The Embodied Art Therapist: Theory and Practice for a New Paradigm

This volume, the first of its kind, brings together current research, protocols, and methods within embodied art therapy, from theoretical, clinical, and practical perspectives, for use by clinicians, educators, and students alike.

Bringing together the perspectives and experiences of practitioners and theorists in the emerging field of embodied art therapy, this book highlights the importance of the body in equitable, sustainable, and trauma-informed psychotherapy. The chapters in this book cover groundwork and theory, clinical practices, methods and materials, and the supervision and pedagogy of embodied art therapy, illustrated with case studies demonstrating its impact with diverse clients and their unique sensory and kinesthetic needs. Topics covered include neurobiology, trauma, attachment, somatic art therapy methods including Guided Drawing and yoga-based art therapy, working in nature, online, and in the transpersonal realm.

Training in body awareness allows clinicians to attune to all kinds of bodies. Allied professionals, students, educators and art therapists will all find this volume a necessary part of their professional development.

Mia de Béthune is a somatic art therapist and an adjunct professor at New York University.

Kelley Linhardt is an art therapist and an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts.

Valeria Koutmina is an art therapist, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction practitioner in private practice.