Art therapy provides a confidential and nonjudgmental space for self exploration in the presence of an appropriate trained mental health practitioner. Art making in the psychotherapy session offers the chance to be reflective, creative and hands-on. Expressing through images may help you identify your difficulties and find new ways to cope. Art therapy may encourage you to cultivate creative problem-solving skills, feel more relaxed, and heal past (childhood) trauma.

In art psychotherapy we undertake the task of making the unconscious conscious; to realise some of our deepest fantasies, fears, and desires. By doing so we might break our patterns and gain a certain level of freedom over our options and choices. In addition, we take on another task and that is to “create meaning together”. By looking together with the art therapist on some aspects of our life and emotions we attempt to make sense of our individual experiences.