I’m happy to announce I’ve been approved for supervisor status with the Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA). VATI’s art therapy supervisor course, which included 30 hours of instruction plus course work, helped me prepare for my new role as supervisor.
I’m looking forward to collaborating with supervisees as they develop and fine-tune their professional goals, self-knowledge, and identity as an art therapist. Each session will include reflective art making.
Art therapy is a way to explore issues, concerns, and strategies for change using the creative process that does not rely on words to be helpful. The questions I ask about how and what you’ve made lead to insights that increase your self-knowledge and inform the steps you want to take toward positive change. My therapeutic approaches include psychodynamic, humanistic, and strengths-based.
You do not need to be an artist to do art therapy. You use materials on hand to make spontaneous art or to do creative activities I suggest based on the concerns that brought you to art therapy. You can make scribbles, stick figures, swirls of colour, collage images, clay shapes, glitter and paint on wood, etc. Can’t imagine what virtual art therapy would be like? Check out my blog post: https://dianneshannonarttherapy.ca/2020/12/06/healing-with-virtual-art-therapy/
Virtual sessions are available, and for Ontario residents, many health insurance providers cover session costs.
In-person outreach sessions where I bring art therapy to you in the Saskatoon area for groups and individuals.
Art therapy supervision is offered to art therapists working towards CATA registration or for registered art therapists.
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