About

What is Art Therapy?

First of all, you don’t need to be good at art to take part in Art Therapy, and your art making won’t be judged!

Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy that can be a helpful way of expressing what can’t always be verbalised. Art making can be therapeutic and help us get in touch with our feelings. Making art with an art therapist can relieve painful feelings and help improve well-being.

I will support you to make sense of what your art making means to you. Using art materials can offer an alternative way to communicate your feelings and you may also find using the art materials relaxing and help you see your issues from a different perspective increasing your self-awareness.

I am based just outside of Mold, North Wales but also offer online therapy. I am a good listener and treat each person as an individual and I welcome people from diverse backgrounds and the LGBTQ+ community. I am non-judgemental and empathic and offer a confidential safe space working at your pace in sessions. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have, even if you just want an informal chat to help you decide if you feel my service would be helpful to you.

Art Therapists Training

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All Art Therapists are professionally trained to Masters level and have an arts background and experience of working with people. All practicing art therapists must be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). I am also a member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) which is a professional organisation supporting art therapists and providing information to the public.

For further information about Art Therapy please contact The British Association of Art Therapists http://www.baat.org

I have an up-to-date DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) certificate.

My Main Qualifications:

  • MA Art Therapy, University of Chester (2016)
  • MA Community Education with professional qualification in Youth and Community Work (1998)
  • BA (Hons) Sociology, Staffordshire University (1995)
  • DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy) Level 1 and 2
  • Dyadic Art Therapy
  • Supervision training for art therapists (BAAT)