Trauma-Informed Art Therapy Worksheet

Activity

Description

Draw Your Safe Place

Draw a place where you feel safe and secure. Think about colors and shapes that bring you comfort.

Express Your Feelings

Use colors and shapes to express a feeling you’ve had this week. Don’t focus on creating a perfect picture, just let your emotions guide you.

Mask Making

Create a mask that represents what you show to the outside world versus what you feel internally.

Write and Draw

Write a short paragraph about a recent challenging experience and then draw your feelings about this experience.

Collage Your Journey

Create a collage that represents your life journey, including key moments and how they’ve shaped you.

Paint to Music

Listen to a piece of music that resonates with you and paint what you feel as you listen.

Sculpt Your Emotions

Use clay or another sculpting material to represent an emotion you’ve been carrying around.

Color Your Stress

Use colors that you associate with stress to fill a page. Reflect on what the colors and patterns might represent about your stress.

Future Self Portrait

Draw or paint a portrait of yourself in the future. How do you see yourself? What emotions do you feel about the future?

Healing Symbols

Draw symbols that represent healing or recovery to you. Reflect on why these symbols are meaningful.

References

Malchiodi, C. A. (2012). Handbook of Art Therapy. New York: Guilford Press.


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Please note: There may be a more up-to-date and editable version of this worksheet available here which may be more suitable to present to clients if you are a therapist or to use in a classroom as a teacher or guidance counsellor.

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