Art share: Final Assignment

For my final assignment, I partnered with a classmate and we took turns doing the same activity in our sessions. My partner had a directive in mind, which wasn't too structured, but was enough to ease my anxieties. I ended up randomly collecting things to paste on my paper, old wrappers, newspaper clippings, words, random drawings. The only directions I had was to pick out things that had no meaning and paste them on a paper. It was a lot more challenging than I thought it would be. In the end, we discussed each thing that I pasted, and how it related to what happened in the last week. I thought it was really cathartic not to have to worry about drawing, and I liked being able to be more random and less precise. I was also able to talk about how things were relative (a bad dream I had ect) As far as being a clinician and using art therapy, it's something I definitely need to practice more, but I feel really strongly about incorporating it into my work, and am hoping to take courses to expand my knowledge and practice. My artwork is on the left.