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Creative Arts

For STL- Call the Whole Health scheduling line at (314) 289-6583 to learn more.

For MARION- Call the Whole Health scheduling line at (618) 993-4147 to learn more.

Creative/Expressive Arts is a discipline of helping and healing that uses the arts as its basis for discovery and change. All five disciplines of the arts: visual, dance/movement, music, drama/theater, and writing/poetry help open the senses and assists patients in accessing their imagination so they can find their own resources that they hold within themselves.

Creative/Expressive arts is a health and wellness approach under Whole Health, but managed by Recreation Therapy/Creative Arts Therapy. Creative Arts therapists include Art Therapists, Dance Therapists, Drama Therapists, and Music Therapists.

Art

Creative Writing

Music

Photography

The National Veterans Creative Arts Festival is open to all Veterans receiving services from the VA. Contact your local Recreation or Creative Arts Therapist for more information.