Art therapy is becoming increasingly popular; coloring books to relieve stress can now be bought even in supermarkets. However, this method is much more complex and deeper than it might seem at first glance. The author of the term “art therapy” in 1938 was the artist Adrian Hill, when he discovered that drawing has a healing effect for patients. The prerequisites for the emergence of art therapy were Freud’s ideas about the expression of the inner “I” through intuitive creativity and the sublimation of one’s manifestations in it. Art therapy is a form of expressive therapy that, through the creative process of creating a product, leads to improvements in a person's physical, mental and emotional well-being. This is one of the most environmentally friendly, enjoyable and effective methods of awareness and behavior transformation. Art therapy combined artistic and psychological activities, resulting in a wide variety of methods based on it. In some countries (USA, UK and others), different forms of creative art therapy are considered separate independent specialties. There are such areas as: isotherapy, phototherapy, mask therapy, bibliotherapy, drama therapy, music therapy, color therapy, origami, sand therapy, working with clay, fairy tale therapy. In foreign art therapy, a fairly developed theory and methodology is the dynamic-oriented model. Among the domestic methods of psychotherapy that use the factor of creative activity, creative self-expression therapy by M.E. stands out. Stormy and systemic art therapy A.I. Kopytin thanks to a deeply developed theory, methodology and evidence base. According to the form of delivery, several types of art therapy can be defined: Individual art therapeutic consultation. Group art therapy. It combines individual, joint creative activity and visual activity of participants, where there is often a joint discussion of paintings, group discussions on material created by group members; Family art therapy. This form, unlike family counseling, includes the active use of visual aids. They serve as the basis for analysis, discussion, identifying the peculiarities of interaction between family members, for diagnosing and correcting family relationships. During the art therapy process, awareness of the client’s experiences occurs. Art helps to simultaneously express and transform complex feelings such as anger, pain, anxiety, and fear. In art therapy, there are various practices that facilitate a person's emotional expression. Of these, the most common are: Collage: the client uses magazines, photographs, books, brochures, etc., and the art therapist guides the client to cut out and paint images and stories that he finds difficult to talk about. Phototherapy: helps the patient contact past experiences through personal photographs, albums, video production. Family sculpture: work with clay or any other sculptural material, where the client must imagine each family member. The size and shape of the figures can also symbolically show the relationship between the members. Theoretical ideas themselves are not so important in the process of work; all the actions of the psychotherapist are aimed at helping the client expose internal conflicts, who are often simply not able to independently understand and realize their Problems. The birth of this understanding and awareness occurs through drawing, play, collage, photography, fairy tale, movement. These actions increase the person’s focus on his inner world and help him understand what is happening. With the help of the prism of the images that he created, mental processes are metaphorically reflected, awareness occurs gently, bypassing internal defenses. Creating a product brings the client into an active position, the approach allows you to increase self-esteem, relieve tension, develop creative abilities, and see hidden possibilities and resources in yourself. The goal of the process is not to improve the skill of drawing, not to interpret the symbols of the drawing by the therapist,.