Art
therapy is a form of (psycho)therapy with the means of art.
Art in itself is healing as it nourishes the soul. The
purpose of art therapy is to enhance creative abilities, to
train sensual perception, development of ressources and
creative potentials, development of social skills and
facilitating a creative and constructive way of living.
Through the activation of a person in his physical,
psychological and spiritual wholeness art therapy activates
the rehabilition of a creative capacity to live one's life.
Art therapy is also successfully applied in inner medicine,
with cancer and other terminally ill patients. The goal
there is obviously not recovery but acceptance of the
situation and work on biography.
In my way of supporting people through art therapy my
approach is to accompany people throught the creative
process as a means to self expression. Art threapy is
therefore a playground to learn a responsible and conscious
way of life.
By the means of processes of perception and design,
creative and artistic interaction, examination of
properties and effects of materials I help clients to
become conscious of unhealthy patterns and disorders,
facilitate transformation and mobilise authentic
biographic, emotional and mental ressources. I advance
people in their entire being and motivate them to find a
new sense of life. My clients develop by this way the
competence to create their life in a positive and
constructive way.
Duration of therapy varies and depends on the agreed goal
of therapy and new perspectives and solutions that arrise
during the therapeutic process. Therapy can be regarded as
accomplished when the personal situation has been clarified
and new views and perspectives of action are integrated
into everyday's life.
In my
art therapeutical work I specialised on the field of
psychosomatics and psychiatry and have successfully
supported patients in an important anthroposophic holistic
clinic/hospital in Germany on their way of healing.
Here
you will find shortly informationen about seminars and
workshop in art and art therapy with Eva Makkos in Berlin
and nearby.
Info about my vita