How can art therapy help people heal?

Art therapy provides healing opportunities through a safe creative space for nonverbal emotional expression, particularly during times of anxiety alongside trauma and severe psychological disturbance. Visual artistic expressions including drawing, painting, and sculpting enable people to understand their psychological experiences while transforming painful memories into control and safety reconstruction. Through art-making activities, both brain hemispheres work simultaneously to process emotions while thinking logically thus promoting the integration of traumatic memories and reducing emotional response intensity.