Youth Arts & Health Trust

10/11/2025

Sami, our Clinical Lead, and Zara, one of our Trustees talking on today about the impact of arts therapy for children and young people and also of the huge difference has made in helping us provide our service. Listen here :)

Sincerely celebrating the difference is making for our arts therapy service for children and young people today. Sami our Clinical Lead, and Zara one of our Trustees interviewed for this morning, giving their moving and heartfelt reflections. https://lnkd.in/g_bN78qY #...

25/10/2025

Interested in arts therapy for someone you know? Incase you missed it and fancy a listen. Our interview on BBC Radio Devon which talks about our history and what the arts psychotherapies are all about. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0m2zgdk

Laura Blatherwick describes how creativity helps to change the lives of local families

22/10/2025

An interview with our Founder/Director in University of Exeter Alumni News this month. We're keen to let University students and their parents/carers know we are here and offer arts psychotherapies for those up to 25 and can help with anxiety, depression, stress, isolation and the pressures of university life.

Alumna Laura Blatherwick (Drama, 2002) is an arts therapist and charity director of the Youth Arts and Health Trust (YAHT) and today, Friday 10 October - World Mental Health Day – the Trust is relaunching.

09/10/2025

A parent asked us today "how do I explain what arts therapy is to my child?". Here's a link to our website and a video we made to help with this.

Similar to counselling or other kinds of psychotherapy, arts therapy can help people to improve their mental health and wellbeing. People often come to arts therapy because they want to feel better in themselves and more confident about their next steps in life. This might be because of depression o...

30/09/2025

What exactly is arts therapy? We get asked this frequently as you would expect. One of the strong advantages of an arts therapy approach is the containing aspect of the arts medium when experienced in a safe and supportive therapeutic relationship. Clients can proceed at their own pace using the creative process as a means of personal expression, identifying and connecting emotions and making sense of experiences that are hard to say in words. Arts Therapists are qualified to MA level and registered with the HCPC and/or other professional bodies. Drop us a message to find out more

26/09/2025

An honour to be handed this Highly Commended Award last night on behalf of the Youth Arts & Health Trust arts therapy team and to be part of this fabulous event celebrating so many groups and individuals who make a difference in their communities. Congrats to all the nominees, finalists and winners!

22/09/2025

Super excited to see our signs going up in Exeter Library and our new arts therapy rooms taking shape :)

16/09/2025

We're excited to be finalists in this year's BBC Make A Difference awards and the awards ceremony next week! We'll be raising a glass to all the children, young people and families we have known since 2016!

10/08/2025

A gentle reminder💕 //

28/07/2025

Looks fab and fully funded! The Exeter Phoenix are looking for young people 18-30, musicians, sound engineers, and local activists who would be interested in learning new skills and amplifying the climate message through music. At the end of the projects participants who have completed the course will receive a certificate of completion from Music and Sonic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University.

The workshops will take place on Monday evenings at Exeter Phoenix on 29th September, 6th October, 20th October and 17th November.

EarthSonic Local EarthSonic Local is a project partnering with eight arts venues across England. We are recruiting young people aged 18-30 to take part in the following workshops:Climate and biodiversityRecording and sampling nature soundsArchiving Songwriting and music making workshopThe project i...