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Both Art Therapy and Counselling are forms of Psychotherapy. I have completed Masters degrees in both disciplines.
I offer either Art Therapy or Counselling (and sometimes it works well to move freely between both modalities) for:
Change (both wanted and unwanted)
Ambivalence around change
Life-transitions
Personal growth
Chronic illness
Mortality
Bereavement
Loss
Trauma & Grief
Stress
Anxiety and depression
Loss of self
Loss of meaning
Loneliness
Relational difficulties
Creative block
Paranormal experience, such as Near-Death Experience
My experience includes 12-years working in Palliative Care, in both hospital and community-based situations, so I am aware of the stress, trauma and grief that can be caused by unwanted change and unexpected loss.
Existential confrontation can be traumatic, and trauma involves multiple dimensions of loss and accompanying grief reactions. All loss involves loss of relationship, whether loss of relationship with self, with other, or with one's worldview. A sense of dread, loneliness, and loss of meaning often results.
Psychotherapy ultimately aims to expand self-awareness and gain insight into one's life through self-expression, self-exploration and self-reflection, to restore or renew sense of self and/or lost meanings, to improve relational experience, and to teach skills for on-going self-management.
Psychotherapy promotes personal growth.
The therapeutic approaches I use include:
Psychodynamic
Existential
Expressive techniques (art making and self-expressive writing)
Mindfulness
Sensorimotor
Meditation
Psychological education is a key part of my approach to psychotherapy - I like to think my clients learn a great deal, not just about themselves, but about human life in general.
Ideally, through psychotherapy, one develops a personal philosophy, or orientation to life.