Last night in Art Therapy class we experienced the House Tree Person assessment. It was essentially developed as a personality test but it has far-reaching applications in art therapy. The person is asked to draw on a blank sheet of paper first a house, then a tree, then a person. We did this twice first using pencil and then using crayon. I drew the first tree very hunched over from the wind, it’s braches reaching over to cover someone. The second tree in crayon was much more sturdy and grounded and was reaching above and beyond itself. I did really feel like I went through a process of feeling kind of down about a certain situation in my life and that drawing the second set of sketches made me see the positive aspect of things.