The Embodied Art Therapist: Theory and Practice for a New Paradigm
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : July 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 480
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Counselling - Catalogue No : 98579
- ISBN 13 : 9781032594712
- ISBN 10 : 1032594713
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This volume, the first of its kind, brings together current research, protocols, and methods within embodied art therapy, from theoretical, clinical, and practical perspectives, for use by clinicians, educators, and students alike.
Bringing together the perspectives and experiences of practitioners and theorists in the emerging field of embodied art therapy, this book highlights the importance of the body in equitable, sustainable, and trauma-informed psychotherapy. The chapters in this book cover groundwork and theory, clinical practices, methods and materials, and the supervision and pedagogy of embodied art therapy, illustrated with case studies demonstrating its impact with diverse clients and their unique sensory and kinesthetic needs. Topics covered include neurobiology, trauma, attachment, somatic art therapy methods including Guided Drawing and yoga-based art therapy, working in nature, online, and in the transpersonal realm.
Training in body awareness allows clinicians to attune to all kinds of bodies. Allied professionals, students, educators and art therapists will all find this volume a necessary part of their professional development.
Reviews and Endorsements
The editors of this fascinating volume have provided the profession of art therapy with a long-overdue introduction to and overview of embodied approaches. The many contributors—each with a unique viewpoint—offer creative ways of working that honor the body while remaining true to art therapy.
Judith A. Rubin, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM, Past President, American Art Therapy Association; Former Faculty Member, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
Finally, an essential resource that focuses on the importance of embodied awareness in art therapy, including the significance of a neurobiologically-informed approach in various clinical and community settings. A must read for anyone in the field of creative arts therapies and those interested in integrating somatic awareness into their therapeutic practice.
Mitchell Kossak, PhD, LMHC, REAT, Faculty Member, Lesley University
If feeding someone is one of the first acts of care, then The Embodied Art Therapist peppers an in-body experience through theory, clinical practice, diverse needs, settings, and methodology. Proprioception is churned into practice, and the reader exits satiated and content. This is a must-have staple for all mental health therapists.
Dr. Ellen G. Horovitz, ATR-BC, LCAT, 500 E-RYT, C-IAYT, Professor Emerita, Nazareth University
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Theoretical foundations for embodiment in art therapy
1. The intersection of art therapy, embodiment, and body-based therapies
2. Trauma, attachment, and the body: Implications for art therapy
3. Neuroscience in the service of art therapy: Transcending classic approaches and advancing our understanding through principles of embodiment
4. Haptic perception in art therapy
Part 2: Clinical applications of embodied art therapy
5. Traditional body-based methods in art therapy: Guided imagery, body mapping, and body tracing
6. Embodied methods in art therapy
7. Sensorimotor therapy and sensory modulation applications within art therapy
8. Embodiment, energy therapy, and the transpersonal
9. Embodied methods in online art therapy
Part 3: Diverse bodies, diverse needs: Applications in different clinical settings
10. Social dichotomies, the body, and the transgressive power of creativity in an acute psychiatric setting
11. Eating disorders: Working with the body and its image in art therapy
12. Gender affirming ethos in embodied art therapy
13. Intergenerational trauma and the embodied creative wisdom of Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples
14. Disability Art: Lessons for embodied, anti-oppressive art therapy
15. Grace in the broken parts: Embodied art therapy methods for working with chronic pain and medical trauma
16. Embodying grief, celebrating death: An art therapy approach
Part 4: Embodied materials, methods, and settings
17. At home in one's body: Embodied art therapy spaces
18. The spirit of matter: An embodied approach to art materials
19. Environmental arts therapy: The body in nature
20. Integrative clinical practices: Art therapy, biofeedback, and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing
21. Integrating art therapy and yoga for an intentional, embodied practice
Part 5: Training embodied art therapists
22. Teaching embodied methods to art therapy students
23. Cultivating resonance: The embodied supervision relationship in art therapy
About the Editor(s)
Mia de Béthune is a somatic art therapist and an adjunct professor at New York University.
Kelley Linhardt is an art therapist and an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts.
Valeria Koutmina is an art therapist, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction practitioner in private practice.
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