Children & adolescents

with incurable or terminal diseases

Children & adolescents with incurable or terminal diseases

I offer art therapy for children and young people with incurable or terminal illnesses. The aim is to provide emotional support for the young person and their family. Depending on the individual situation, wishes and needs, we can work 1:1 or together with siblings, parents or other important people. With my mobile studio, I can visit you at home or in a hospital or hospice.

Learn more about Palliative Art Therapy.

Bringing joy to everyday life

Of course, art cannot remove fear or pain. But it can bring fun and lightness into everyday life and widen the range of possibilities.
It can create self-forgetting, playful moments where colorful paint is applied to paper or one’s hands are painted. Where you let sand trickle through your fingers.
The creative offerings are varied and always based on the wishes, needs and possibilities of the child or young person.

What does a soul look like?

What color and shape is it? Does it have wings? What does it mean to be dead? Where are you then? And can your beloved guinea pig go with you when you die? Painting and creative play is the language of the child’s soul, and children naturally turn to this language when they are troubled or stressed. Themes such as dying, saying goodbye, and death can be found directly and indirectly in pictures, molded or handmade shapes and figures, and fictional stories. Art therapy allows children and teens with terminal illnesses to explore what is important to them in an age-appropriate way and at their own pace in a safe environment.

More quality of life

Working with artistic media allows

• Experience childlike, playful aspects
• Gain new strength
• Experience themselves as self-effective and capable of action
• to experience oneself as self-effective and capable of action
• to get in touch with possible inner isolation and to counteract it
• To bring feelings and the incomprehensible into shapes and colors and to sort them out internally.
• To deal with stressful experiences and questions
• Leave the daily routine of the hospital or a stressful family situation behind for a while.