If you have good art skills it could be very worthwhile for you, if you like helping people. Art therapy is a very powerful way of working with clients. You utilize art skills with your clients to access and heal through their subconscious mind.

ART is focused primarily on replacing disturbing images with positive ones, whereas EMDR aims to both desensitize client distress and reprocess traumatic events. Both of these treatments utilize eye movements to reprocess traumatic images and sensations.

A key difference between art therapy and art as a therapeutic approach is the latter is generally self-prescribed and self-directed.

Art therapy was being practiced in the United States around the same time, with the most influential North American practitioners being educator Margaret Naumburg and artist Edith Kramer. Naumburg linked art to the expression of the unconscious through free association.