Creative Arts Therapy

Many people find that being creative can help with their mental health challenges, and in helping them explore and express their sometimes difficult and/or not fully known thoughts and feelings. 

Using the arts and creative therapies, and led and supported by a therapist, you don’t need to have any skills or experience in art or in being creative, just a willingness to turn up and allow yourself to try. People of any age can benefit, young and old alike. 

The aim being to help you to communicate thoughts and feelings that you find difficult to put into words and to come to a deeper understanding or a revealing of your issue.

Creative Psychotherapy can help you feel more comfortable attending therapy and help make sense of things, in turn understanding yourself better.

This way of supporting can give you a safe time and place with someone who won't judge you but help you find new ways to look at problems or difficult situations.

Creative Psychotherapy can also help you to talk about complicated feelings or difficult experiences and see things in a new way.

We might use pens, pencils, crayons, paint, chalk, clay or collaging. Using photos or videos or journalling, we could try creative writing and/or poem writing.

We also use stones, crystals and/or materials and cloths with different colours and textures and photos, both black and white and colour.

Not everything you do will need to have a meaning, for some it can just be a relaxing and safe place, a time for themselves to explore going deeper within.