Working outside, and with nature, helps us to think about what’s happening on the inside.   

“When we sow a seed, we plant a narrative of future possibility.”
Sue Stuart-Smith, ‘The Well Gardened Mind’

Outdoor Art Psychotherapy sessions with me take place in a beautiful, secure and private outdoor setting, benefitting from a large patchwork canvas of wild areas, a meadow, an orchard, and a therapeutic allotment for clients to grow edible and non-edible plants.

Nature is forgiving, nurturing, robust, redemptive, symbolic, evolving, and expansive.  It can tolerate death, illness, grief, sadness, despair, horror, and inexplicable suffering.  It welcomes emotions that we feel other places and people cannot tolerate, and is therefore particularly helpful for people who have endured traumatic experiences.

Here, you’ll have the opportunity to slow down, open up, dig clay, ground yourself, source water, make fire, make amends, take shelter, say goodbye, find shade, create anew, and nurture growth…

How do these sessions work?

These sessions will allow you to work in your own time alongside the natural world, reflecting on the seasons, the cycles of nature, the elements, found objects, and the landscape.  I use therapeutic processes alongside art-making, combining them with my training and expertise in working outdoors.

We will work outside whatever-the-weather, so suitable outdoor and wet-weather clothing will be needed.  (If financial hardship is a barrier, I can provide this for you.)

Who can access these sessions?

Nature does not discriminate and working outdoors is helpful for everyone, regardless of age, background, experience, or identity.  I work with individual adults, children, and young people, as well as couples and groups.

Where do sessions take place?

The therapeutic site is situated in Backwell, set in the North Somerset countryside on the outskirts of Bristol.  It is accessible by car, bus and train, and is located on a bicycle route.

If you’d like to find out more about Outdoor Art Psychotherapy or arrange a visit to the site, please do get in touch.