An expressive arts therapist works across several creative forms rather than settling on just one, drawing on visual art, movement, music, writing and drama according to whatever suits the person and the particular moment in the work. This flexibility is the point of the approach: where a single medium feels limiting, or where someone finds one creative form intimidating and another far more approachable, expressive arts therapy can move between them within the same piece of work.
No skill required, and no product expected
No artistic skill is needed for this kind of therapy, and it is worth being clear that the work is never about producing anything conventionally good. A scribbled drawing or a few disconnected movements can carry exactly as much value in the work as a carefully composed piece, since the process matters far more than the result.
A title to check carefully
It is worth noting that expressive arts therapy is not among the arts therapy titles protected by law in the UK, unlike art therapy, music therapy and dramatherapy specifically, so it is worth checking a practitioner's registration and training directly rather than assuming legal protection applies here in the way it does for those related titles.