The art helps you work through your emotions, experiences, and issues leading to your addiction and making it worse. You gain a safe place to talk about issues at the root of your problems. If you do not do well with talk therapy, art opens new doors for personal change and growth.
Melrose Recovery in Los Angeles offers creative therapy, such as art and music therapy. Programs of Melrose Recovery include:
- Supervised detox programs
- Inpatient addiction rehab
- Experiential therapy program
- Individual therapy program
- Group therapy program
- Family therapy program
- Dual diagnosis treatment
Using art, you gain new ground in your struggles with addiction. This type of therapy requires no artistic experience or talent. Anyone benefits from these therapies, especially when combined with other types of therapy.
If you or a loved one suffers addiction with or without a co-occurring mental illness, art can help you heal, too. Contact Melrose Recovery in Los Angeles at (714) 442-7782 for this help and other types of therapy you need for strong, lasting recovery.
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