What Happens in a Session?

In your first meeting with me, you will have an opportunity to discuss the difficulties you are seeking help for, and how art therapy may help you. Depending on your needs, you will either join group therapy or individual therapy. If you choose to meet face-to-face, you will be in a private room where you won’t be interrupted. Alternatively, you may meet me in an online meeting. In art therapy, participants may choose to make art while talking or be silent. When making art, participants can choose materials that best suit them, for example, paint, pastel or clay, or you might make a collage or art in nature. You may just want to talk. I may sit quietly and pay attention whilst you make art or I might make art alongside you, depending on your needs and preferences. We will also talk and think together to try to make sense of the thoughts, feelings and experiences that come up during your art-making, or when you look at your own artwork.