My Qualifications
I have a Masters degree in Art Psychotherapy and a Masters degree in Fine Art. I undertake regular Continual Professional Development (CPD) to keep my clinical practice up-to-date and relevant for the people I work with. This also helps me to enhance my knowledge around my areas of special interest.
I am duty-bound to the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), fully insured, and have an enhanced DBS.
I am an independent Art Psychotherapist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the British Association Of Art Therapists (BAAT). I also work as an artist and curator in community settings, teach in higher education, and am a director of The Homeland Project (CIC).
I currently manage the Art Psychotherapy provision at Raphael Centre, a supported living centre for adults with Learning Disabilities, and the creative health referral route for a pilot service driven by the Bristol North Somerset and South Gloucestershire’s NHS Integrated Care Board offering a community-based social prescribing approach to improving outcomes of vulnerable children and young people in the region. Working alongside community-based organisations including creativeShift, the Bristol Folk House and Southmead Development Trust, I manage and deliver several wellbeing arts initiatives for adults, children and young people across Bristol and North Somerset supporting the area’s Social Prescribing services.
I work at the intersections of the Art Therapy profession and the Arts in Health sector, helping to design, develop and deliver services, collaborating with service users and consulting with organisations including the NHS. You can read more about this here.
With an interest in furthering a greater understanding of the therapeutic arts and better access to a fair creative health care system, I am invited to advise, write about, and present on the subject. I am a visiting lecturer at the University of South Wales and the University of the West of England, and have have received grants for my research. I specialise in working with clay and working outdoors.
If you are interested in exploring Art Psychotherapy, you can find out more about working with me here.
My Experience
I have worked creatively and holistically with adults, families, children, and young people in a variety of settings for over 25 years. These include in-patient NHS mental health care settings, perinatal and maternal health care, community settings, galleries and museums, outdoors, and in mainstream and special education.
I am committed to being diverse affirmative and anti-oppressive in my practice.