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What is Depth Psychotherapy?
Rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction or practical solutions, psychotherapy sessions with me offer a space in which thoughts, feelings, images, and patterns can be explored over time. It is a way of working that values reflection, imagination, and the gradual unfolding of meaning.
aphillipsarts
Mar 245 min read


Winnicott - Playing and Reality, and Frankel - The Adolescent Psyche
What does it mean to play in psychotherapy? And what does it mean to become , especially in adolescence? Two books that have shaped my clinical thinking in profound ways are D.W. Winnicott’s Playing and Reality and Richard Frankel’s The Adolescent Psyche . Though written in different contexts, both works invite us to reconsider how we understand psychological growth, creativity, and transformation. At their heart is a shared concern with something alive in the psyche: the sp
aphillipsarts
Feb 115 min read


50th Anniversary of Re-Visioning Psychology by James Hillman
Fifty years after James Hillman published Re Visioning Psychology, his work remains vivid, challenging, and creatively alive. This article explores Hillman’s life, ideas, and contributions to archetypal psychology, with reflections on image, soul, dreams, imagination, and the deep ecological and cultural themes that shaped his vision.
aphillipsarts
Dec 5, 202513 min read


Psychotherapy for Artists and Creatives
Art Psychotherapy for Creatives offers a supportive and imaginative space for artists, writers, musicians and performers who want to explore their inner life, creative blocks and emotional wellbeing. Working online across the UK, I provide depth oriented therapy that helps you reconnect with meaning, expression and creative confidence in a safe, reflective space.
aphillipsarts
Nov 28, 20257 min read


If you are feeling uncertain about beginning psychotherapy: Some common questions...
The fact that you know I am here to accept you just as you are, and listen carefully to whatever you tell me, doesn't mean I expect talking about your life to feel easy. It is usually not the case that a person in therapy feels they can simply 'tell me anything' at the beginning, in fact it is often not advisable to dive in too quickly. If something is difficult to talk about, we might turn our attention from the 'thing' or 'subject' you are trying to describe, towards why it
aphillipsarts
Nov 19, 202525 min read


Astrology and Depth Psychology: Finding Meaning in the Heavens
A personal reflection on how astrology and depth psychology meet within the shared language of symbolism, offering new ways to understand psyche, relationship, and meaning.
aphillipsarts
Nov 10, 20254 min read


The North Remembers - Art and Embodied Imagination | An essay by Keith Hackwood
Different landscapes in our sense of the world also speak to us differently, and here it serves us to consider the aspect of ‘North’ in Phillips’s work. Made on and of the chalklands of England’s South Downs, then nurtured and moulded in art school in South Wales (where his dissertation for his degree in Fine Art provides us with another clue - ‘Remedy in the Affliction: Beginning with the Wound’) the intervening years have slowly led the artist Northwards.
aphillipsarts
Jul 14, 202513 min read


A Robert Romanyshyn Workshop, Orpheus, and the Thunderclap
What struck me most during the workshop, and what I have since revisited in reading his work, is Romanyshyn’s ability to remain faithful to both scholarship and soul. He does not reduce myth to symbol, or psychology to a set of tools or techniques. Instead, he invites us into a relationship with psyche, with image, with story.
aphillipsarts
Jun 23, 20257 min read
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