It gives you access to parts of yourself that live below language. Many people find it helps them process what talk alone hasn't shifted, understand their own patterns more clearly, and build a different relationship with their body and nervous system.

Above all, it offers what any good therapy offers: a relationship where you're not alone with what you carry.

An art therapy session usually unfolds in three stages: meeting, creating, and sharing.

We begin by welcoming each other, giving space for you to share how you are and anything that feels important to bring into the session. Then comes the creation stage, a time for you to work with the art materials available. Finally, we move to sharing, where we reflect together and help you make sense of your experience.

That said, every session is unique and shaped by you. Sometimes there may be no creating at all, we might simply talk. Other times, you may create without feeling the need to share. Both are part of the process, and both are okay.

Yes, art therapy is possible even online. The main difference is that we meet through a video platform such as Teams, and you bring whatever art materials you have available with you.

The length of therapy is unique to each person and depends on your needs and goals. In the first three sessions, we focus on assessment, a space for you to share about yourself and what brought you here, to try the experience of art therapy, and for us to sense together whether we are a good fit.

After this initial period, we decide on the frequency of sessions based on what feels most helpful for you. Weekly sessions are often recommended at the start, as they help to build a trusting relationship and create continuity in the process. Over time, sessions can become less frequent, as you gain new insights, tools, and perspectives to carry with you.

Art therapy may be right for you if you are willing to engage in a psychotherapeutic process and wish to add another form of communication beyond words. Art therapy offers a space where the creative process can help express what language alone cannot. Because it is experiential, art therapy can sometimes help you access important insights more quickly.

No, though I understand why it might sound that way. There's no instruction, no technique to master, no "right" way to do it. You won't be taught how to draw or paint.

What we're doing is using the creative process as a way in, not as a skill to develop. The materials become a way to access what's happening beneath language, in the body, in sensation, in the things you reach for without quite knowing why. What matters isn't what you make. It's what emerges through making it, and what we do with that together.

You don't need any artistic ability or experience. You just need to be willing to try something different.

A friend can listen. Journaling can help you notice a pattern. But neither is trained to see what's happening beneath what you're saying, or to hold what comes up when something old and unprocessed surfaces. This is a relationship built specifically to go there, with someone who has the training to know what to do once you find it, and who isn't inside your life the way a friend is. The art-making adds another layer: it reaches things that don't arrive in words at all, things a conversation or a page in a journal might never touch.

The relationship at the centre is the same — that's what actually does the healing, in art therapy or any other kind. What's different is how we get there. Talk therapy works almost entirely through language. Here, we also work through image, material, movement, metaphor. Sometimes something can be shaped or expressed long before it can be said. The art-making doesn't replace the talking, it opens a door that words alone sometimes can't.

Anxiety often lives in the body before it ever becomes a thought. Art-making gives that a place to go that isn't just "think your way out of it."

It can help externalise what's happening internally, slow down a nervous system that's used to running fast, and create some distance between you and the anxiety so you can get curious about it rather than only being controlled by it.

It means we move at the pace your system can actually handle, not the pace your mind thinks it "should." It means understanding that trauma isn't just a memory, it's something that lives in the body and nervous system, and that reliving it isn't the goal.

You're never pushed to disclose more than feels right, and we pay close attention to safety, pacing, and what your body is telling us, alongside what you're saying.

Yes. This is an area I understand both personally and professionally. I've navigated it in my own life, and I've supported clients working through the specific questions, tensions, and joys that come with non-monogamous relationships.

You won't need to explain the basics or justify your relationship structure here. We can go straight to what's actually going on for you.

No. The art is a tool, not a requirement. Some sessions are mostly conversation; others move into image, material, or movement.

We follow what's actually alive for you in that moment. Sometimes that's making something, sometimes it's talking it through, sometimes it's a mix.

Honestly, you might not know until we've spoken. That's exactly what the free intro call is for, a chance to get a feel for how I work, ask anything you're unsure about, and notice how it feels to be in a conversation with me.

Fit matters more than almost anything else in this work, so take the space to check for it.

That's a completely normal place to start from. Research consistently shows that what makes therapy work isn't mainly the specific method, it's the relationship between you and your therapist.

So it matters less that you arrive knowing exactly what you need, and more that you feel comfortable enough to say what's true for you as we go. From there, I'll do my best to adapt, in approach, in pace, in what we focus on, to what actually fits you.