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.

I understand there can be many reasons why someone would be hesitant, and find it difficult to begin psychotherapy. If you experience any of these, or other similar examples, I encourage you to let me know. It doesn't necessarily mean we can't work together or that therapy isn't for you. In fact, worries of this kind can be a worthy starting point, and often prove important and valuable to explore. There are often multiple and very personal reasons behind any of the issues b

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.

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.

"Traveller there is no path. The path is made by walking." We might hear this excerpt from a poem by Antonio Machado in relation to feeling stuck, alone, or lost. These lines suggest that if there is a path ahead which seems clear and well-trodden (i.e. ‘easy’) then perhaps it is not your own path that you are walking. Even if we experience a deep certainty about the way, we might recognise challenging terrain ahead and fear to tread it. Alluding to the necessity for active p

"If explanation is the self-cure for curiosity, we have a lot of explaining to stop doing; if desire is the refuge from wide-angled attention, we have a lot of wanting to relinquish." Attention is something we give and receive, and is in turns needed, wanted, and feared in its various forms. In psychotherapy we notice that a symptom, a state of mind, is something that claims our attention in a particular way, and as Adam Phillips suggests, psychoanalysis (and by extension I a

This is the opening sentence of Thomas Moore's prologue. I thought that this book would make a good first post as I begin to describe some of the influences and inspirations for my work. This copy has been with me for the best part of twenty years, and it was one of the first 'psychology' books I owned. It is a little rough around the edges now, but I think Hillman would approve. He valued evidence of age, lines on a face, signs that life has been lived. I remember not having

The First Encounter I discovered the work of Carl Jung during my mid-late teens, when I plucked this text from a shelf in a local book shop. Having no idea at the time who this man was, or about psychoanalysis, I imagine I was attracted by the title. A Timely Passage in a Culture of Speed I find this following passage fascinating today, in a world where we must all be ever quicker to 'know'. Alluding to a way of working that seeks not to impinge upon the patient/client/analys