Artful Grieving offers a compassionate approach to navigating loss. The art therapy directives inspire a fresh insight into processing grief; addressing everything from reframing nightmares to confronting mortality and exploring unspoken words. The consistent and comprehensive activities make conversations around grief approachable and empowering. Importantly, Alicia Seymour shares ways of supporting the bereaved without imposing expectations, allowing clients to express whatever they feel in their own way.--Pamela Hayes-Malkoff

Alicia Seymour writes passionately and shares honestly, addressing a known deficit in art therapy approaches to working with grief. She sensitively addresses grief as an unpredictable but normative response to loss, in the wake of death and also from other life experiences. This book helps make art-making an accessible tool for clinicians helping grieving clients heal.--Dr. Rachel Brandoff, Ph.D, ATR-BC, ATCS LCAT (NY), LPAT (NJ)

Artful Grieving-- written from the heart and the mind-- expands and elevates how art therapists can view and approach loss and grief through these inspiring, innovative, and beautifully illustrated exercises.--David E. Gussak, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM--Florida State University, Professor of Art Therapy

This essential resource is a must read for all clinicians. Artful Grieving provides an innovative and creative framework to facilitate conversations around and promote healing from grief and loss.--Carolyn Brown Treadon, PhD, ATR-BC, ATCS, Graduate Program Coordinator, PennWest University