Art Therapy is a helping profession which is characterised by the use of art media and art making processes to help to contain and solve emotional and psychological conflicts in individuals.
In Art Therapy the artisitc creative process and its artifacts act as intermediaries in the therapeutic relationship, enabling particular feelings or emotional conflicts to find means of expression complementary or alternative to the verbal. Art Therapy is applied across the fields of Health Care, Education and Social Care.
ATe, (the Spanish Professional Association of Art Therapists)