The Power of Creative Interventions
- Why use art in therapy?
- Creativity and the brain
- Common myths about art therapy
- Art as assessment and art as therapy
- How to introduce art interventions
- Facilitate conversations about clients’ art
- Work with individual, partnered, family, and group clients
- Case study: throuple with one asexual partner
- Art exercises for clinical use:
- Scribble drawings
- Closed eye creations
- Watercolor circles
- Experiential art activity
Create a Sex-Positive Environment
- Tips for bringing up sex in therapy
- Get in touch with sexuality without words
- History of social perceptions of sex
- Queer culture and the heteronormative construct
- Diverse relationships – non-monogamy, long-distance, asexual & more
- Sexuality and mental health
- Case study: client with internalized homophobia
- Art exercises for clinical use:
- Abstracts of self-portrait to explore the self
- Band-aid for soothing
- Experiential art activity
Help Clients Embrace Wants and Needs
- Impact of religious and social norms
- Limit beliefs and where they come from
- Rebuild a new belief system
- Address internalized homophobia
- Shame related to mismatched libidos
- Nurture a non-judgmental atmosphere
- Case study: client concern regarding porn
- Art exercises for clinical use:
- Desires, fears, and fantasies collage
- Destroy shame to pave the way for becoming
- Love, sex, passion, and shame drawings
- Body mapping to express narrative of lived experience
- Word association drawing to assist with award conversations
- Experiential art activity
Help Clients Talk Openly with Partners
- Build better dialogue with compassion
- Increase trust and gratitude
- Consensual non-monogamy
- Case study: couple with mismatched libidos
- Art exercises for clinical use:
- Soul collage to explore fantasies
- Woven heart design
- Sensual paintings
- Communication collage
- Sex v. sensuality poem
- Experiential art activity
Clinical, Practical & Ethical Issues
- Self-disclosure of sexual identity
- Manage therapists bias and prejudice
- Increase comfort talking about sex
- Obtaining art supplies and materials
- Telehealth considerations
- Ethical considerations
- Scope of practice issues
- Limitations of the research & potential risks
- Case study: client engaging in sex work
- Experiential art activity


