Creative Counselling, Person-Centred Expressive Arts Therapy, Meditation and Mindfulness-Based Therapy, Sand Tray Therapy
Sometimes, what we feel lives beyond language. We may know something is bubbling up inside, feels 'off' or wrong or different - a heaviness, tension, or ache inside - but can't quite explain it.
Creative Counselling, Expressive Arts and Sand Tray Therapy offer ways to explore your inner world through image, movement, colour, and symbol - giving form to what has been hidden, and voice to what has been silent or confusing.
This is where healing begins, not in analysis, but in expression.
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My work draws on Person-Centred Expressive Arts Therapy (PCEAT), developed by Natalie Rogers - daughter of person-centred psychotherapist Carl Rogers.
As Natalie Rogers wrote:
"When the creative connection is encouraged, the client discovers a natural ability to move toward wholeness"
Sand Tray Therapy allows us to work symbolically with the unconscious - using miniature figures and landscapes in sand to explore emotions, relationships and inner conflicts safely and indirectly.
Together, these approaches provide a grounded, research-informed framework for trauma integration and emotional healing.
In a session, we might:
Paint, draw or collage - alllowing imagery to lead where words cannot.
Use breath, sound or meditation to connect to, express, release and calm the body
Create a symbolic scene in the sand tray - to explore your inner world through metaphor and story
Use natural objects, found materials, or creative journalling to deepen reflection and meaning
You do not need to be 'artistic' The focus is on process, not product - what emerges in colour, shape and symbol often reveals insight that talking alone cannot reach.
Research into expressive arts therapy shows that creative and sensory processess can:
reduce stress and anxiety through sensory regulation
support trauma integration and nervous system balance
encourage self-expression and insight
build confidence and emotional regulation and resilience
strengthen mind-body connection, presence and cognitive abilities
Creativity helps us to access the body's wisdom and restore the natural flow of emotion and energy.
In creative counselling and sand tray therapy, symbols carry both a personal and collective meaning. As Jung observed, "The symbol is the best possible expression for something unknown"
Working symbolically allows you to explore feelings that may not yet have words - in a safe, embodied and non-verbal way that can support both trauma processing and emotional release.