Art Therapy and Bereavement

Did you know that All Care Hospice provides free individual and group bereavement services to hospice families, as well as members of the community that may also be in need?

Grief can be an overwhelming and all-consuming experience, resulting in difficulty managing daily routine for weeks, months, or even years. A client once shared that although the size and scope of her grief had not been lessened, art therapy bereavement counseling helped her grow as an individual around and beyond it. Art therapy can provide the bereaved an opportunity to safely communicate their grief in ways that may otherwise be difficult to verbalize. Grief is an emotion that we will all experience. Communication, through both verbal and visual means, can help to facilitate positive coping approaches.

Teeing off for a Worthy Cause!

For the past 25 years, All Care VNA & Hospice, together with community partners and supporters, will tee off at Gannon Golf Course for their annual Charity Golf Open to raise money to provide home care and hospice services for those in need.

Proceeds from the 25th annual June 26th event will benefit countless patients and families throughout the North Shore, Greater Boston, and Merrimack Valley.

Art Therapy Intern Shares Hospice Experience

By: Brianna Babick Susan Langer said, “Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.” I appreciate this definition of art for its simplicity. As a second year graduate student studying Expressive Therapies at Lesley University, I‘ve had the privilege of...