Art Therapy

How does Art Therapy work

Art therapy invites you to express and explore yourself and your feelings. It can help reduce stress, find meaning, and deepen your self-awareness. By using non-verbal forms of communication, art therapy is particularly effective for exploring experiences that are difficult to put into words.


No prior art making experience is needed, as the focus is on the process, play, and curiosity-driven reflection. 

Art can embody person’s experiences, making them visible and easier to talk about. It can help tell your story and explore its meaning. In a therapeutic relationship based on trust and respect, difficult issues can be explored in a non-judgemental way, opening new perspectives, and fostering a deeper self-understanding and compassion.

 

In my work I support people who:

  • Struggle with overwhelming emotions
  • Feel depressed and/or anxious
  • Feel lost or burn out
  • Experience loss
  • Wish to grow more confident and self-compassionate
  • Seek to better understand themselves and to make sense of their experiences
  • Look for new ways of expression and connection

Art Therapy & Nature

Environmental art therapy draws on ecophychology, and invites us to see a person as interconnected and interdependent with the Earth. It invites to experience oneself as nature. 

This type of art therapy employs metaphor and creativity to work along the cycles of nature: 


Processes of growth 

Rebuilding after a storm

Enjoying the abundance and then letting go

Death and grieving  

Hope of new beginnings


We can find all these in our natural environment. And so nature here becomes a co-therapist, holding us, and mirroring back. 

 

The sessions are often held outdoors, in a forest or a park, but also indoors, using gathered materials from outside. Art therapy sessions outdoors invite more mindfulness as we become much more aware of our senses. Just imagine walking in a forest: all those colours, fragrances, textures and sounds! 

 

 

Just as one of the tasks of psychotherapy might be to help a client come home to themselves, perhaps one of the many tasks of ecotherapy is to explore and come home to nature, to help individuals find their place again in the great scheme of things.

- Heginworth and Nash (2020)

Clinical Supervision

I offer supervision to counsellors, psychotherapists, and art therapists—professionals who bring creative, embodied, or nature-based approaches into their work. My practice is rooted in psychodynamic theory and underpinned by a client-centred, trauma-informed perspective.


I work collaboratively to create a supervisory relationship that is supportive and reflective. Together, we can explore clinical material, creative processes, and the wider professional and relational dynamics that shape your work. My intention is to support your growth while honouring your individual style and therapeutic approach.


In addition to online sessions, I offer outdoor supervision in a local park. This is especially suited to therapists who work in nature, are interested in eco-therapy, or wish to explore supervision through an environmental art therapy lens.


I am currently undertaking COSCA-accredited training in counselling supervision and can offer reduced fees during this period.