Why is art therapy needed? Art therapy is a direction of psychological correction, which is based on the use of creativity to influence the psycho-emotional state. With the help of art therapy, a child can find a special space in which they can share their emotions and feelings with a psychologist through their symbolic expression. Art therapy cannot “cure” psycho-emotional disorders, but it is an auxiliary method in working with children. The method helps relieve stress, correct emotional instability and impulsivity. Thanks to art therapy, a child can work through aggression, anxiety, fears, feelings of loneliness, and dissatisfaction with family relationships in a form accessible to him. Also, art therapy helps to increase self-esteem and develop the “I” concept. In the work of a psychologist, children are a special category, since they cannot express their experiences and needs in words. But what a child cannot say with speech, he can draw or sculpt as the symbolic content of his own experiences and thus react to it. Even when working with adults, you can find that a person cannot always explain what he feels; what specifically caused the anxiety, irritation; how he relates to interpersonal or internal conflict. The child either has not yet learned to recognize his feelings so that he can talk about them due to his age (reflection is not yet developed), or due to mental characteristics he cannot. When a child does not know what he is experiencing, or is unable to name and identify the reasons why something is bothering him, he cannot explain what is happening to him and ask for help. “In the world of words, that which has no name does not exist...” How does art therapy work? Conceptually, art therapy is based on psychoanalytic views, according to which the final product of artistic activity (drawing or sculpture) is considered an expression of mental processes that are not accessible for consciousness and verbal response, but available for expression in symbolic, figurative form. If mental phenomena do not have the opportunity to be responded to, an accumulation of affect occurs, which creates strong psycho-emotional tension. Drawing or modeling represent an accessible and safe way to discharge psycho-emotional tension “here and now”. Thus, the child works through negative emotional states (for example, aggression) in in a socially acceptable form, can “tell” a psychologist about his inner world through symbols and images on paper. Both for the corrective effect and for the possibility of subsequent diagnosis, it is necessary that the child has the opportunity to independently choose colors, draw spontaneously, visual techniques must be abstract . In the process of art therapy itself, the specific method is not so important - the child can sculpt, draw, play, etc.".