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ART THERAPY ACROSS INDIANA

INDIATA ADVOCATES FOR INDIANA ART THERAPY POLICY ADVANCEMENT.

We connect Indiana art therapists and students, provide clear profession-specific information to the public and other professionals, support professional development, and represent art therapy in statewide professional and policy conversations.

MASTER’S-LEVEL CLINICIANSGraduate education + supervised clinical preparation
ART PSYCHOTHERAPYArt-making + creative process within psychotherapy
DISTINCT PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONA general psychotherapy credential alone does not confer art therapy education
INDIANA PROFESSIONGraduate education, practicing professionals + national credentials
WHAT CHANGES CLINICALLY

THE CREATIVE PROCESS IS PART OF THE CLINICAL WORK.

Art therapists are trained to work psychotherapeutically with image, material, process, meaning and content—not only spoken language. Art psychotherapy expands the clinical field to include verbal, visual, sensory, spatial, symbolic, relational, material, kinesthetic, somatic and brain-body information.

Creating is not a break from psychotherapy or a route to producing something “pretty.” What unfolds through the process can itself become clinically relevant: movement, pacing, material response, imagery, metaphor, revision, regulation, emotional response and meaning.

ART PSYCHOTHERAPY

EXPANDS THE CLINICAL FIELD.

Words are one form of information. Image, material, sensation, movement, metaphor, memory, nervous-system response and embodied experience can enter the same psychotherapeutic process.

IMAGEMATERIALSENSORYSOMATICBRAIN + BODYMEANING
ART THERAPY IN INDIANA

THE PROFESSION IS ALREADY HERE.

Indiana has practicing art therapists, graduate art therapy education, national professional credentials and art therapists working across mental health, healthcare, education, community systems and private practice.