“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
ARTS THERAPY
When words are hard to find or simply are not enough, the creative arts can be used to express our inner and outer experiences.
Arts Therapy covers a variety of modalities, including but not limited to visual art-making, drama, writing, storytelling, movement and sound expression.
We are all artists
You may think you don’t have a creative bone in your body, but we are all innately creative beings. We know this when we witness a child at play, with an empty cardboard box, or with their hands smeared with paint.
We were all once these children, and in many ways, somewhere deep inside these parts of us are still very much alive.
The art produced in Arts Therapy may be as simple as a stick figure, a scribble or a shape, or it might be in the form of a sound, a movement or a gesture.
We do not focus on producing a masterpiece
In our sessions we focus on the often messy process, your unique experiences of what arises spontaneously in the moment, and how it connects to you and your life.
You may not think you know what is troubling you internally, yet what is communicated through the creative process and its products will tell you otherwise.
art speaks in symbols
My therapeutic practice emphasises the importance of the unconscious, and how we can strengthen our relationship to it.
When we work psychodynamically with the arts, the unconscious projects, or externalises what is internal through imagery and symbols. This material from the inner realm can then be fleshed out and understood in a space which can be both fun and surprising, yet often profoundly insightful and meaningful.
With this deeper understanding of your own symbolic inner world, and what it wants to communicate, you will be enabled to move about your outer world with a renewed sense of inner harmony.
Arts Therapy with me is an imaginative and embodied practice, that is used to address a multitude of themes and issues that might present daily, and also the heavier, existential questions of life.
Art, dreams & tarot in therapy
Art, dreams and Tarot cards, all share the same symbolic language of the unconscious.
Many of my clients enjoy and benefit from the use of Tarot cards in Arts Therapy, where I guide them through experiential and creative processes to “read” and respond to the universally symbolic imagery through their own subjective lens, through their own religious or spiritual orientation.
In addition, Arts Therapy is also highly effective for exploring your dreams and nightmares. In Dreamwork we can begin to make some sense of the often seemingly nonsensical; narratives that emerge.
Follow the links below to find out more
Dreamwork
Tarot in Therapy
Are you wanting to reconnect with your inner child through art-making and play?
Learn more about your personal symbols and their significance to you.
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