It uses a variety of creative arts including drawing, painting, sculpture, collage and clay. Creative art therapies engage both the right and left brain hemispheres making it a holistic way of processing lived experience. The right brain is engaged during arts-making while the left brain is used at the end of the process when language is used to make meaning, share and reflect. Creative processes
often support individuals to express lived experiences that are difficult to articulate in words providing an alternative mode of expression. As body awareness is a central focus, art therapy also helps address embodied trauma responses as well as emotional and physical dysregulation. Koru Art Therapy would like to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia’s first people and the traditional custodians of the land and waters of Australia. We live and work on the land of the Biripi people and acknowledge elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that this is Aboriginal land and always will be and that sovereignty was never ceded.
