Integrating Art and Hypnosis To Heal Trauma

There are many effective therapeutic interventions and activities involving art that can be incorporated into work with clients who have experienced trauma. We know that creativity helps us access unconscious information and processes, including right hemispheric and limbic system structures in the brain. Therapists may not realize that some therapeutic art interventions are hypnotic by nature, and can be used to induce naturalistic trance that provides a deeper, more meaningful transformational experience.