Art therapy and you
You are in the driver's seat
Individual Art Therapy sessions are an opportunity to delve deeply into topics important to you.
This can include exploring your gender and sexual identity.
Your Art Therapy sessions can also be a place to explore your mental health and well-being in an environment that is LGBTQIA+ affirming with an Art Therapist who is also part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
How does a session look?
Intake Process
When you book in with Craft your Response, you will be sent an intake form. This intake form will ask you about
- any particular areas you'd like to explore in Art Therapy
- your likes and dislikes in art
- what you'd like JD to know about you before your first session and
- anything JD can do to make your sessions more comfortable.
This means that when we meet we can jump right into it!
Arrive at Trans Space
Craft your Response operates out of Trans Space in Brunswick. Our waiting area is filled to the brim with fidgets, soft toys to cuddle (including trans icon, the IKEA Blahaj!) and a tv showing relaxing videos of animals. Make yourself at home and make a cup of tea!
Discuss Boundaries
Due to JD and yourself both being members of the LGBTQIA+ community, JD will provide space in your first session to discuss how you'd like to handle if we run into each other out and about at something like a Drag Show. It is okay to not know the answers straight away and boundaries can be reviewed and negotiated throughout our time working together.
Meet the Materials
JD has lots of fun art materials to play with. They will give you a tour of the room and all of the goodies on display for Art Therapy adventures.
Art-based warm-up
JD will support you at the beginning of sessions to engage in an art-based warm up to figure out where you are at for the day and what you'd like to explore.
Deeper Exploration
In our arts-based warm up we will often discover something to delve deeper into. You will be offered invitations on how to explore this topic using art and you are in the driver's seat of where we go. Often JD, will also make art alongside you in response to what you share. They will use their art-making to share their understanding of wha you are going through.
Wrapping up!
At Craft your Response, the last thing we want to do is open up a barrel of worms in Art Therapy and then send you out on your way into the big, bad world. JD will support you to engage in a smaller art-based reflection such to summarise your learnings from Art Therapy session and reflect on what you would like to explore more next time.
Why 1:1 Art Therapy?
Tailored to your needs
Individual Art Therapy sessions for the LGBTQIA+ community can support you to explore your emotional and psychological needs in depth as well as focus on your preferences in art-making and your personal exploration of your gender and sexuality.
Relational safety
Art Therapy Groups can sometimes create challenges for people who compare themselves to others or who have relational trauma. Being able to work 1:1 with an Art Therapist can provide a sense of safety to delve deeply into your own needs without worrying about others or their art.
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Come and try Art Therapy by and for the LGBTQIA+ community
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