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Express Yourself

The McClendon Center’s expressive therapy activities facilitate self-awareness and connections between consumers.  Through dance, drama, yoga, music, drawing, and painting, consumers find a greater ease in expressing themselves through these non-verbal activities.  Often, consumers who initially tend to be unresponsive to group discussions soon find that they are able to identify their concerns and interact with other group members through expressive therapies.

Traditional psycho-educational approaches stimulate one part of the brain, primarily the areas that deal with language.  Expressive therapies allow individuals to access psychological information by stimulating non-verbal brain functions.  By promoting creativity and self-discovery, insight can be gained into one’s life situation.  As this happens, connections are made between one’s physical, visual, mental, and emotional realms.  The Center provides a variety of movement and dance therapy groups, a range of art therapy groups, and music groups that facilitate engagement, thereby increasing social interaction, self-esteem, and confidence.