Creative Conversations
Online Mentoring and Coaching with soul at the center
Creativity | Spirituality | Work & Purpose | Nature
Soul-centered Creative Mentoring
A reflective space supporting deep thinkers, seekers, and creatives.
One to one sessions that nourish, revitalise and focus your vision for life
Hello, I'm Andrew, a Mentor, Visual Artist and Psychotherapist living in Newport, Wales. On this page you can find overview of my one-to-one Mentoring and Coaching sessions. To make an enquiry or ask a question, please use the contact details at the foot of any page on this site.
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To find out about the key differences between Mentoring and my Psychotherapy work, please visit this page.
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My unique approach reflects an ongoing synthesis of personal and professional experience over the past twenty years in the fields of Art, Psychotherapy, Spirituality, Nature, Mental health & Social care services.
An introduction to soul-oriented Mentoring
My mentoring offering is for those seeking depth, meaning, and connection in their lives and creative work. Whether you’re an artist, spiritual seeker, working in the healing professions, or simply someone who wants to live more purposefully, these sessions offer a space for honest reflection and thoughtful conversation. Rooted in both my background as an Art Psychotherapist and as a practicing visual artist, this is not standard coaching for increased productivity — it's care and nourishment for the soul.
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Who is This For?
People are often drawn to this work when they're:
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At a turning point in life or work
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Wanting to reawaken or deepen their creative practice
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Seeking a reflective space to process meaning and purpose
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Looking for support that blends the psychological with the soulful
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In the healing professions and needing nourishing reflective practice
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Spiritually inclined but not looking for dogma or direction
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This could work well for you if you're looking for something more open-ended and reflective than goal-driven coaching, and yet want your time to feel meaningful and intentional.
A Soul-oriented Approach
The mentoring I offer draws on depth psychology, creative process, and transpersonal perspectives. It's supported by over 15 years of experience in mental health and psychotherapy, and a lifelong engagement with art and spirituality.
This is not therapy — but it is deeply informed by the listening skills and psychological insight that come from therapeutic work.
Clients often say that what’s most helpful is having an hour or more of open, thoughtful dialogue with someone who understands both creative work and the search for something more.
Themes We Can Explore
Mentoring can centre around any theme that feels alive for you, including:
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Art & Creativity - not performance-focused but a deepening of process, expression, and voice
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Spirituality & the Transpersonal - finding language and form for the invisible dimensions of your life
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Nature & Soul - drawing guidance and renewal from the natural world
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Work & Purpose - exploring how your daily work connects to deeper meaning and personal integrity
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Reflective Practice - for professionals who who would like to think about their work from the perspectives of spirituality, art & creativity, or nature. It might be that some of these areas are personally important to you, but are not seen as significant for the organisation you work within. I welcome counsellors and therapists, but please note this is not a replacement for your own clinical supervision. ​​
Not Therapy—But Informed By It
This mentoring work is separate from my HCPC-registered Art Psychotherapy practice. It is not designed to treat mental health conditions or provide psychological care. However, I bring with me the same values: deep listening, curiosity, and a respect for the complexity of each individual.
You might think of it as a place for thoughtful, soulful companionship rather than treatment.
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👉 Visit this page for full information on the differences between mentoring and psychotherapy, to help decide which is the right choice for you.
A Shared Perspective
Because this work depends on a good fit, it's important that we share some common ground. If you’re drawn to creative process, depth psychology (especially Jungian or Transpersonal thought), spiritual inquiry, or the healing power of nature — then this may be the kind of space that supports you best. This doesn't mean we need to share all the same views, opinions, or tastes, but that there is an underlying sense of living within a story greater than the individual human self.
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You might find it helpful to visit the About Me page to get a feel for my own background and see if anything resonates.
Practicalities and Pricing
All sessions take place online. I work with people across the UK and internationally.
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Initial meeting (1 hour)
£45 / $65
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Further sessions
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£45 / $65 per 1-hour session
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£60 / $85 per 1.5-hour session​
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Discounted block bookings (paid in advance)
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4 × 1-hour sessions: £160 / $215
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4 × 1.5-hour sessions: £220 / $295​
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You can also visit the Prices & Availability page for full details.
Taking The Next Steps
If this sounds like the kind of space you're looking for, feel free to get in touch to book an initial meeting or ask any questions. You can contact me via the form or email address at the foot of any page on this site.
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Our work together can take a number of different forms.
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A single 'one-off' meeting
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Book individual sessions 'as and when' you need them
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Create a bespoke arrangement that offers greater regularity and consistency.
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The initial session can help you get a feel for whether the tone and focus of the work is right for you, and there is no pressure to plan further meetings.
We could 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 feel a deep certainty about the way, we might recognise challenging terrain ahead and fear to tread it. Alluding to the necessity for action in transforming our lives, we can note that the path is not made only by thinking or dreaming.
As a way forward, we might learn to be cautious of prematurely seeking answers, and place more emphasis instead upon finding and nurturing our most inspiring questions to live by — which often make themselves known to us through images, visions, dreams, ideas, passions, and sometimes puzzles — that seem to come from the very core of our being.
Questions like this may feel part gift, and part burden to carry. What we are being tasked with is to understand how the kind of answer required of us is about meeting these questions and visions with our most wholehearted attempts to give them expression.
A communicative and relational response that deepens and expands upon the mystery, bringing them to life. In this way we can move into new and creative ways of travelling our respective paths, living more fully with both ourselves and others as we go.
The deepest questions we are presented with in life are there to be lived rather than solved.
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To borrow from a poem (Sometimes) by David Whyte;
"Questions that can make or unmake a life.
Questions that have waited patiently for you.
Questions that have no right to go away." ​
Walking your path. The lifelong journey of
becoming who you are
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“Traveler there is no path. The path is made by walking.”
