Why Art Therapy?
Art Therapy is for children, teenagers, and adults seeking greater balance, emotional support, self-understanding, or personal growth. Sessions can support individuals through a wide range of life experiences, challenges, and therapeutic goals.
No prior experience making art is needed.
Art Therapy Services
For therapy to be successful, it is important that you are aware of your own healing process. This way, you have the tools to implement healing, maintain balance in daily life, and continue on the same path after your therapeutic process has ended. By the term “successful,” it is meant that the focus is on feeling more in balance rather than on a measurable result.
Who is Art Therapy for
Art Therapy for Children
Children overflow with creativity and have a rich inner world. Through art, they can express feelings, memories, and thoughts that are often difficult to put into words. Art Therapy offers a deeper insight into a child’s inner experience, helping parents and caregivers better understand what may be going on beneath the surface.
The goal is always to support greater happiness, balance, and emotional well-being. During Art Therapy, children are simply given the time and space to be themselves.
Art Therapy is versatile and suitable for any child physically able to hold a pencil or paintbrush. Most children naturally enjoy making art, exploring materials, techniques, and colours – did you know that colours are experienced even more intensely by children than by adults?
Art Therapy for Adults
Reconnecting with your creativity can be deeply joyful — art has a way of helping us feel connected, balanced, and alive. When we are out of balance, we often experience it both physically and emotionally. Art Therapy offers a gentle and creative path towards wellbeing, self-understanding, and healing.
Colours and shapes speak a language the unconscious naturally understands, meaning words are not always necessary. Through the creative process, you are invited to simply be as you are. This creates space to accept your current situation, reflect on it, and gradually move towards change and healing in your own way. Art exercises can bring relaxation, clarity, and a shift in perspective, with effects that continue beyond the session itself.
Each session is tailored to your individual needs, using materials and methods that best support your therapeutic goals — whether that is increasing vitality, finding calm, processing emotions, coping with life events, or experiencing a greater sense of connection.
Creative Workshops & Professional Consultations
How can creativity, reflection, and connection support wellbeing within your organisation?
Experience-based learning often creates a far greater impact than traditional theoretical training. Through the versatility of art exercises, team-building sessions, workshops, and events can be tailored to your company’s needs, offering your team a fresh perspective in a creative and engaging way.
For wellness-focused businesses, art can also become a unique addition to your existing wellness programme. Relaxation comes naturally through the creative process, while the deeper meaning behind art allows themes such as connection, balance, reflection, and emotional wellbeing to be explored in an accessible way.
Each programme is tailor-made to suit your company culture, goals, and target audience. The process begins with an intake session to better understand your needs, followed by a personalised proposal designed to create a meaningful and memorable experience for your team or customers.
Areas of Support
Art Therapy can be used as a complementary therapeutic support alongside medical or psychological care.
Medical/Psychological
- Addiction
- Anxiety & Phobias
- Asthma
- Burn Out
- Cancer
- Depression & Mood Swings
- High Blood Pressure
- Migraines
- Parkinson's
- Stroke
Children
- Adoption
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Bullying
- Learning Disabilities
- Parent Separation/Family Dynamics
- Tension
- Trauma
Other Concerns
- Anger Management
- Grief & Loss
- Marriage/Relationship Issues
- Parenting Struggles
- Poor Body Image & Dysmorphia
- Stress & Feeling Overwhelmed
- Support Through Pregnancy
Art Therapy Process
Phase 1 - Orientation
For anyone interested in starting with Art Therapy the orientation phase is online and/ or in person.
Any question can be asked via email and/or via a 15 min Zoom consultation free of charge.
The first in-person session is an opportunity to honestly decide if you would like to work together. Being comfortable with your therapist is vital to building a relationship where you feel safe.
Phase 2 - Diagnostic
We start with free work, which means you are invited to paint, draw and do clay modelling without any specific goal other than to express yourself. The free work is interpreted via a specific method, which focuses purely on what the free work reveals.
The goals of the therapy will be worked out together. A therapeutic plan is made by the therapist based on the free work interpretation, in combination with the discussed goals and other relevant information.
Phase 3 - Therapeutic Art Exercises
You will be guided through the therapeutic art exercises step by step in a safe and supportive environment. Each exercise is carefully selected to support your individual therapeutic goals and personal process.
The therapeutic plan may evolve over time, as new goals, experiences, or needs can arise throughout the process.
Together, we continuously reflect on how the therapy is affecting you and adapt the sessions in a way that best supports your growth, well-being, and healing.
Phase 4 - Conclusion
In this phase, we might decide to wrap up the process or pause. It is important that the therapeutic experience feels well-rounded and fulfilling. We discuss how this process has been for you, and we summarise how we feel we are with our goals and wishes.
Upon request, a report can be written for other health practitioners. All of the artworks are yours to take home with you.
Client Reflections
“My son has been attending art therapy with Kat; he really enjoys it, and I have seen the benefit within him. In his own words the classes make him “more energetic, joyful and calm”, who could ask for more than that!”
“Kat is an exceptional Art therapist and Art workshop facilitator. She creates a safe, supportive environment that encourages genuine self-expression and emotional exploration through Art. She introduced a series of thoughtfully designed exercises that allowed us to connect with emotions in a creative way. The exercises were therapeutic and inspiring. I sincerely recommend Kat’s services to anyone or any company seeking personal growth, emotional healing, and self-discovery.”
“As a transgender woman who transitioned in her mid twenties, someone who had to navigate the grief of what felt like insurmountable losses from this decision to choose myself, I came upon a point where I felt lost.
I had never heard of art therapy, but the notion of it piqued my interest. So I gave her services a chance, and wow, I could not be more grateful to both her and myself.
Art therapy helped me pour out so many feelings in such a short span of time, and helped me to understand how to cope with my thoughts and feelings. Things in my life I never would have thought possible to remedy, I was now given the tools to fix.
Kat showed me coping mechanisms to help me ground myself whenever things feel heavy, and helped me find the strength within myself that was once brokenness. I cannot thank her enough for her help then, and her continued help now. I highly recommend her services.”
Find out more
If you are considering art therapy and would like to learn more, please visit the Frequently Asked Questions page for information on sessions, the therapeutic process, and how art therapy can support children and adults.
If you would like to arrange a meeting or discuss how art therapy may support you, feel free to get in touch.