Creative Arts Therapy - Specialist in trauma based mental health issues

06/01/2022

If you are a therapist and interested in learning about body-mind trauma focussed therapy, Lifespan Integration, you can find out more by attending this short CPD.

75 minutes CPD for Therapists on the theory of using timelines to clear trauma, drawing on the modality of Lifespan Integration (LI) Therapy

15/07/2021

I'm finding I'm not often posting on this page because of over screen use but occasionally I come across something that is too important to not share. This short news documentary explains the inequality BAME women have in accessing mental health support. Please do consider sharing it on, as communication is key to movement towards a less racist society.

Black women are more likely than white women to experience common mental health problems.

25/04/2021

Interesting article summarising the begiinings of a shift in mainstream therapy training and practice. Glad to see our living environment is becoming incorporated in practioner's thinking.

Many psychologists say they feel unequipped to handle a growing number of patients despairing over the state of the planet. A new contingent of mental health professionals aims to fix that

21/02/2021

If anyone is interested in joining an outdoor supervision group for nature-based practitioners there are spaces available from April onwards. Please feel free to click here for more info and do get in touch if you would like to join us:

outdoor creative supervision group

22/12/2020

Wishing everyone a peaceful, nourishing and restful time this winter. Let's look after ourselves and each other. I'll be back in the outdoor (and online) offices from Monday 4th January 2021.

11/11/2020

This is the other side of the work that I do

I'm delighted to be bringing Into the Heartwood further into the light. This part of my work has been emerging over the last year and a half, offering workshops to Helping Professionals with nature as the tool to support resourcing and replenishing.

As a nature-based therapist and supervisor, my interest is on the quality of the nature relationship that gets built in when we attune, in an intentional (and creative) way, to nature on a regular basis.

Having a felt sense of being a part of the natural world gives us our 'nature relatedness'.

Developing our experience of feeling a greater self-connection in nature, and to nature, allows us to feel cared for by nature and in turn deepens our love of our natural environment. This interconnection has a lot to offer our mental and emotional health as well as the urgent and growing need to consider how we as humans live in the world.

If you, like me, are interested in how Intentional Nature Experiencing through creativity supports people and nature alike, do get in touch to request to be added to the mailing list.

22/10/2020

Lifespan Integration therapists are celebrating brand new research published yesterday, evidencing the efficacy of the LI method! In this Swedish research, it shows how LI can greatly reduce the PTSD symptoms of people who have experienced a single sexual assault in one session.

Sexual abuse is a crime with devastating health consequences. Accessible, acceptable and affordable treatment of PTSD after sexual abuse is important. In this p...

10/10/2020

What a privilege to support helping professionals to self-resource through nature connection and creativity. Thanks to Kirsty Weedon for being a fab co-facilitator on the Nature-Awakening workshop today!

08/10/2020

Are you a care or helping professional? We have two spaces available on the Nature Awakening workshop on Saturday. For more information go to http://www.creativeartstherapy.co.uk/nature-awakening-workshops.html If you want to join us get in touch.

What has been said about this workshop.. "The workshop was wonderful experience for me and I took a lot from it. Natasha and Kirsty facilitated the process in a creative, supportive and open way. The...

10/09/2020

There are two spaces available for this new outdoor supervision group for established practitioners who are either starting to work outdoors or already do so. For more information please contact me at natasha@creativeartstherapy.co.uk with a view to starting at the end of September

A new Creative Supervision Group for Nature-based Therapists and Counsellors This new supervision group is open to counsellors and therapists who are embarking on, or who are already working...