Art Psychotherapy and Supervision
Newark, East Midlands (UK) & Online
Art psychotherapy (also known as art therapy) combines psychotherapy with art-making — drawing, painting, or sculpting — to help people express and explore complex thoughts, emotions and trauma.
You don't need to be artistic. The focus isn't on technical skill, but on the creative process itself — what emerges as you work, what you discover, and how making art can help you process difficult emotions and deepen self-awareness.
Because art psychotherapy doesn't depend on spoken language, it's suitable for all ages, and can be particularly useful for people who have experienced trauma. Any artwork made in sessions is confidential.
In art therapy, an art psychotherapist guides and supports you through this process, creating a safe space for exploration and growth. Art psychotherapists are registered with the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) — the statutory regulator for the profession in the UK. This register ensures safety and best practice by holding registrants to set standards of proficiency, training, and conduct.
Democracy involves authentic, collective dialogue. As art psychotherapists, we know dialogue isn't just words — it includes silences, behaviour, and creativity too.
Art making offers an accessible way for individuals and communities to find and magnify their authentic voice. In a large art therapy group, this can enable true democratic dialogue — elevating awareness, deepening insight, and creating meaningful social change.
In community, large-group art making can help bridge polarisation safely, and help us understand how the past shapes the present. Its effects can be far-reaching, long-lasting, and sustainable.
In 2025, I created a zine — a creative response to group analytic experience, and part of large group dialogue in visual form. Not all dialogue is verbal: this zine was shaped by the voices, silences, and stories that emerge when people come together in a group. [Take a look here].
Supervision is a supportive space to reflect and think together about your therapy work, ensuring client welfare and supporting your development as an art psychotherapist. It centres your work and the people you work with — thinking too about spaces, group dynamics, and the wider world we find ourselves in. Ethical practice is at its heart.
My approach is conversational, psychodynamic and group analytic. Through sharing experience, we deepen our understanding in meaningful conversation. I encourage creative responses, and we can make art within supervision if you'd like — and I welcome conversations about how the work and training affects you, professionally and personally.
Supervision isn't a tick-box exercise. It's a valuable, nourishing space that supports psychotherapists' work sustainably.
For community organisations, supervision helps ensure your work is trauma-informed — offering reflective space, an additional safeguarding measure, support for learning, and protection against burnout.
To begin, contact me by email communityarttherapist@gmail.com and we can arrange a time to talk.
Our first conversation — thirty minutes, free of charge — is a chance to ask questions and think together about whether I might be the right therapist for you.
Please let me know your name and reason for contacting me, and I'll respond as quickly as possible. My working hours are generally 9.30am–3pm, Monday to Friday.
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