The Art Therapy Practice

The Practice - The Practice is an individual, fee-for-service program designed to provide accessible one-on-one Art Therapy for children, adults and families and, ultimately, to help support free group Art Therapy services for trauma survivors. In 2022, services were provided in-person and via telehealth. Clients addressed a range of issues including: anxiety, depression, grief and loss. Services are available on a sliding scale fee basis. 288 sessions were provided during The year.

Substance use, addiction & recovery program - The substance & addiction program serves both inpatient and outpatient populations at mount sinai beth israel chemical dependency center as well as clients of educational alliance's center for recovery & wellness. During 2022, we worked with 306 clients in 136 sessions and addressed issues ranging from navigating shame to systems of control to developing healthy coping skills. Due to The program being hospital based, there were periods during The year when groups could not meet due to The pandemic.

Youth Art Therapy program - The youth Art Therapy program served 312 children and adolescents during The year. Throughout The year, The program had to navigate pandemic-related closures and protocols of partner facilities yet we were able to run 184 sessions through a combination of in-person and telehealth sessions. These groups were provided in partnership with our youth program partners: cares, cedar knolls academy, jvl wildcat academy, mount pleasant blyethdale, new alternatives for children, new destiny housing, and The children's village. Youth groups addressed a variety of stressors and issues including interpersonal relationships and ideas related to connection, isolation and distance, family stressors, community violence and how to use coping skills to manage anxiety.

Additional Art Therapy programming provided throughout The year served The lgbqtia+ community, frontline workers, those experiencing secondary trauma and survivors of sexual assault.