Quiz: What’s Your Creative Coping Style?

Written By Irene Maropakis

Everyone has a unique way of processing stress and healing. At Enodia Therapies, we celebrate your individual creative strengths as pathways to wellbeing. Take this 2-minute quiz to discover your natural creative coping style, find personalized wellness tips, and learn how holistic or somatic art therapy can help support your mental health journey.

When you’re feeling overwhelmed, you feel most drawn to:

  • a) Picking up paints, pencils, or collage materials

  • b) Pouring thoughts and feelings onto paper

  • c) Moving—stretching, dancing, or taking mindful breaths

  • d) Listening to or making music, or surrounding yourself with calming sounds

Which environment feels most soothing after a stressful day?

  • a) A bright, colorful studio or art space

  • b) A cozy nook with a journal and pen

  • c) An open room or park where you can move freely

  • d) A soft-lit space with gentle music playing

To process emotions, you usually:

  • a) Express them through drawing, painting, or visual symbols

  • b) Write to understand and release what’s on your mind

  • c) Tune in to your body, noticing how emotions feel physically

  • d) Let music move through you—whether playing, singing, or simply listening

Which of these brings you the most joy?

  • a) Bringing images to life on paper or canvas

  • b) Reflecting on your growth through past journal entries or poems

  • c) Feeling centered and grounded after mindful movement or breathwork

  • d) Creating or getting lost in a favorite piece of music

Results:
Tally which answer you chose most often.

Mostly A’s: Visual Storyteller

You channel emotion through images and color, finding meaning and calm in the act of making art. Visual creative processes like drawing, painting, collage, and art journaling are deeply soothing for you.

What does that look like in therapy?
In therapy, you might begin sessions with a mindful art-making prompt—such as choosing colors to reflect your mood, creating a “safe space” drawing, or using collage to explore complex emotions. Together, we’ll review your artwork as a gateway to discussing feelings and tracking progress, even if words are hard to find.

Mostly B’s: Word Weaver

Journaling, poetry, or creative writing helps you process and release feelings. Writing lets you gain insight, release emotions, and tell your story in a safe space.

What does that look like in therapy?
Therapy sessions may begin with expressive writing prompts, such as stream-of-consciousness journaling, letter writing, or crafting personal affirmations. We might use story-building techniques, narrative reframing, or poetry to unpack worries and foster resilience, always at your own pace.

Mostly C’s: Somatic Explorer

You find grounding through movement, breath, and body awareness. Somatic therapy and movement-based creative arts—like dance, yoga, or body mapping—support your healing journey.

What does that look like in therapy?
Your sessions may begin with body scans, gentle stretches, or creative movement to connect with bodily sensations. You might use painting or clay to “map” emotions on a body outline, or learn mindful breathing and grounding rituals that help you move through stress and anxiety with compassion.

Mostly D’s: Musical Alchemist

Music, rhythm, and sound-based practices help you regulate emotions and transform stress. You may play, sing, or soak up sound to feel safe and centered.

What does that look like in therapy?
You might open sessions with listening to music, drumming, or creating soundscapes with simple instruments. Together, we’ll explore how songs, rhythms, and tunes can express difficult feelings, support relaxation, and even inspire art-making or movement guided by music.


Your creative coping style is a gift! At Enodia Therapies, we tailor creative therapy experiences so you can heal in the way that feels most natural to you. Wondering what this could look like in your life?
Book a free phone consultation or browse more resources to discover our holistic approach. Your healing journey starts here.



Irene Maropakis

Licensed Creative Arts Therapist / Founder of Enodia Therapies

I specialize in working with creative highly sensitive people who deal with depression and anxiety. I am LGBTQIA+ affirming, feminist, sex-positive, and work from a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, multiculturally sensitive, & intersectional approach towards holistic embodied healing and life empowerment. Together we will process your experiences, change unhelpful narratives, and develop harmony and balance within yourself. I work as witness in helping you develop a more nuanced inner dialogue to move from a place of confusion and disconnection towards self-compassion and healing.

https://enodiatherapies.com
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