It’s important to find the right person to work with when you’re seeking support.
My therapeutic approach is based on supporting people to better understand themselves and their relationships with others, by giving you the space, time, and materials to share how you see and feel the world from your perspective. Through art-making, talking, and expressive and embodied processes, together we can reflect on your experiences, which can lead to enriching your life in the present.
By exploring a range of art materials in a dedicated safe and confidential space, you will have the opportunity to work on personal and relational challenges or barriers, and deeply-held matters which arise through the process of Art Psychotherapy. This can be an informative, affirming and rewarding experience.
Your life stories are unique to you and so you will bring your individual experiences to Art Psychotherapy. Although not exhaustive, it might be helpful to know that I have experience working in the following areas:
- Trauma (including chronic, developmental, acute, and complex trauma experiences)
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Work-related issues (e.g. stress, professional relationships)
- Perinatal and maternal experiences (e.g. fears around pregnancy and child birth, pregnancy and birth trauma, attachment and bonding, grief and loss, and fertility)
- Children, teens, and young people (e.g. identity, relational, emotional, social, and behavioural issues)
- Family units and groups (e.g. parenting, intergenerational relationships and trauma, sibling relationships)
- Learning disabilities
- Relationships, sex and intimacy (e.g. relationship breakdowns, infidelity, shame, couples and other forms of consensual relationships, desire, dysfunction)
- Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)
- Cult survivors and those with experiences of organised religion
- Psychosis and hearing voices
- Experiences of childhood trauma, including abuse and neglect
- Experiences of domestic and sexual violence
- The body and shame (e.g. disordered eating and self-harm)
- Women’s health across the lifespan (e.g. perimenopause, menopause)
- Displacement and asylum-seeking experiences
- Illness and health-related issues
- Death and bereavement
- Identity, intersectionality and culture (e.g. racial, ethnic, religious, spiritual, social, political, gender, and sexual experiences)
You are not required to have prior experience of art-making or psychotherapy. The notion of making art might seem daunting at first, but it may also be comforting to remind yourself that self-expression and creativity are a regular feature of life; it’s in the way you make a cup of tea, take a walk, daydream, choose to wear your clothes, or how you write an email.
If you’d like to find out more about Art Psychotherapy or working with me, please do get in touch. Initially, we will have a free 15-minute phone consultation to discuss your reasons for seeking Art Psychotherapy and for you to ask any questions you may have. After this, we would meet in person (or online) for an initial session to further explore what you would like to gain from therapy and for you to decide if I am the right therapist for you.
