Maybe your therapist hasn't said much about your artwork because she doen't know what you are looking for. Sometimes commenting on a clients artwork can backfire for example when the one was trying to read more into my artwork then ther was.my artwork is straight forwards with no hidden meanings. It just is what it is.So most therapists now don't do much on commenting about the pictures and paintings and so on they aim more at asking the client a question so that the client explains what the picture means or is to them the client. that way the therapist isn't reading more into it that isn't there leading the client to a conclusion about their artwork that isn't there.

For example You know how I have the house project going. That project is considered art therapy - its something that I made to express myself and what was going on with me and having a nightmare.

after I put what I could remember of my nightmare into the house I took pictures of it. Some pictures was the nightmare in full light so that my therapist could see what all the objects were in my nightmare and so on. then I took a blanket and a lamp. I set the lamp up so that the lighting within the nightmare depicted the same light and shadows that I saw in my nightmare I put the blanket over me and the front of the house room where my nightmare was located so that the only sourse of light was coming from inside the house(lamp). Then I took pictures of that.

I dropped the pictures off at LL's office and then when I saw her she said - These are great. Thats the only comment she made as to what she personally thought of my pictures so that she was not influencing me. Then she asked me a couple questions about the picture and nightmare like which bed was mine, did the shadow come to my bed, why the erect penis, how did I know while laying in bed and the shadow was clothed at the doorway that he had an erect penis? Questions like that, that would not lead me to her point of view of whither or not she liked the pictures or felt I should do it differently and so on.

A good therapiust doesn't make alot of comments about their clients picttures but asks the client to come to their own conclusions of if they like their artwork and what it means to them.

What you could do is when you plan to take pictures in write down what you want to get out of taking t hat picture in. For example before LL and I started talking about my nightmare and the pictures she said - "you are determined to remember aren't you?" she said this because I had told her what the purpose of this project was for - my remembering. If LL hadn't had that piece of information from me she probably would not have asked me questions about the pictures. she has a manila envelop of drawings and so on that are in her office but because I don't know where I want to go with them yet she isn't doing anything with them with me yet.

Therapists only go on what the client brings into t he sessions and if you don't tell her what you want to accomplish with what you bring in she has no way of knowing what she should be saying about them or doing about them with you.

Its kind of like having a co corker walk up to you and dropping some work in your lap and walking away without telling you what she needs you to do with that work she just handed you. The only way you will know what you need to do with that work is if the person who gave it to you says this is what I want to accomplish with this can you help me?

so pick out some artwork and decide what you want to accomplish with that and then take it in to the therapist and say I painted this and I want to..... with it.

Knowing what you want your therapist will be better able to guide you to your goal surrounding that.

Hang in there