Art Therapy with Selin Basmacı Habip

Selin is doing both one to one and group art therapy sessions. She is also a member of art therapy team in Lape psychiatry hospital.

Selin deeply believes in the healing power of art and sees art therapy as a gateway for tapping into one’s inner wisdom and making a gentle contact with the unknown, untouched, unsaid and unreachable parts of one’s self. Selin uses a combination of expressive arts therapy techniques including visual arts such as painting, drawing, sculpting as well as writing and movement. While art on its own is a therapeutic process, focusing on one’s inner-self, making art and then forming a dialog with the artwork by the guidance of an art therapy practitioner cultivating a strong self-awareness is what distinguishes art therapy.

No art skill is needed for these sessions as the aim is being able to express oneself without a filter like a kid. We call it “low skill high sensitivity”.