Art Auction and Show

We're having another art show opening with a silent auction for First Friday's Art Walk. Hopefully we'll get people out to see us. We are doing better in our practice. I think we all made rent this month!! yeah!!!
Wonder what about the idea of art therapy or creative therapies puts people off. Why does it seem as if it is not real therapy? I practice both art therapy and traditional psychotherapy and art therapy is definately less emotionally invasive for the client to deal with issues. And it builds up self-esteem while it deals with pain and fears. Something the client can't get with traditional therapy that delves into one and expects reciprication and the development of insight. Art and other creative therapies do that as well but also give the client a safer and more creative avenue to express it in. The creation of art also provides a means to sublimate internalized fears and anger ... through the creation of a product in which to capture the expression. This capturing of fears, truamas, anger, etc. allows the client to face these issues as a mangable thing, something small enough to fit on a page.
But art therapy also allows so much more to get past the internal censors and so perhaps that is why it is scarier for people to participate in it. They know instinctively more of them will "show" so to speak. And so they dismiss it.