Indoor Art Therapy
You may be comfortable using art materials but don’t worry if you’re not– just come along with a willingness to try a different way of expressing what’s going on for you. You’ll be offered a choice of art materials. It may be that you come to the session with something specific you want to create but it is often the spontaneous creations that provide the greatest insight. We will sit together and consider what your art work means to you.
Your session is an opportunity to reflect, explore and use your imagination. Often people bring their dreams into the sessions.
Each session lasts an hour and we will generally meet once
a week.
a week.
On occasion, engaging with art therapy can be unsettling and bring up painful feelings. I will make every effort to support you through these difficult periods.
Outdoor Art Therapy
We all recognise how being out in nature makes us feel better, but sometimes it can also be a good place to make sense of our inner world. With the outdoor sessions,
we can work in ‘nearby’ nature e.g. parks, close to the River Frome near my home or if you have a favourite green place you like being in, it may be possible to work there.
we can work in ‘nearby’ nature e.g. parks, close to the River Frome near my home or if you have a favourite green place you like being in, it may be possible to work there.
In the outdoor sessions you can use conventional art materials or forage for natural ones, making art from what you have found. You also have the option of working with locally harvested wild clay which can be fired afterwards. The latter is often associated with powerful themes of transformation.
You may just want to walk and talk or sit and reflect together. There are so many potent metaphors that nature can provide to support us to understand ourselves a little better.
