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Art Therapy & Activism

Season 2, Ep. 3
What makes art therapeutic? How can it help express the things that are unsaid be it dismissed, suppressed or unacknowledged? How can it help undo the harm that society can often inflict on itself? Listen in on this episode with Olatunde Spence- Art Psychotherapist and EMDR Therapist as we navigate through a range of topics from the ''black'' autistic child in school, to issues in the mental healthcare system to art as a means of therapy.


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