Art Therapy

Art Therapy can help children and young people to make sense of sad, angry, painful or confusing thoughts and feelings. Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses visual and tactile media to support you to express and communicate emotions, or experiences.

Art therapy can support people of all ages and abilities and at all stages of life, to discover an outlet for often complex and confusing feelings, and foster self awareness and growth. Art therapists use their masters level training to work directly with psychological issues such as anxiety and low mood.

Art therapy can offer children and young people a safe way to work through mental health issues. This is a recognised psychological intervention and holds its place within the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Dramatherapy is a form of Psychotherapy. Dramatherapists are both clinicians and artists that draw on their knowledge of theatre and therapy to use as a medium for psychological therapy. 

Dramatherapy sessions may include drama, story-making, music, movement, and art; to work with any issue that has presented itself.

Children and Young People are able to explore a wide variety of different issues and needs from autism to anxiety, to physical/sexual abuse and mental illness in an indirect way leading to psychological, emotional and social changes.

Dramatherapists work with their clients using a very wide range of dramatic techniques in verbal and non-verbal ways. Though vocalisation, storymaking and talk are integral parts of dramatherapy, the practice does not necessarily rely on spoken language alone to resolve what a pupil, client, or patient may wish to address, explore or to seek support with.  Embodiment and movement are also vital in our practice. Dramatherapists work therapeutically with a diverse range of individuals, groups and organisations who experience significant difficulties.

Dramatherapists are registered and regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) having undertaken a Masters level training with an approved course at a university. Many are trained supervisors and are often employed to offer supervision to community artists employed in arts in health and wellbeing roles.