art therapy

The healing side of art

With stress and trauma at an all-time high, creating art is helping people of all ages work through personal and collective anguish.

With stress and trauma at an all-time high, creating art is helping people of all ages work through personal and collective anguish.

Kristin Schmidt found her way to art therapy after facing her own traumas

Many therapists discover their profession after seeing its benefits firsthand.

Many therapists discover their profession after seeing its benefits firsthand. Art therapist Kristin Schmidt is no different, and her personal experiences make a strong case for a discipline that’s become her career.

Therapists use cooking to stir up better mental health

"Whenever Grandma Dolly cooked, we all would come running," Mikki Frank reminisced while mixing pancake batter in a ceramic mixing bowl.Her therapist Julie Ohana asked, "What about your grandma's buttermilk pancakes made them so special?""Her love," Frank replied."That's a big…

'Welcome to Marwen' explores art as therapy in quirky true story

"Welcome to Marwen" is such an eccentric film that it wins a few points for sheer ambition, including its inventive visual scheme. The central story, however -- which is inspired by a remarkable true one -- never feels as transcendent or stirring as director/co-writer Robert Zemeckis clearly intends it to be.