How Art Therapy Works For Young People

1. Welcome
   For your first session, we will use this time to discuss the reason for you choosing to explore art therapy, and if appropriate to set some therapeutic goals for this specific session and/or for the long-term.

2. Creative Art Session
   This will usually take up the bulk of the session, though it's also possible that art-making may be brief and intense, or even skipped if a more verbal approach is requested or thought therapeutically necessary for the client. During the art-making, the art therapist can be there to just witness your process, or even collaborate or make art together. And the artmaking process can look very silent, or quite talkative, depending on the session.

3. Discussion/verbal processing
   This is when the client and therapist explore their artwork, the art making process, and whatever came up from the art for the client.

4. Closing activity
   Most art therapy sessions involve a client and therapist reviewing the session and their agreed goals, with a focus on transitioning from the session back to their everyday life.