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If your insurance doesn't cover the classes there is nothing saying you cant still do art therapy on your own. One of the advantages off setting your own therapy program like I do is that I don't have to do anything that I don't want to and when I do have projects going I can go at my speed, take breaks when I want to, work on it when I want to and so on Since I am the one coming up with the activites it doesn't matter if I say to heck with this one. I have scapped many many projects in mid stream because I wasn't ready for that activity yet or it wasn't working for me. art therapy is like journaling you paint, draw, color create diarama's and so on when and if you WANT to not because you HAVE to like in a class.

Art classes have specific activities that you have to do each week and homework assignments to match what you are learning in class for example one class you learn about drawing shapes and for homework you draw shapes, the next week you learn about shading and for homework you draw shapes and shade them in then the next week you learn how to make a chai out of squares and rectangles and shade them in and so on until the class is drawing trees, buildings and so on. then the final exam is using all you learned in class to create a project.

I had fun in a couple art classes and one on one art therapy sessions that I took but I got so frustrated because what I wanted to draw was not what the teacher thought I should be working on. and she was interpreting my drawings for what they weren't based on her psych training that if a tree takes up most of the page the person is intimidated by the "tree" and the "tree" represents the authority figure the person is afraid of. Well thats bull for me Im not intimidated by trees and trees don't represent any authority figures for me. I just happen to like big trees that I can lay under and look up through the branches and watching the sun through the leaves and how the breeze makes the leaves look is so cool moving around.

I learn more about what is going on in my head just by picking up a marker and putting dots on the page and then connecting them at random and then coloring in the shapes that I see on the paper. There is actually a psych test where you look at a picture and see what you see - its called roarshacks (spelled wrong) ink blots.

I hope the insurance comes through for you but if it doesn't you can always draw, paint and so on on your own. there is nothing that says you can't pick up a paint brush and just paint just because you want to what you are hearing and seeing and so on.

hang in there