Mike Mainwaring

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location_on Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA6 5BA
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About me

I’m Mike Mainwaring, I have worked with children and young people for over 30 years specialising in substance misuse, mental health, sexuality and gender and working with teenagers. I have worked in various settings such as street drug projects, prisons and young offender institutes, residential rehabilitation, outreach work, play, youth work, managed housing projects and run youth councils. I am a practicing artist and a trained Art Psychotherapist. I qualified in 2024. I am gay, a trans ally and Cis gendered. I love to garden, use herbs for medicine and read poetry.

Training, qualifications & experience

The therapeutic approach I use is person-centred, I am non-directive and am led by the client. I have worked with LGBT young people using art therapy to explore issues around gender, sexuality, identity, self-harm, suicidal thoughts an d eating disorders. I have worked with women in groups around issues of domestic abuse.

  • MA in Art Psychotherapy
  • University of South Wales 2024
  • Foundation in Psychotherapy and Counselling
  • New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling 2007

Member organisations

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Areas of counselling I deal with

Therapies offered

Fees

£45.00 per session

Additional information

£35.00 for students

Further information

Approaches:

  • Art therapy
  • Existential
  • Humanistic
  • Psychodynamic

707 Clydach Road, Ynystawe, Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA6 5BA

Type of session

In person
Mike Mainwaring
Mike Mainwaring