by Lauren Amos | Sep 30, 2016 | Art Therapy Articles
Since returning from holidays in July, I have organised a steady stream of art therapy workshops with the Perth Creative Art Therapy Group. The group is based on meetup, anyone from the Perth community who is curious about trying art therapy is welcome to join...
by Lauren Amos | Aug 25, 2016 | Art Therapy Articles
ARTLABS are creative experiments in self-expression, where I show you my process and suggest how you can try it yourself. ARTLABs are written up like laboratory reports because they are EXPERIMENTS. In the creative process no outcome can be guaranteed.There is no...
by Lauren Amos | Aug 22, 2016 | Art Therapy Articles, Instagram
Apparently I am meant to live by my values, if only I knew what they were.What’s a value word? It’s hard to think up on the spot. There are lists of suggested values on the internet. Staid concepts like honesty and harmony. Values most of us share but...
by Lauren Amos | Aug 15, 2016 | Art Therapy Articles, Instagram
Occasionally when I tell people about art therapy I get a sceptical response, “You mean you paint your feelings?”.The answer is, well, yes. After all, don’t we write about our feelings, talk about our feelings, even sing about our feelings (or at least listen to...
by Lauren Amos | Jul 20, 2016 | Art Therapy Articles
Don’t let the finger painting and crayons fool you. Art therapy is not just for kids, though it may inspire your own inner child aspects. Art therapy is suitable for all ages, abilities and experience. I work primarily with adults and adolescents (particularly...
