Expressive and Creative Arts Therapies Foundational Full Session Packet

This worksheet packet gives new and developing therapists a complete roadmap for using expressive and creative arts therapies with youth and young adults. It includes clear session plans, guided activities, structured prompts, and a concluding assessment tool that helps providers track growth and plan next steps.

The packet breaks down each step of the expressive arts process in a simple, practical way. It helps clinicians and facilitators build rapport, explore cultural identity, set goals, collaborate with clients, and use music, art, writing, movement, drama, and narrative tools with confidence. Each theme comes with ready to use activities for resilience, communication, emotional regulation, social skills, confidence, conflict resolution, and more.

The final worksheet supports closure and reflection. It helps the facilitator capture client progress, identify strengths, name ongoing challenges, choose effective modalities, and create a forward plan for skill use outside of therapy.

This packet is ideal for:

• Beginner therapists
• Youth program and expressive arts coaches and facilitators
• School based providers
• Community mental health workers
• Creative and Expressive arts therapists in training

It is clean, structured, and easy to use in both individual and group settings and ca be easily adapted for your specific program needs. The packet removes the guesswork in facilitating an alternative and holistic therapeutic workshop, significantly boosts confidence, and supports meaningful, creative work with youth and young adults from the very first session to the final wrap up.