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The Art Therapy Center was established by Carol Lark in 1990 as one of the first full-time art therapy private practices in the St. Louis area. From the beginning, Lark specialized in the treatment of adults and older adolescents. Therapy issues range from relationship issues, depression and loss to severe early trauma and dissociative processes.Clients often choose art therapy as a primary therapy because it offers non-verbal access to difficult experiences that can be expressed first graphically and then discussed. Clients are also referred by their primary therapists when the use of art and other expressive tools such as psychodrama would help deepen or accelerate the work being done in primary therapy. As an adjunct therapist, Lark works with the client and the primary therapist to help build bridges between feelings, cognitions, and body experiences.As Lark expanded into the community arts arena, she relocated her practice from Brentwood, Missouri, to a larger, historic storefront location in Maplewood.This location is now under historic renovation and she has relocated to St. Louis City in studio and offices shared with Suzanne Doyle, Ph.D., LCSW. She continues to work primarily with adult women and men and the variety of issues, experiences and treatment concerns that they bring. She also offers groups and classes that focus on the creative process in self-expression and in dialogue with others.
SERVICES:
Art
Therapy, Art-Based, and Action Method Groups:
The
Center offers time-limited art therapy groups, art-based workshops, and
psychodrama. It also offers half-day and weekend workshops periodically.
Therapists, community groups, agencies and businesses can work with Lark
to develope groups tailored to their specific needs. Please click on the
heading above for a current list of all groups being offered by the Center.
For groups that are primarily psychotherapy groups, click on Group
Psychotherapy. Feel free to contact Carol Lark to discuss specific
group needs.
TO MAKE REFERRALS:
Carol Lark is happy to talk with prospective clients by phone and to make an initial appointment to discuss their therapy needs. Contact her at (314) 644-7171.
The Art Therapy
Center also sponsors art-based groups that are not intended to be
used as psychotherapy.The
focus is on the art-form itself. In some cases, such as
CorePainting,
there is an additional intent to help the participant gain awareness and
understanding
of personal imagery and symbols as growth-enhancing. Currently the
Center offers
CorePainting and DreamImage.
(Click to link)
Art is a powerful
language for social and community encounter. it quickly helps participants
get
to a deeper
level of feeling and thinking about issues such as race, class, gender.
It creates a
common ground
for communicating beliefs and experiences. Lark is co-founder of The Visual
Dialogues Project
and TREC: Talking Race, Engaging Creatively. She has worked at developing
dialogue skills
and opportunities using art and action methods as primary encounter since
1997,
culminating
in the successful TREC program. Art Therapy Center can provide consultation,
training
and art-based
dialogue workshops in a variety of settings.
Continuing Professional Education
The Art Therapy
Center provides periodic training seminars and workshops for professionals.
Past workshops
have included specialized supervision techniques, and a series of seminars
and workshops
on the use of somatic processes in therapy by Ruella Frank, Ph.D., Somatic
Psychotherapist,
Gestalt Therapist and trainer. Currently the Center is offering an art
and action
method supervision
group for clinicians.