Creativity Therapy

“The condition of play is that we are free to be completely ourselves. To play and imagine is to be open to anything and everything that occurs to us.”

— Joan Chodorow, Dance Therapy & Depth Psychology: The Moving Imagination

What is creativity therapy?

Creativity therapy is the practice of play and imagination through the integration of arts, music, movement/dance, color, etc. Engaging the imagination and the metaphorical mind allows for more awe, meaning, and freedom of expression in your life. Whether you are an artist or you are just someone who wants to engage life with more metaphor, imagination and depth, creativity therapy might be for you.

Through metaphor and imagination, creativity herapy can help to process deeper things that are maybe less accessible or inexpressible through other means. Dance/Movement Therapist Joan Chodorow suggests that may be “why symbolic play and imagination [can] put us on a collision course with thoughts, feelings and fantasies that have been repressed” (1991, p. 6). Creativity is a great resource for more depth in the therapeutic process.

“C.G. Jung once wrote that creativity is an instinct, not an opulent gift granted to a lucky few.

— Thomas Moore, A Life At Work

“Thought without action is the great perpetrator of the neurotic life.”

— Blanche Evan