This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I am an Art Psychotherapist with a spacious, comfortable art therapy room in Sheffield city centre, with step-free access. It is stocked with a vast range of art materials to be used freely. You do not need established creative skills to benefit from the healing and explorative nature of art-making and self-expression. Creating images can be used as a way to look deeper, or from a new perspective, and can help to communicate difficult and complex feelings.
I work in a person-centered way; this means that I focus on your needs and what you wish to bring to each session. I understand and celebrate that each person has a unique perspective, identity and way of being. I like to use strengths-based approaches that celebrates difference, and gently guide towards building a more positive sense of self. Part of my ethos is to be transparent and genuine when communicating with clients; I aim to create a safe space of authenticity and trust in which to process trauma and life’s challenges.
I am HCPC and BAAT registered, and I hold an up-to-date enhanced DBS check.
Training, qualifications & experience
I trained on The Art Therapy Northern Programme, a course then embedded in the SHSC Community Art Therapy Team.
I developed my practice in this team, working closely with highly experienced art psychotherapists. I provided one-to-one art therapy to those referred to the service; often people recently discharged from inpatient care or CAMHS services. I then went on to working on acute psychiatric wards and a psychiatric intensive care unit. Here, I provided open group (everyone welcome) 'studio-style' art therapy in communal spaces.
I am a founding member and director of newly developing community interest company, Sheffield Therapy Collective. We, as a community of therapists, aim to improve accessibility of quality support by addressing the social and financial barriers in receiving quality therapy.
Alongside my private practice, I support university students (ages 18 and over) with the challenges that complex mental health conditions and additional needs present in higher education. I also work in a specialist education secondary school, supporting neuro-diverse children and teenagers (ages 11-19). I first began supporting young people, marginalised groups, and those in institutional care in 2010 through international development charities and mental health organisations. I volunteered in projects supporting disadvantaged communities in South Africa, Honduras, Ghana and Sri Lanka.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£40.00 - £50.00
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Lower rates are offered to those on a low income or students in training. I am very happy to discuss prices in relation to your specific circumstances.
For those interested, we can arrange a short online meeting for you to get a feel for me and my practice. This is free of charge.
Further information
During my studentship, my research focused on service user movements and alternative therapeutic approaches that avoid pathologizing and othering; instead focusing on validating and strengths-based approaches. I was also interested in shadow theory, and how this can be applied broadly to 'scapegoating' in society - resulting in a blaming, misrepresentation, or disregard toward minorities, the vulnerable, or those who do not follow the socially prescribed way of being in the world.
