Adaptable Creative
Arts Therapy for Empowerment
Our practice supports children, young adults, families & seniors. We are especially sensitive to the needs of caregivers and their care recipients. At The Patient Palette, the arts will meet you where you are with a person-first approach to care. We offer Art Therapy, Dance/Movement Therapy, Music Therapy and Drama Therapy. We are a NYC and DOE vendor and partner with schools and organizations to bring services directly to their community, provide services at our studio in Bay Ridge, or offer telehealth sessions.
Creative Arts Therapy encourages creativity, self-inquiry, accessibility, communication, learning, reflection, spontaneity, reparation, growth, and healing. It fosters a person's expressive and receptive language, social, cognitive, fine motor and emotional development.
Register for our Catching Snowflakes Winter Intersession Program or Evergreen Circle! Pre-screening required.
Our Practice is Rooted in Caregivers & Their Care Recipients
Informal & Formal Caregivers give so much of themselves. We encourage you to carve out time for the exploration of self-care through the arts. We offer both in-person or telehealth sessions independently, in a small group setting, and alongside your loved one, or individual, that you assist.
Creative Arts Therapy nurtures a person's strength of autonomy, pride in personal efforts and accomplishments, and offers a deeper understanding of where one might require partnership to better meet one's own needs.
Inclusive to Our Community
Our practice welcomes all members of our community. Our speciality areas of care are neurodevelopmental variances and bereavement/anticipatory grief. We support clients who have a presumed or formal diagnosis of ASD, ADHD, intellectual and communication variances, Alzheimer's Disease and other neurocognitive variances. We additionally support grief and loss in the caregiving relationship.
In providing care to these populations we are informed to support concurrent symptoms of anxiety, OCD related variances, adjustment variances, impulse control variances, executive functioning variances, vision loss, blindness, eating variances, and psychosomatic ailments. We do require coordinated care with a speciality-skilled mental health clinician in these areas based off of our assessment of the severity of symptoms upon intake, and as treatment progresses. We also require clients to share a letter of diagnosis and most recent neuropsychological evaluation when completing our intake forms.
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Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul, the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, soul medicine...When the soul is depressed, isolated, mad and distraught, artistic images appear.
Shaun McNiff, Art as Medicine
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