Sometimes it’s helpful to step away from daily life for a few days to work through an issue—for example, by painting for a whole week at a time. This approach can be particularly effective for “painting through” trauma. Developmental trauma, however, tends to require more time and different approaches to make meaningful progress. In such cases, regular painting sessions are recommended.
Guided Painting and Solution-Oriented Painting (LOM®) are recognized art therapy methods. The focus is on creating images that can touch and move us, rather than on their meanings. The work takes place directly with the image and in collaboration with the artist during the painting process, without interpretations or explanations.
GUIDED PAINTING:
Start and let the image guide and surprise you.
This leads to the exciting creation of images that are NEW, and thus creates space for creativity, transformative effects, and truly new solutions.
Through guidance, the processes, sudden breaks, and entirely new possibilities are brought to consciousness, so that genuine choices emerge. The interventions lead the painters beyond their learned limits.
SOLUTION-ORIENTED PAINTING:
When thinking no longer helps, we need something that can lead us to new, unexpected experiences and solutions.
Solution-Oriented Painting LOM® is a form of short-term therapy in which concerns can be clarified and resolved directly through painting, using a structured method and going beyond conventional paths.
You can choose whether you simply want to schedule a single session (90 minutes) or opt directly for a longer individual therapy sequence of 4 days.
During these 4 days, you can decide for yourself how much you would like to work.
To truly address an issue effectively, I recommend at least 12 hours. (€80 per hour, €150 per 2 hours)