As a provisional registered art therapist, I receive a lot of questions from clients, parents of clients, friends, family, coworkers, and others about art therapy. Questions such as…"What is art therapy?" "What is an art therapist?" "Who can participate in art therapy?" "But I am not an 'artist.' Can I participate in art therapy?"
Some people may be wondering when the right time is to seek counseling. Ben Franklin, in 1763, famously advised fire-threaten Philadelphians that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Naturally, preventing fires is preferred to fighting them when it comes to the structural integrity of a building. Tenants, for all intense purposes, would desire to have the engineers address the crack in the building, sooner rather than later. The same is true with counseling, prevention is preferred over recovery.