Contemplative Art-Therapy
Beyond verbal paradigms in psychotherapy...
Understanding the experience of change and relief from suffering as a bodily experience requires expanding the repertoire of psychotherapeutic tools along with going beyond verbal paradigms.
We believe in the need for new forms of psychotherapy that place the body in a leading role. This search has led us through both scientific and clinical paths where we have been collecting different plastic-expressive, corporeal and contemplative tools that are integrated in our proposal of Contemplative Art Therapy.
We present this psychotherapeutic approach as inherently corporeal and enactive in which mindfulness, bodily connection, play, and creativity are put at the service of repairing and recovering affective-emotional functioning: Just as seeds in the desert wait for years for light and water to give them life and color, so to our traumatic experiences wait for years for the right conditions to heal… plastic expression operates like light and water, which with the warmth of the therapeutic bond give life and relief to the register in the body.
Board

Carolina Burckhardt Cantuarias.
Clinical Psychologist, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Bachelor of Arts, Catholic University of Valparaiso.
Systemic Family Therapist.
Specialist in Rorschach Psychodiagnosis and Neurocognitive Assessment.
Member of ARTE-SANA CENTER (@arteterapiacontemplativa)

María Isabel Gaete, PhD
Clinical Psychologist, University of Chile
Art Therapist and Family Therapist.
Specialist in Eating Disorders
Researcher, Corporal Phenomenology Laboratory, LAFEC.
Director of ARTE-SANA CENTER
Founding Member of AITA. https://www.aitavalpo.com/

María Paula Arriagada Renner
Clinical Psychologist, University of Chile
Specialist in Chronic Pain
Specialist in Mindfulness
Specialist in Visual Arts, University of Chile
Member of ARTE-SANA CENTER



