Table 2.

Categories of balance.

Category	Illustration by quote and frequently used words	Description
Feeling	T5 (Client 4): “It is made very fast so I wonder if this client made this from a feeling or a memory? Does this client pay attention to how it felt to make this product? Does the client recognize to be in the “fast lane” often? So it is about feeling. I imagine this was made by a more disinhibited expressive person. It seems the client lost grip on itself a bit.” Being overwhelmed, feeling, lost in emotions, affective, not in control of emotions, uncontrolled, under regulation of emotions	Feeling refers to affects and emotions and the ability to allow experience and express these. Feeling can be differentiated between “impulsive expression” (physically acting on feeling) and “emotional expression” (allowing and experiencing feeling).
Thought	T2 (Client 1): “The need to control, shape raised from an idea, it is planned, thoughtful, restrained.” Ratio, cognitive, controlling emotions, need for predictability and structure, controlled, from the head, not feeling, analytical, thoughtful, over regulation of emotion, frantic, neurotic, planned.	Thought refers to cognitions and cognitive processes that are related to cognitive control.

T, therapist; AP, art product.