Clinical Art Therapy
Healing through making — art as the language for what words cannot yet say.
Formalised in the 1940s — artist Adrian Hill coined the term during his own tuberculosis recovery, and pioneers like Margaret Naumburg brought it into clinical settings; it is now an established mental-health profession worldwide.
Grief, trauma and feelings without words — when talking circles the wound but never enters it.
About This Practice
Art therapy uses drawing, painting, clay and collage not for beauty but for truth: the image can hold and reveal what the talking mind cannot approach. In clinical hands, the creative process becomes a safe, structured path to expression, insight and integration.
Sessions centre on spontaneous art-making with materials chosen for the moment, followed by gentle exploration of what was made — colours, shapes, movement — always at your pace. No artistic skill is needed or wanted; the process is the therapy.
Meet the Guides
Founding practitioners of Clinical Art Therapy in the Metta Universe.
Naina Sakulsacha
Clinical art therapy
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