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.

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

Online sessions for Art Psychotherapy or soul-centered Mentoring can work well for many people, as an alternative to in person meetings.

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.

At The Roots of Silence I'm delighted that this painting has been selected for the inaugural exhibition at Boleskine House, overlooking Loch Ness in Scotland. What Endures 5th April - 21st June 2026 The picture is available, but this is not a 'selling' exhibition. Please contact me with enquiries. Boleskine is a place steeped in local history, as well as more widely known and mysterious associations with the rich tapestry of occultism in Britain during the late 19th and 20th

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 spa

I'm delighted to have this artwork on the RSA walls at the start of this year. One of my personal favourites from the past couple of years. Tap the poster to visit the SSA website. Image size: 73 x 50 cm Framed size: 85 x 62 x 3 cm (approx) 2024 This piece was sold at the exhibition. Available work can be found in in my website shop . The Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition showcases a range of work from its membership and also non-members, you will find painting a

Ithell Colquhoun’s work stands at the crossroads of art, magic, and social reform. Rooted in landscape, myth, and the living intelligence of matter, her paintings and writings speak powerfully to contemporary longings for depth, enchantment, and ecological relationship.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This year the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics celebrates its 30th anniversary with this edition of Stravaig. I am delighted to have two recent works published in the new edition of their journal Stravaig. There they find themselves in the very good company of artwork, poetry, and essays from members of the Geopoetics community. I joined the organisation following the 2017 conference held on Seil, an island off the west coast of Scotland which is separated from the mainland by

What if the ecological crisis is not only environmental, but spiritual? A therapist and artist reflects on Spiritual Ecology and the sacred call of the Earth.

The work of Anselm Keifer has been an inspiration to my own since I first began to create visual art. This superb exhibition of varied pieces from earlier in his career brought me in touch with the work in a new way, and also evoked memories of perhaps my most significant encounter with an artwork to date. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England Anselm Keifer — Urd, Werdandi, Suld (Die Nornen), (The Norns), 1981 - Oil on canvas About the exhibition Anselm Kiefer: Early Works is a

I'm pleased to present my first finished works of 2025. In pastel and ink on paper, I have sought to evoke themes of thresholds, the sublime, and sentience of land and sea.   Each piece is available directly from me, and the images here are linked to the webstore. Prices shown are inclusive of shipping to UK addresses, and payment can be made in installments by selecting that option at the checkout. International buyers, please ask me for a quote.   You are very welcome to co

Patrick Harpur's The Philosopher's Secret Fire explores a forgotten understanding of imagination. Not fantasy or invention, but a living realm where myth, psyche, and world meet. This article reflects on imagination in psychotherapy, creative practice, and the imaginal dimension of reality.

Last week I visited the west country, during a spell of unusually prolonged warm and sunny weather for the British Isles during spring. Here are some of the places that drew my attention. The Power Of Dartmoor The granite Tors of Dartmoor. I found these places profoundly strange and powerful, with the unusual forms of rock that occupy the peaks and have prominence over the land for many surrounding miles. Shaped by millenia of glacial activity and weathering, some of them app

I offer both Art Psychotherapy, and Mentoring / Coaching sessions. There are many similarities and overlaps, for a start, in all my work with people I am interested in the life of the soul, and how difficulties or challenges can be guides and openings to depth, meaning, and transformation. Or in other words, the lifelong task of becoming yourself. However, Mentoring and Psychotherapy are not the same thing, and it is important to understand how they differ. There are many dif

"If there is ever to be any real peace on earth, all people need to relearn and reestablish the now diminished and hidden arts of Grief and Praise, for one without the other is not possible." "Life change rituals should accompany every stage of life and anticipate people's full expression of grief. For this reason natural culture doesn't need to address life changes with therapy because they anticipate these changes and have a place for the grief. These rituals of life change