Alternative support
What Is Alternative Support?
Alternative support aims to provide means and ways of promoting wellbeing, mental clarity, connection with our inner self through creative freedom of expression, enhancing our focus on the process and detecting its impact on the inside as it is happening, as well as afterwards.
What Activities Does It Include?
It includes practices such as Art Therapy, Play Therapy, Drama Therapy, Music Therapy, Yoga and Meditation, Horticultural Therapy, Cooking Therapy and Sports. The emphasis is placed on noticing things while doing an activity that gives us the space to experiment, expand our perspective and transform personal narratives.
In What Cases Does It Offer Better Support To Traditional Therapy?
Complex Trauma: Impactful life events that shake us to our core and make it difficult to explain things verbally. Finding Your Voice Through Activity and Experiment. Oftentimes, we get lost in events and circumstances outside of our control. Under their influence, the story we tell ourselves about our life and identity can be reduced to a space receptive to influences of fear and anxiety that gives little room for our essence to shine.
Chronic Stress: It disrupts our normal functioning and daily activities, affecting both physical and psychological wellbeing. Through alternative support, we get to find more suitable ways of practicing activities that help establish healthier lifestyle and ways of dealing with stressors, improving our resilience. Natural Cognitive Preference Of Expressing Things In Creative Ways.